IF - strong

The Illustration Friday word this week was strong. I am very lucky to have a mother that loved poetry. One of the poems she learn me when I was a child was a one called "the strongest man in the world". Loosely translated it would go like this:

The strongest man in the world
The strongest man in the world;
can carry a hippo in his teeth,
and lifting a tram of the rail,
and simultaneously clap his hands.

But set a flower on a small straw,
and colour the vast sky blue,
and give little Anne a milk tooth,
that can he not, the strongest man!

Medium used: Pencil and Yanka watercolours.

EDM # 6 - favorite well-loved object

This object is a wooden bowl, it is actually my grandmothers, it sits on her living room table and is filled with small paper pieces, manna-corn, on them is bible verses or to be more correct it says where to look up the bible verses. My grandmother use to draw one piece for everyone that was visiting and then read the verse before the went home. The faint letters on the bowl says "in memory of the peace, Narvik, 1945" As long as I can remember the bowl and the manna-corn has had the same colour tones always looked well used. This is me trying to capture a memory of my grandmother reading the bible verses to us before we left for the road home.



Medium used: watercolour pencils and colouring pencil.