illustration friday: mischief

I was tempted to just put up a picture of my boys for this week's Illustration Friday theme. Lord knows those two can be mischief personified. Instead I worked up another altered photo, because well, they're just fun to do.



I'm sure many a mom has seen that little lightbulb going off above their little boy's head. Generally I just sit and wait to see what the lightbulb brings. There are, of course, occasions when I must intervene for phalanges and eyeballs' sake. But for the most part I let them work out the process. It makes me giddy to watch them put their ideas to work. The successes are twice as exciting for me and the failures are as precious to me as they are disappointing to my boys.

I wish I knew who took this photo because it is really gorgeous; balanced just so. The dogs and frog are from different Dover Publication collections. The rickrack and the Dresden fish are just scanned in and shrunk down. The banner is scanned in from an ephemera pack and then colored and lettered it in PSP.