We are all frogs in the pond of life

IF "ELECTRICITY"

2008-05-13T06:12:00.000-07:00

Never plug your finger to the power socket!

IF "SAVE"

2008-04-08T06:14:00.001-07:00

Who's gonna save our hero?

IF "HOMAGE"

2008-03-31T03:28:00.001-07:00

Homage to Tim Burton and to Love. This was an illustration that I did a few years ago based on the movie poster and used it as our wedding invitation (I hope I don't get sued or anything-it was for a good reason!). Luckily for me my wife shares my admiration for Tim Burton's work and thank god she said 'YES'...it would be lonely on top of that cliff otherwise...

IF "PET PEEVES"

2008-03-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

Major, major, MAJOR pet peeve...I hate it when it happens...

IF "HEAVY"

2008-03-19T16:51:00.001-07:00

(Yannis added some light& shadow)

(my original illo)

Heavy is the head that wears the crown...(and the hand that wields the brush...)

IF "GARDEN"

2008-03-11T16:19:00.000-07:00

You all know them and love them, they are the garden-gnomes...but take a look at Yannis' garden and you will find out that there are HELL-GNOMES too !!

For Yannis!

IF "LEAP"

2008-03-04T13:35:00.001-08:00

Leap of Faith

IF "MULTIPLE"

2008-02-28T15:50:00.001-08:00

Multiple spikes add up to a hedgehog!

IF "THEORY"

2008-02-19T04:47:00.000-08:00

In theory, everything looks easy...

IF "CHOOSE"

2008-02-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

We all feel that way once in a while...

IF "BLANKET"

2008-02-04T14:17:00.000-08:00

Underneath a blanket of snow, the earth dreams of Spring...

IF "Tales and Legends"

2008-01-26T12:18:00.001-08:00

Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf!

IF "PLAIN"

2008-01-24T01:27:00.000-08:00

A plain illo of a kid playin' with a plane...
Nothing fancy this week.
;-)

IF "STITCH"

2008-01-14T04:51:00.000-08:00

I used a photo reference of a beautiful woman holding a baby from the web for this picture. And I added the stitch. I think some stitches make us look even more beautiful...

IF "100%"

2008-01-08T05:32:00.001-08:00

"Are you sure you can take the cat?" asked Kenzie
"100% Sure !" replied Saxon...

To all of you mice out there who know how to beat the cats...(100% certainty and a BIG sword!)
(Kenzie and Saxon are charactres from the MAGNIFICENT comic book MOUSE GUARD...seek it out, it's a delight!)

IF "GROW"

2007-10-23T06:09:00.001-07:00

A quick illo of baby frogs dreaming of growing up!

EL FREGO - IF "EXTREMES"

2007-10-12T04:58:00.000-07:00

My friend Yannis the other day suggested over coffee that we should do an illo about EL GRECO. So taking up his challenge and combining a portrait of the great master with the portrait of a great frog, voila ! I present you, EL FREGO !!!

Enjoy !

p.s

(I really hate painting neck collars, :-p)

p.s 2

I completed this one on Friday noon while the topic on IF was still "Open". Then I saw the topic for this week is "EXTREMES"...So , here is my Extreme Portrait ! Two birds with one stone...and one lazy frog...;-)

IF "OPEN"

2007-10-07T04:32:00.000-07:00

Open Piano. Open Your Wings. Open Your Mind. This one is for JimB. Check out his curious gallery and stare at the void !

IF "The Blues"

2007-10-01T14:14:00.000-07:00

This week the frog got the blues. While he sobers up, listen to the sax...

IF "JUGGLE"

2007-09-26T12:17:00.000-07:00

Completing our little illo-switch, this week's illo is done by my friend Vaggelis while I did the one in Yannis' blog. Thank you mates, let's do it again sometime soon...;-)

IF "WEDDING"

2007-09-18T14:04:00.000-07:00

For this week's topic my good friend Yannis created this illo. I created the one posted in Vaggelis' blog. So drop by their blogs too and let your wedding wisdom shine !

Wedding is normally the first step towards family but some frogs like to stay bachelors and enjoy their flies all by themselves...No Frog Is An Island, but then again some don't like company on theirs..enjoy...

IF "MOMENTUM"

2007-09-11T03:01:00.001-07:00

When a Fly gains momentum, watch where you put your tongue...

IF "ALPHABETS"

2007-09-03T02:54:00.000-07:00

The FLY Ministry of Education decided that the best way to teach the young Flies of the ENEMY that lurks in the ponds was via an alphabet that they must learn by heart. Let's hope it will help those little flies to survive...;-p

IF "VISITORS"

2007-08-29T05:29:00.000-07:00

late night visitor...wanna hitch a ride?

IF 'CAPTAIN'

2007-08-23T15:14:00.001-07:00

O Captain, my Captain...

Dead Flies Society !!!

This was my wife's idea. It really pays up to be married to someone who doesn't watch only Jackie Chan movies, hehehe...I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years...

It is dedicated to Vaggelis. We were his flies and he was our Captain...(the poem though had roses in it...8ymasai kapetanie?)

IF 'EMERGENCY'

2007-08-23T15:07:00.000-07:00

This one is for Simos for two reasons : a) Although he lives in a parallel universe, different from the one that the rest of the human race lives, where time & space don't have the same meaning as ours, he is always there, eventually, in case of an emergency when you need a friend and b) he as much a comic-book geek as I am (but I don't keep mine in plastic bags with little 'kill you if you touch it' notes)...;-p

So, really, in case of an emergency, who you gonna call?

IF "MISSING"

2007-08-05T13:52:00.001-07:00

As of today, Monday the 6th of August 2007, the FROG is declared MISSING for the rest of the summer...We will be back soon...enjoy your vacations, wherever you are, whoever you are, with whoever you want... ;-)

IF 'MOON'

2007-07-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

This one is for the very talented & lovely lady called Marta (a.k.a Focus_ret) with the promise that I will not depart from my usual 'froggy' style again... ;-p

IF 'POEM'

2007-07-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

Our frog is not that green, but he's the cuttest frog that's ever been
He is still small but not that short, he likes to play in his pond
He eats no flies, I tell no lies, to be his friend, just give him bread
He walks on four, he doesn't leap, he wipes the floor, he has two teeth
He is not shy, he smiles to all (he smiles to our cat, she doesn't smile back!)
He tries to stand, he learned to land, his eyes ask 'why' when he takes a fall
He grabs and holds and screams and kicks, but only if you try to take what he thinks it's his
'The world is your oyster', it's true what they say and into his mouth goes everything in his way
He is our prince, he didn't turn to one with a kiss, but what the heck, we give him plenty of these
To be a parent, well, it's not that bad and frankly we can't wait to hear him saying 'mom' and 'dad'!
;-p

IF "DISCOVERY"

2007-07-15T15:15:00.000-07:00

Finally, Henry and Milton, the two fly-archaeologists discovered evidence for the tong'-monst'r that caused the fall of the Fly Empire...

IF "GEEKY 2"

2007-07-09T05:37:00.001-07:00

It takes one hell of a geeky frog to build that kind of a trap !

This was based on an idea that my friend Yiannis had. It is dedicated to his lovely wife Nadia.

IF "GEEKY 1"

2007-07-09T05:32:00.000-07:00

Studying frogs through magnifying/distortion glass is nerdy, but maintaining a blog about frogs, well that has to be geeky....

Dedicated to all the IllustrationFriday-geeks out there...

IF "TWIST"

2007-06-30T14:29:00.001-07:00

sometimes things look good, but then they take a nasty twist...

IF 'CAMOUFLAGE'

2007-06-26T03:27:00.000-07:00

you have to beat them in their own game...

IF "REJECTION"

2007-06-19T03:31:00.000-07:00

rejection is a cruel thing but then again, so is love...

IF "SUIT"

2007-06-11T15:22:00.000-07:00

This is for Yannis who introduced me to IF and because his work is always an inspiration. If u can do forests let's see if I can do frogs...;-p

SUIT : one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided...same color

The reign of the FROGS...