Diane Clancy’s Art Blog

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Foggy. This one is right up my alley … Here is the bubble garden in fog and mist. This is what foggy looks like! And I feel pretty foggy today because I am on overload. Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Foggy, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Litter / Bug. This is my entry for Litter & Bug. This is humankind carreening through space, littering as we go … or is it each of us being thoughtless in a daily way as we litter the planet with our overuse of resources. Here are the entries for last week’s Work / Book. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Litter Bug, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. Right now there is a post about Preniptutuals and dog weddings - check it out!  This is those great photos with the bears.  There is a funny story about a bear today. Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see their blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Here is a wonderful post about Polar Bears being designated endangered - check it out! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate!

Alyssa in Butterflies, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Sour. Lemons certainly ARE sour - at least to most people! This is what sour looks like! And I feel pretty sour today because I am very sick … with a Crohn’s Disease flare-up .. so this is short and sweet, rather short and sour. Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Sour, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Work / Book. This is my entry for Work & Book.  I got inspired by some of the other entries.  First I was going to just make a bubblescape since I was WORKing on my Mac PowerBOOK.  But then someone else inspired me to use one of Susan’s pictures of my working at the computer … ok - here is your picture of me you have been asking for!!!  You can go bug Susan and tell her that you want to see another of her pictures of my working on the computer … you can urge her to still join in for this entry! Here are the entries for last week’s Round / Square. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Diane at Computer, Photography © Susan Elkin

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Fierce. One of the fiercest emotions in the world is a mother’s sense of protection toward her little ones - especially against a threat. Here the little ones are basking and glowing in mother’s love as the mother is fiercely all geared up to protect her little ones against this menacing bubble. Perceived or real, most mothers will protect at all costs!! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Fierce, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. Right now there is a post about Preniptutuals and dog weddings - check it out!  This is thosegreat photos with the bears.  Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see their blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Here is a wonderful post about Polar Bears being designated endangered - check it out! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate!

Bucky in Butterflies, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Round / Square. This is my entry for Round & Square. It is pretty basic - but I think it does the job. It seems sort of fun … I think it came out very pretty. It actually took quite awhile to do to find patterns that would show off the square shape well. Here are the entries for last week’s Parallel / Perdincular. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Round & Square At Night, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Round / Square. This is my entry for Round & Square. It is pretty basic - but I think it does the job. It seems sort of fun … I think it came out very pretty. It actually took quite awhile to do to find patterns that would show off the square shape well. Here are the entries for last week’s Parallel / Perdincular. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Round & Square, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Punchline. Most us have felt like the Punchline at times … surely that little fellow does … she surely does feel smaller than everyone else after she was the Punchline. Guess we all need to pay a little more attention to ourselves and others - making sure we don’t unkindly make others the Punchline and reaching out to others!! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Punchline, Digital © Diane Clancy

Punchline

It seemed like such good fun

Yet why does the Punchline

Feel so small?

Some people can roll

With being the Punchline

But many collapse inside …

As we tease others,

Let’s try to make sure

They are in on the joke

That it is laughing With 

Not laughing At

Otherwise, the Punchline

Can be 

Cruel.

Most of us would

Never deliberately

Be cruel ~ 

So let’s pay attention

And choose to 

Be kind … 

We can have fun

Together!!

Then the joke can be

The  Punchline

Not the

Person.

~ Diane Clancy