Illustration Friday: Night
This is my first attempt to post something for Illustration Friday, so bear with me! :-) I started drawing this little girl in her nightgown, and when I drew the window, I put a whole "night" scene behind it with a moon and stars. But I thought that was too obvious, so as a joke, I put a sun. It turned into this picture of a girl that lost her tooth and wants to go to bed so she can get her toothfairy money. (I wish I had a better scanner!)

For fun last night I just colored it with crayola colored pencils, and I threw together this poem to tell the story:
Alrighty, Mom, I'm ready for bed
I did all of the things that you had said
I brushed my teeth and combed my hair
I grabbed my favorite teddy bear
I put on my nightgown, slippers and hat
I'll betcha you thought I'd forget about that
I washed my face, I got a drink
I didn't even make a mess of the sink
And most important, just like I should
I tucked my tooth under my pillow real good
So will you come please, and tuck me in soon
Whaddaya mean I can't go to sleep yet at noon?
Thanks for looking!! :-)

For fun last night I just colored it with crayola colored pencils, and I threw together this poem to tell the story:
Alrighty, Mom, I'm ready for bed
I did all of the things that you had said
I brushed my teeth and combed my hair
I grabbed my favorite teddy bear
I put on my nightgown, slippers and hat
I'll betcha you thought I'd forget about that
I washed my face, I got a drink
I didn't even make a mess of the sink
And most important, just like I should
I tucked my tooth under my pillow real good
So will you come please, and tuck me in soon
Whaddaya mean I can't go to sleep yet at noon?
Thanks for looking!! :-)


4 Comments:
I think this is a great take on "night" and the poem is hillarious!
I haven't posted anything about Illustration Friday yet, but it's motivated me to finally kick off a similar idea I had - for creative writing - www.thedailysnippet.com
What I really like about your post is how much more gets told through the background story; I felt a bit like that about my first stab at an "under 20 words" piece of poetry for The Daily Snippet.
hahaha - and i've only just now read your blog name and description - oh boy do i relate!
Chris.
Thanks for the chuckle. Cute illo.
Yay!
Too bad for Canucks, we changed our one- and two-dollar bills to coins after I lost all my teeth. Bogus. All I got were...quarters.
That's just precious! What a great little poem! - too funny!! You should send that around for a kid's magazine or something! Cute illustration too!
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