There is nothing like sitting in a rocking chair, rocking back and forth, it’s gentle creaking, and a breezy spring air flows in your window, gently lifting the curtains in your baby’s room.
The curtains lightly swinging in the breeze, and that sweet smell of a brand new baby filling the room.
Now that’s an easy, breezy beautiful moment.
When my babies were tiny babies, I often wondered, as I stood at their cribs watching them sleep, catching glimpses of adorable smiles, “what are they dreaming…”
To the joy of sweet baby dreams…Peace.
(This was art created with many, many glazes of watercolor, the butterflies were separately drawn, painted and cutout, collage onto the artwork and then sealed with a gloss medium.)
the babies face is so sweet – i really love this one!
Comment by Adrienne — February 28, 2009 @ 6:26 am
Lovely illustration!
Comment by TMartin — February 28, 2009 @ 7:27 am
What a sweet painting! I remember those times too, now that you reminded me! Of course, these days I’m living with (da-da-da-dum) TEENAGERS! Ugh!
Comment by DEB — February 28, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Oh, this is so sweet! I love the peaceful face on the baby and the pretty butterflies coming in on the breeze. Even though my baby is now a grown man, I can still see his baby face in my mind’s eye.
Comment by carla — February 28, 2009 @ 8:53 am
And they have that new baby smell too, nothing like it…
You captured the bliss of a sleeping baby wonderfully!
Comment by Roberta Baird — February 28, 2009 @ 9:47 am
Love the colours, and the scene! It is too breezy charming and sweet!!
Comment by cati — February 28, 2009 @ 10:12 am
Beautiful! I love how you have illustrated this piece with bold and soft colours.
Loving the breezy blowing in and the dancing mood set on with butterflies flying!
Comment by yoon see — February 28, 2009 @ 10:38 am
It is wonderful precious!!
Comment by TeriC — February 28, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
I can hear the babies sleeping with their light breaths and the sounds of the cool afternoon wind. Your motherly perspective is refreshing.
p.s. I enjoyed looking at “Gabriel’s Horn.”
Comment by XuanThu — February 28, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
How beautiful when a mother loves her babies!
This drawing is excellent an full of poetry.
Best wishes!
Comment by Monica — February 28, 2009 @ 1:27 pm
Thanks for the kind words! I really like the butterflies in your image…and I LOVE the baby’s cheeks!
Comment by Eva — February 28, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
How sweet and peaceful! Beautiful little baby face, and I like the cloud pillow. The colorful butterflies are an excellent touch. Aaah, yes, those are happy memories. There were times when my sleeping baby would suddenly hiccup and laugh in her sleep, which never failed to make me giggle.
Comment by Bella Sinclair — February 28, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
i feel the love :)
Comment by valgalart — February 28, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Lovely take on the topic, the butterflies are a charming touch :)
Comment by Bee — March 1, 2009 @ 5:27 am
so very sweet and peaceful
Comment by Amy C — March 1, 2009 @ 9:44 am
wonderful work Indigene….I used to love sleeping with a nice breeze blowing….looks like you captured a great memory!!!
Comment by Diana Evans — March 1, 2009 @ 9:45 am
ooh how sweet is this!!! They’re all so cute and sweet when they are asleep! This is just adorable and love your take on the word. This is beautiful! I bet the air smells of sweet grass and flowers! Great illustration.
Comment by vanessa newton — March 1, 2009 @ 11:04 am
i look at my new granddaughter and think these exact thoughts. hugs.
Comment by soulbrush — March 1, 2009 @ 11:12 am
You really caught the essence of an afternoon nap with a soft breeze blowing through the open window. Charming.
Comment by Sarah Wyman — March 1, 2009 @ 11:14 am
so neat, so smelly good, peaceful colors and sweet dreams, beautiful baby…..this is how i felt looking at your illustration.
Comment by isay — March 1, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
Great colorful work! and perfect breezy feeling!
Comment by AndyDoodler — March 1, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
Such a touching image. You’ve captured the sweet and warm mood of the painting. It’s also nice to know how you did the panting by describing your process.
Comment by Madonna Davidoff — March 1, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
It is so nic to see that someone still takes the time to do artwork the right way. The care and patience given to your watercolors are beautiful. The addition of collage is wonderful and innovative. You do this so well.
Comment by josh pincus is crying — March 1, 2009 @ 8:30 pm
Indigene, first of all, the baby’s cheeks are just adorable and so cute. I love your description. For a moment I lapsed into yesteryear and I saw my Mother. Thank you very much for this post that made me remember my childhood.
Comment by Ces — March 1, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
Hello Indigene! This is such a sweet illustration. We better not talk aloud here or we might awake the sleeping child. Nostalgic drawing. And I like how you integrated the breeze here with the flowing curtains and flying butterflies.:)
Comment by Björnik — March 1, 2009 @ 9:45 pm
This one is so sweet. We all loved to open windows at nite and let that great breeze in. Lovely memories
Comment by Gordana — March 1, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
Indigene i’m adding another message here – thank you for adding me to your favorites and for all your nice comments about my work. I’m adding you as well. We are so close, practically neighbors – you might be able to show some of your work at the place that i have a studio (goggleworks.org) – there is a gallery in the building that you may be interested in…here’s the link…
http://acor-pa.org/index.html
Comment by Adrienne — March 1, 2009 @ 9:50 pm
This is so sweet and tender! I really feel you’ve captured the essence of such a wonderful memory. Fantastic!
Comment by Edrian Thomidis — March 1, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
You’ve really captured the moment with this one. Such a wonderful illustration.
Comment by Eric Barclay — March 1, 2009 @ 11:19 pm
Beautiful and nice image. Sweet interpretation,
Comment by Tomás — March 2, 2009 @ 3:36 am
omg that is beautiful. i got a few tears even!
Comment by messy_fish — March 2, 2009 @ 4:57 am
Thanks for stopping by and for the warm welcome to IF!
What a lovely illustration – I often wonder what my baby will look like. I am 38 weeks pregnany and cannot wait to meet her. I am so looking forward to the moment you described, standing at her crib and watching her…
Comment by Deborah — March 2, 2009 @ 5:40 am
this is so cute!
Comment by Catalina — March 2, 2009 @ 6:30 am
so sweet.
Comment by kiri — March 2, 2009 @ 8:27 am
So sweet! I love the butterflies! Thanks for visiting my blog!
Comment by Nina — March 2, 2009 @ 8:55 am
So wonderful and sweet. I wondered the same thing too…what they dream or think about.
Comment by Kat — March 2, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Makes me want to curl up with them right now and take a nice, long peaceful nap … only I don’t think they would go for it. HA!
Comment by Maria Pace-Wynters — March 2, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
beautiful , adorable and sweet picture! the background is so cheerful with the bright colours and butterflies!
Comment by Pea — March 3, 2009 @ 2:24 am
Love it,so sweet and peaceful
Comment by theartofpuro — March 3, 2009 @ 7:08 am
This is such a lovely illustration – very nice take on breezy! Wish babies didn’t grow up quite so quickly – we could all do with more time with them!
Comment by Caroline Soer — March 3, 2009 @ 8:29 am
Beautiful piece and a wonderful post.
A very fine portrayal of “Breeze” at many levels.
Have a wonderful week :-)
Comment by Lisa Rivas — March 3, 2009 @ 9:01 am
very nice; i like how the pillow and curtains have clouds in them. a very balancing image for the bear shooter below ;-)
Comment by AscenderRisesAbove — March 3, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
absolutely wonderful
Comment by cobol — March 3, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
A lovely peaceful interlude. So sweet.
Comment by denise — March 3, 2009 @ 11:58 pm
I’ll have my Etsy store up and running soon and you will be able to purchase prints and other wonderful stuff. Thanks for your comments and if you have an afro puff laying around could you send me one? he he he!!! Hugs a plenty Girly
Comment by vanessa newton — March 4, 2009 @ 4:24 am
Sweet, and the colours really shine.
Comment by Sam — March 4, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Hola!
Thank you for your comment!
I love how the butterflies paid the peacefully sleeping baby a visit!
saludos!
Comment by Margarita — March 4, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
Ah – that will be a memory to look out for, when the time comes.
:)
I think everyone here has used the word sweet, so I will too.
:)
Comment by Aimee Smith — March 5, 2009 @ 2:02 am
its seems almost like the butterflies are protecting the baby. nice colors, beautifully done
Comment by michael dailey — March 5, 2009 @ 6:33 am
This is very sweet! I love the colors!
Comment by Michelle — March 5, 2009 @ 10:51 am
what a sweet illo!
Comment by zari — March 8, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
ahh, so very sweet and beautiful
Comment by linda — March 10, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
It makes me uncomfortable when someone just reaches out and pats my belly..Then I have some people touch my belly and it seems totally natural. So for me It depends on who it is. I’ve had 1 person ask if she may touch my belly in 34 weeks of pregnancy and it made my day that she would have enough respect to ask…
Comment by dartan — December 13, 2009 @ 2:37 am