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.)
Tags: baby, Breezy, collage, color pencil, Dreams, gloss medium, Graphite, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, paper cut-out, Sweet, watercolor
February 28th, 2009 at 6:26 am
the babies face is so sweet – i really love this one!
February 28th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Lovely illustration!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:20 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!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:53 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.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:47 am
And they have that new baby smell too, nothing like it…
You captured the bliss of a sleeping baby wonderfully!
February 28th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Love the colours, and the scene! It is too breezy charming and sweet!!
February 28th, 2009 at 10:38 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!
February 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
It is wonderful precious!!
February 28th, 2009 at 1:21 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.”
February 28th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
How beautiful when a mother loves her babies!
This drawing is excellent an full of poetry.
Best wishes!
February 28th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Thanks for the kind words! I really like the butterflies in your image…and I LOVE the baby’s cheeks!
February 28th, 2009 at 7:23 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.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
i feel the love :)
March 1st, 2009 at 5:27 am
Lovely take on the topic, the butterflies are a charming touch :)
March 1st, 2009 at 9:44 am
so very sweet and peaceful
March 1st, 2009 at 9:45 am
wonderful work Indigene….I used to love sleeping with a nice breeze blowing….looks like you captured a great memory!!!
March 1st, 2009 at 11:04 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.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
i look at my new granddaughter and think these exact thoughts. hugs.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:14 am
You really caught the essence of an afternoon nap with a soft breeze blowing through the open window. Charming.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:11 pm
so neat, so smelly good, peaceful colors and sweet dreams, beautiful baby…..this is how i felt looking at your illustration.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Great colorful work! and perfect breezy feeling!
March 1st, 2009 at 5:01 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.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:30 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.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:36 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.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:45 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.:)
March 1st, 2009 at 9:49 pm
This one is so sweet. We all loved to open windows at nite and let that great breeze in. Lovely memories
March 1st, 2009 at 9:50 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
March 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
This is so sweet and tender! I really feel you’ve captured the essence of such a wonderful memory. Fantastic!
March 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
You’ve really captured the moment with this one. Such a wonderful illustration.
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Beautiful and nice image. Sweet interpretation,
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 am
omg that is beautiful. i got a few tears even!
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 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…
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 am
this is so cute!
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 am
so sweet.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 am
So sweet! I love the butterflies! Thanks for visiting my blog!
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
So wonderful and sweet. I wondered the same thing too…what they dream or think about.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 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!
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:24 am
beautiful , adorable and sweet picture! the background is so cheerful with the bright colours and butterflies!
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 am
Love it,so sweet and peaceful
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 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!
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
Beautiful piece and a wonderful post.
A very fine portrayal of “Breeze” at many levels.
Have a wonderful week :-)
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
very nice; i like how the pillow and curtains have clouds in them. a very balancing image for the bear shooter below ;-)
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
absolutely wonderful
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
A lovely peaceful interlude. So sweet.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:24 am
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
March 4th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Sweet, and the colours really shine.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hola!
Thank you for your comment!
I love how the butterflies paid the peacefully sleeping baby a visit!
saludos!
March 5th, 2009 at 2:02 am
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.
:)
March 5th, 2009 at 6:33 am
its seems almost like the butterflies are protecting the baby. nice colors, beautifully done
March 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
This is very sweet! I love the colors!
March 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
what a sweet illo!
March 10th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
ahh, so very sweet and beautiful
December 13th, 2009 at 2:37 am
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…