ILLUSTRATION INSPIRATION: Rebecca Mock

This week's illustration inspiration features the colorful illustrations of Rebecca 

Mock. Her realistic and stylized pieces exhibit expert compositions that I 

L-O-V-E.  Please Enjoy. Thank you Rebecca for the Inspiration.

May we always be young enough...

It's true. I have never grown up and I will always want to climb on a playground,  

read children's books in funny voices and make brilliant sculptures out of play doh. 

But you can't deny that these colorful playgrounds originally designed by, 

Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdams are knocking your socks off. Their innovative design 

allows tension to be maintained as the fiber stretches, therefore enabling the children 

(or adults) to play safely. And they are the coolest most colorful playgrounds 

I have ever seen. 

ILLUSTRATION INSPIRATION: Philip Barlow

This week's Illustration Inspiration comes from Philip Barlow. It was the luminosity 

in these paintings that drew me to them. Actually, I originally thought they were 

photographs artfully taken out of focus. But Philip Barlow captured the figures in 

a perfect moment when the light is falling on them just right and creates a 

sparkling art piece. 

Something about these paintings 'remind me of a time'... Not a specific time, 

but I do get that feeling that I have been there, and seen that exact moment, 

and with that feeling comes the sounds and the feel and smell of it all. Do you get the 

feeling that each painting surrounds you? Like you are standing in that scene watching 

it happen. I am kind of feeling the ocean breeze right now. And that, my friends, 

is why I love Philip Barlow's amazing works of art.