wake up…don't hibernate

Elections…so many coming up around the world.

pen and ink cartoon by sandra santa lucia, banff

Back in September 0f 2001 I created a cartoon for the Banff Crag & Canyon's newspaper reminding voters to get out and vote. This cartoon above seemed the perfect illustration for this week's, Sept. 30 to Oct. 6th' Illustration Friday's topic for the week "Hibernate".
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." ~ Anais Nin Topic suggested by: suggested by Caitriona (http://www.flickr.com/photos/caitrionasweeney/).

do nothing…relax

pen and ink illustration by sandra santa lucia/82

One remedy for relieving tension is to relax and "do nothing" . 
     This week's , July 1 - July 7th Illustration Friday's topic is "Remedy" suggested by Elizabeth McMahill http://elizabethmcmahill.blogspot.com/ .To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy" ~ Hippocrates

reverse

This week's Illustration Friday topic is reverse. 

"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other." 

– Arthur Schopenhauer

  

All of a sudden Doreen let out a scream, "There's a bear on the path!"

pen and ink book illustration by Sandra Santa Lucia

Who wants to be inside…a bear that is!  

The subject chosen for this weeks Illustration Friday , depicts one of the illustrations which I drew for Wagging Tails a  book about a Banff family and their four-legged friends. In this particular illustration depicting three friends who had been enjoying their hike to Johnson Lake when one of them spotted a bear!  They're leisurely hike soon became a very fast reverse speed hike away from the lake!