Karee Barrett

A little watercolor for “Craving”.  This week’s word from Illustration Friday.

UPDATE:  Now available as a poster on Zazzle.

This little cup was my mom’s.  She went to Bimbo’s 365 in the 50’s with her cousin and yes, ok my mom stole the cup in her purse.   Bimbo’s 365 was and still is a famous bar in San Francisco.  From the website:

In 1931, he and Young, now his partner, opened the 365 Club at 365 Market Street. San Francisco was weary of the Depression, needed some fun, and the 365 Club was there to provide it. The club was crowded with celebrities and stars from across America who were there to see and be seen. On stage, lines of long-stemmed chorus girls kicked high to the music; one of whom was Rita Cansino. Later, we would all know her as Rita Hayworth. Gin was served in coffee cups while everybody puzzled over the optical illusion provided by Dolfina, The Girl in the Fishbowl: She appeared to swim nude in the fish tank behind the bar… you can still find her there today.

I love this little cup, I didn’t realize until reading this that my mom probably had gin from it not coffee.  She had told me about the naked girl in the fishbowl.  I’d love to go one day and see Dolfina splashing around in her bowl.  When my mom died and me and my family went through her things to have, this was the first thing I picked.

Squirrels line up to deliver a cake for this week’s Illustration Friday word parade.

UPDATE: Now available as a card on Zazzle.   Right here.

Thinking of mother’s today, I turned an old photo of my grandmother Mabel “Jackie” Roberts into a card.  I don’t know exactly what year it was taken, but I know it was prior to my mother being born in 1937.
That’s the Santa Cruz Boardwalk behind her.   “The Giant Dipper” wooden roller coaster dates back to 1924 and is still there.  I’ve ridden it many times myself.  I’ve heard that in those days those striped umbrellas were available to rent.
This card is now available at Zazzle.

A little ant colony depicts the word Hierarchy for this weeks Illustration Friday drawing.

My daughter is a star onstage in her high school plays, so I was thinking of her as I drew two little worms in their apple theater.  When Leah graduates this year I will miss seeing her and her friends in those high school productions.

A watercolor for Illustration Friday.

I haven’t been drawing much lately, been so busy it seems… but here I am again.  This little watercolor is for Illustration Friday’s word “Impossibility”.  I would love to be up in that hut… alone for a little while… but it seems like an impossibility….

I found this wooden jumping jack yesterday at a church yard sale for a dollar.  Isn’t she cute?  Would she be called a Jumping Jill?  She’s stamped on the back with “AARFAC” which I’ve found out is the “Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center” in Colonial Williamsburg.  Also stamped on the back is “handcrafted by Dudley and Emilie Fuller.  Thank you Dudley and Emilie Fuller, I love her.  She’s hanging in my kitchen, and my whole family loves her too.

Sound the alarm! This little clock caught on fire as time sped by.

Watercolor for this week’s Illustration Friday.

Mini daffodils in my kitchen.