Illustration Friday: Clique -

"Clique"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

The weekly theme at Illustration Friday is clique. As I was considering my options this digital drawing came to mind. I started it months ago and left it quite unfinished, until today when it all started to make perfect sense. I should say that, at first, I was going to offer up a black square. In the end, aside from being a difficult point to make, that would have been too minimal to suit even me - besides the fact that the white squares and black squares thing has been done before, I find the idea of ROY G BIV to be much more colorful, all inclusive and paradoxically elite at the same time.

Let the girls sing -

"Girls Night Out"
digital collage by Mick Mather

The other evening I happened to notice a number of teenagers gathered in groups, bonding, chattering, discussing the first week back at school and already forming into cliques. Pretty much as I remember it when I was that age come to think of it. Well, except for the fact that today's teenagers seem to be growing up even faster than my own generation ... or does it just seem that way?