Vacation

Vacation is the word of the week on Illustration Friday, and it's also a word that has been on my mind lately. On a shelf beside my drafting table I keep a couple of ticket stubs from a trip that my family took to Disneyland when I was eight along with a little promotional pin that I won for their 35th anniversary celebration and the one souvenir I chose, an Alice in Wonderland tea set. That vacation to California holds a lot of happy memories and it is a place I would like to return to someday, which is why I keep those things in a place where I can see them often. The date on the stubs reads June 15th, 1990- 25 years ago this week. For this illustration I was brainstorming who could use a vacation, and I thought of the worker bee! I suppose I am a bit of a worker bee myself- on top of my regular job I usually spend 60 to 80 hours a month in my studio. Of course, there is so much joy that I get from illustrating that I have never thought of it as work... still, a little time away for a vacation on a beach would be okay with me!