Friday, July 13, 2007

Illustration Friday: discovery


My submission for Illustration Friday's "discovery" is called "Duck House". For a fun adventure and a wonderful discovery. Location: Along Rt. 24 north of Rt. 27 by 1.25 miles


On the west side of the road.
Suffolk Co-NY
Latitude: N 40 degrees 53.28
Longitude: W 72 degrees 33.44

37 comments:

annax said...

Oh this is just so sweet and lovely! The concept is simply amazing!
~annax

Anonymous said...

Gee, I've never peed on a duck. I can hardly wait. Bad dog

Anonymous said...

are you kidding me? Does this house really exist? how sweet and amazing and what a discovery for kids. and grown ups too!

zime said...

Very funny!!! Nice illo...

Tina Poe said...

Magical and Mother Goose-ie! Great painting!

Ginger*:) said...

I want to go ! This is just so lovely. The whole idea whether real or imagined is fantastic. What a discovery!

Majeak Ann said...

Love the duckies coming out of the giant duck, nice work Val :)
xoxo,
Marjorie

andrea said...

Is there a real one at that location? Did you design it? This is too cute.

thefridayfrog said...

oh mannn!!! LOVE this one, valgal! the plank...and the ducks coming down....great! ;)

JO said...

How cute, there's a show on HGTV that show's unusual house's I've seen a shoe, this is so funny.

Cream said...

Another discovery!

Nicole Florian said...

Very funny!

carla said...

Val... this is delightful! It takes me back to my childhood... we'd go to Montauk every summer, and one of our markers along the way was the "big duck," a huge building like a duck at some kind of farm. We knew we were getting closer once we passed it! Wonderful:>

Gillian Mowbray said...

This is cute! Does it really exist?

° said...

ive seen this duck before. he was on the news when i lived in NY, i think. memeory gone bad. to bad we cant get a new (M) cards like pc's

imwithsully said...

Oh my! Liam would love this one! Sweet!

Tracy said...

This is too adorable! I love it :)

Anonymous said...

this is really sweet work - and it's a real place...cool!

emilayusof said...

Beautiful illustration, Valerie!

Anonymous said...

very funny and amazing...how high and large such a building is?..lovely art as usual!

Twisselman said...

Thanks for including the GPS coordinates to this place... Now if I'm ever in New York...

Great piece... you can see the waddle in the line of duckies.

Anonymous said...

I'm a sucker for roadside attractions like this.

I just love this painting :)

Paola De Gaudio said...

Haha! Nice discovery! And magical illo, as usual !
Thanks for stopping by :)

Unknown said...

oh this is great, wish i could visit the real one!

Unknown said...

What a cute ducking!!

Diane Duda said...

Duck house. :)

Teri said...

Oh what fun here!! This is great. They must have built it so you could make art out of it :)

Designing Fairy said...

this exists? No way. I'd love to see that.

Unknown said...

hi val! thanks for your comments :) i have missed being here too, but hope to be more active over the summer! cheers, stacey

Anonymous said...

Hi Val,
It must be beautiful this house… Painting is charming!
Is the weather very hot at home?
The sun arrived here since on Friday 13… I carried a jacket teases some still a week ago!
Have an excellent week!

studio lolo said...

I love this house! Just ducky!!

Laura said...

Oh how charming is this?! Your imagination continues to inspire and amaze me Val!!

Janice Ykema said...

how cute...! Marvelous idea... I watched a mother swan giving her syg (something or others) a ride the other day... What a great house....

maria antunes said...

Lovely!

Kisses

Jannie aka Chickengirl said...

How did I miss this last week?!?!?! I LOVE your duck house!!!! Now how about a chicken house? :-)

Ces Adorio said...

This is lovely. Do you ever run out of ideas?

ottoblotto said...

Lovely duck - clean and beautifully done.