Janne Harju

This is an illustration for an invitation to the Summer Party of the Finnish Illustrators Association (Kuvittajat ry). Little birds are queuing to jump off from the branch, which is curved to form a word “juhla” (Party).

Times are not good and it seems to reflect on subjects of my assignments too. These two illustrations are for Anna magazine, two diffrent issues but same series. Both are quite sad stories. In death of a friend -picture (above) I tried to catch the feeling of fading memories. In brother’s illness -picture (below) I used tied hands to represent feeling of not being able to do anything to help.