Watercolor Wednesday: A Fantastic Water Balloon

I seem to have been hit hard by a summer cold and the congestion is making concentrating on anything but the inside of my eyelids quite difficult.  However, I still managed to get an image done and I'm mostly happy with it, I'm just not sure weather to outline this guy in black marker or not and I'm afraid of ruining the image so for now I'll leave it be.  This little boy was strongly inspired by boyhood pictures of my husband and this pose.  The fish in the balloon idea popped into my head as soon as I saw the pose and when I started drawing the boy he started looking like my husband.  My subconscious must have taken over, because my husband has a zany and incredible imagination as an adult, so I can just imagine the things he came out with as a child:

A Boy and His Dragon

The inspiration for today's artwork name is Eli, he's a young second cousin of my husbands and was at a baby shower I attended yesterday.  The weather was nice enough to have the shower outside and the yard we were in had a scenic, but very steep ravine...don't worry this story does not end badly..it ends comically. Eli had a stuffed dragon and while presents were being opened he decided to throw his stuffed dragon down the hill/ravine.  Luckily it did not fall far and his mother retrieved it.  I asked her when she came back "Did he think it would fly?" and she said "No, he was trying to feed the bigger dragon that lives in the ravine."   This really tickled me, to the point I can't stop thinking of Eli and his cannibalistic dragon, this drawing is a little scary and a bit reminiscent of Puff the Magic Dragon.  I used photoshop for the lineart and Corel draw for the coloring.