While touring the Society of Illustrators, I honestly seen a lot of great pieces. A few stuck out to me, but one of my favorites would be tis editorial piece, “My Lesbian daughter” by Edel Rodriguez. It shows a mother embracing her younger daughter holding the colorful “Gay flag”. I am a colorful person myself, so the flag stuck out to me instantly. The arms in the picture, are almost confusing, but I like it. I see one arm that’s definitely the mothers wrapped around the side of the daughter, but the other arm I’m not sure if it is the mother or the daughter’s holding up the flag. It’s almost confusing, you see 3 arms and this it, I find that interesting.

Also, from the title I automatically figured the artist to be a woman, but with doing some research I see it was a man, even more intriguing. Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American whos works been international. He also has a lot of accomplishments such as graduating with honors in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 1994 and 4 years later receiving a Masters of Fine Arts in painting from Manhattan’s Hunter College graduate program, WOW. You can tell e took art seriously. From his website, I see throughout his career, Rodriguez has received commissions to create artwork for numerous clients, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications and book publishers. This one I like was made for TIME Magazine.

On the plaque, next to “My lesbian daughter” it says his medium was mixed media. Going through some of his portfolios I can see that he actually makes a lot of painting and from observing, red must be his favorite color! He uses red A LOT in different shades, most often uses bloody red.