Illustrating a cookbook!

I am currently illustrating a cookbook of 12 yummy soups for my longtime friend, Melissa at M Delish Boutique.

We revealed our first page yesterday (sans recipe)...

If you're interested in getting a copy, Melissa is offering a discounted pre-order price for a limited time here. Delish!

Sketching on moo.com packaging

I have a terrible time tossing all the beautiful packaging that comes with my moo.com postcards, so I sat down and sketched on the pieces before recycling them...

Happy 1st Day of Spring!

We had two early-morning guests today. One was a three-year-old who wanted to watercolor.

I can't remember the last time I broke out my watercolors before 9am, but it was such a fantastic way to start my day, I think I'll try a morning like this tomorrow as well.

Happy Spring, All!

Illustration Friday, "Path"

Last night I submitted art to the Illustration Friday challenge for the first time. The word to illustrate was Path. This is what I sent in...

Another nudge to animate

This is a collage of my cat, Tyco. He's cool, and he likes to drive his truck around.

Thanks to a great friend's suggestion, this is now his theme song:

 

I love it. Love it, I say! This might be my final push to start learning animation. Stay tuned....

Illustrating the Ogre of Rashomon

For an upcoming critique with Mark Mitchell and Jeff Crosby, I created a few illustrations for the Japanese folktale, The Ogre of Rashomon. I wanted a very graphic, in-your-face look for this. A couple of my ideas...

Transferring my collage onto wood

The collage I'd made for this month's MATS Bootcamp really lent itself to a burnt wood look, so I bought a few rounds of wood and a wood-burning tool at my local art store.

Though I really loved sketching with the wood burner, I just couldn't get an even burn for large flat areas. So I found this great Photoshop tutorial, made some additional tweaks, and submitted this final piece: