Illustration Friday: Savour

Clarence didn't feel bad about helping himself to a little turkey. He knew how to savour his meals unlike the rest of the family.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Salamander

I have another realistic pen and ink drawing for you today. This little guy reminds me of my childhood. One particularly wet summer my brothers and I caught several spotted salamanders at my grandma's house. When she called us in for lunch we left the little critters in a bucket in her entry way. When we finished and looked back in the bucket all but one of the salamanders were missing. We looked high and low and found a few of them. Two or three of them never reappeared. I'm not sure my grandma ever found out we had inadvertently released salamanders into her house. She'd probably laugh about it now.

Mr. Bear

Mr. Bear is my son's favorite stuffed toy. He squeals happily every time he sees him. We love you Mr. Bear!

Jump

Mildred

Mildred always wore her best dress when she went out.

Christmas Shopping

"Well," thought Henry, "my Christmas shopping is done."

Have you heard?

The bird is the word. The humming bird!

Circus

"Yes," thought Margret. "This is the act. This is the act that makes us famous."

Illustration Friday: Sneaky

It turned out that Jeremy had ulterior motives for accepting Kimmie's invitation to tea. 

They call me "Puffy"

I had a cavity filled last week Tuesday and my face has finally returned to it's original size. The dentist isn't sure why but after I had the cavity filled my face puffed up and became very painful. They first thought it was an abscess but they couldn't find one. Then they thought it was a hematoma but I didn't have the characteristic bruise. It took two dentists to decide that I either had a reaction to the anesthetic or I have a needle track infection. Either way I am once again a statistical outlier.

Cavity

I had a cavity drilled last week Tuesday. Come back tomorrow for the rest of the story.

Daily Doodle: Hands

Francesca

I did my first art sale this week. It went well and I learned a LOT. People really seemed to love my hand made cards and little paintings on canvas. This cute little cow is still available. I call her Francesca.

Slow Gift

Elephant Gift

Prehistoric Christmas

Oink, Oink, Oink

Under the Mistletoe

A Very Prickly Christmas

Illustration Friday: Afterwards

Afterward they celebrated with a glass of wine.

No Sleep

No sleep and no coffee makes Christy a, well... let's just say a not nice girl.

It was an accident.

A terrible accident.

Christmas Zebra

Christmas is coming!

Illustration Friday: Spent

I've had the flu for the past few days and have a 7 month old baby who also got sick. Between being sick myself and taking care of a sick baby I am SPENT! All I can say is thank goodness for Grandmas!

Helping

Cute chick

Kimmi knew she was one cute chick.

Super Hippo

You can keep your super heroes. I want a super hippo. 

Daily Doodle: The Bird is the Word

This is the original drawing of a blue bird that I sent to Kim of My Favorite Things Rubber Stamps when she asked if I could draw a realistic bird. He got modified a bit and ended up in this lovely stamp set.

Daily Doodle: Crabpocalypse

Illustration Friday: Racing

 

In every race there are hurdles.  Winners know how to jump.

Daily Doodle: Free

 

Roger felt uneasy but he couldn't say no to free. 

Free Radical

My art is going to be a small part of a large art show on Friday. The information is HERE. Come on down if you are in the Grand Rapids Area!

Daily Doodle: Harold

Daily Doodle: Organic

Daily Doodle: Corn

Daily Doodle: Keeping up with the Mantids

 

Nedra didn't want to eat her own young but what would the neighbors think?

Daily Doodle: Ladybug Hello

 

Ladybugs are always stoppin' by to say, "Hi!"

You can get this image in two different versions a card and a print.

Illustration Friday: Spooky

 

I can't think of anything spookier than howling coyote skeletons. 

When I was in middle school my friend and I begged our parents to let us spend the night in a tent in the woods. Everything went great until the sun went down and this unearthly noise started echoing all around us. Our minds raced wondering what horrible thing it could be. Ghosts? UFOs? Around midnight we decided to make a break for it and spent the night inside. It turned out to be nothing more than a couple coyotes having a conversation. Those howls at night still give me the chills. 

Daily Doodle: Happy Sheep

This happy sheep is part of a congratulations card I made. You can get your own here.

Daily Doodle: Paris

Flopsey always had the latest hare style from Paris.

Who's That Girl Greatest Hits

The lovely ladies on the My Favorite Things Design team are doing a tribute to Who's That Girl this month. It is always so fun for me to see what other people do with my designs. Pop on over to  My Favorite Things blog to check out their amazing creations. As an added bonus Kim is offering a little discount on all WTG sets. Now is the perfect time to add to your WTG collection or buy your first one!

Peter possessed a poets heart but his pursuit of perfect punctuation remained hopeless.

Daily Doodle: Dating

Clarence hated dating. The conversations always felt so stilted.

Daily Doodle: Surfing

I've heard the best way to learn calculus is to go surfing. I guess I'll have to try it and find out.

Daily Doodle: Basketball

Turtles can't dunk or dribble but they're such good sports sometimes the other team lets them win.

Illustratation Friday: Transportation

 

Transportation

My topic was picked! I'm very excited about that even if they did spell my name wrong. I spell it with a y not an ie. Oh, well there are a lot of ways to spell Christy and they are all correct to somebody.

Generally I try to do a brand new piece of work for Illustration Friday but today that isn't possible. I'm leaving for Ann Arbor to go wedding dress shopping with my great friends/collage roommates. My friend that is getting married has cerebral palsy and keeps a funny and informative blog about the challenges of getting married with a disability called Disability and I Do. I've always thought she should put her dog to more use. She could go up steps, off road and through mud puddles. Are you reading this Melissa? We are getting Taden Marie a saddle!

Daily Doodle: Nautilus

I've always thought nautilus are amazing animals. They look fantastic in bow ties too.

Daily Doodle: ArtPrize

If you haven't been in Grand Rapids for the past two weeks you may not have heard about ArtPrize. It is the largest award in an art competition in the world. For the past two weeks downtown has been flooded with people and not just the "artsy" type but families, grandparents and normal average Joes. Over 1700 artists entered and the public chose their favorite 10.  Tonight is the end of voting on the top ten so in honor of this amazing competition I give you my version of an ArtPrize tourist. He voted for Beili Liu and so did I.

Daily Doodle: Katie

Daily Doodle: Alagator

Daily Doodle: Dinosaurs