Illustration Friday: Immovable

Sometimes our problems seem immovable.

Illustration Friday: Atmosphere

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Up where the air is clear
Up to the atmosphere

Illustration Friday: Star Gazing

This is the perfect Illustration Friday topic for me today. If tonight is clear my husband and I will be going to my brothers house to watch the perseid meteor showers. We will even be borrowing my parents telescope to check out some other celestial objects. If you want to see what is in the sky tonight check out skymaps.com. They have free, downloadable sky maps and lists of objects that can be seen with the naked eye, binoculars or telescope. While you're at it check out Astronomy Cast too. It is one of my favorite podcasts. Have fun star gazing!

Electric Cheetah

I had the wonderful opportunity to hang my work at a local restaurant called The Electric Cheetah. Don't you just love the name? It is one of my favorite restaurants in Grand Rapids. They have fantastic soup and if you know me, I'm a sucker for soup. I hung a variety of work. Some of it is older and some of it is brand new. All of it is for sale. So please stop on by. Eat some food. Look at some art and maybe buy your favorite piece.

From my sketchbook

Now that I have a baby I have a lot less time or doing my own personal work. His nap times are spent getting my paid illustration work done. I try to squeeze personal paintings into the little cracks of time when he is playing happily by himself or with my husband. This has unfortunately resulted in many ruined paintbrushes when he suddenly starts crying just after I've mixed the perfect color and I leave it on my brush thinking I'll be back before it dries. I should know better. As a result I've been doing many more pen and ink drawings. They are quick, portable and the only clean up required is putting the cap back on the pen. I've been doing a little series of odd creatures. I've always loved drawing animals and no one can deny my affinity for the odd and the quirky. I thought I'd share the spring hare and naked mole rat I have finished. Enjoy!Share

Illustration Friday: Breakfast

Last week Tuesday Wilbur narrowly avoided becoming breakfast.
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Milton, Jerry and Winston

A few more little paintings using those cute little 3x3 canvases.

Coffee Cups

I found a great deal on some small canvases. I thought I'd try something a little different than I normally do. I decided to make some simple brightly colored images. I used three of the 6 3x3 canvases I bought to make a little set of coffee cups. They will be available for sale when I move into my studio space. I think the bright colors will be great to attract attention if I hang them in the window.

Illustration Friday: Satellite

Watch out for low flying satellites.

Illustration Friday: Ripple

This illustration was done for Iguana Magazine. A small Spanish language magazine for children.

New Stamps

My Favorite Things Rubber Stamps just released some new stamps from my designs. There is geeky Who's that Guy set and an Earth friendly Who's that Girl. Check them out at www.mftstamps.com

Festival

It's the beginning of June again and you know what that means? Festival of the Arts! I've been involved with Festival for three years now. I volunteer at the Regional Art Competition helping artists drop off their work and carting accepted and rejected entries to their proper locations. I will also be gallery sitting this year which mostly involves looking at art, talking about art, making sure people don't touch the art and telling people where the bathroom is. The art this year is exceptional. If you have a chance to stop by this weekend you should! You can check out the Festival website for times and location.

I entered and was fortunate enough to have two of my paintings selected. I'll share my favorite one; "Ancestry."

Illustration Friday: Fearless

I was fearless as a child.

Illustration Friday: Detective

Who could have made this hole in this apple?

Little Monsters

Wow, a month sure goes fast! My son is a month old already and I'm back to posting, painting and designing. I've been working on a few designs for a small company called Trendy Tykes that makes embroidery patterns and children's clothing. I came up with a few cute monsters for a little monster outfit they make. I'll be sure to post a link to it once they have it on their site. Here is a little preview of one of the monsters.
In the spirit of posting pictures of little monsters, here is my little monster, Wesley Luke.

Illustration Friday: Brave

Sometimes we imagine we are braver than we really are.

Illustration Friday: Perspective

"Sitting atop a tiger certainly give one a new perspective on the world." mused Matilda.

Illustration Friday: Propagate

Propagate is a great topic for me this week. I'm currently 39 weeks pregnant and wish that *@$ stork would just deliver that baby already!

Illustration Friday: Adrift

Here in the cold snowy north there isn't much to be adrift on so I chose to draw a drift. Poor little bunny. I'd head south if I were him.

Illustration Friday: Muddy

It is a muddy, mucky world out there.