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

Illustration Friday: Beneath

You may think there is just grass and earth beneath your feet but if you look a little lower there's a party going on.

Daily Doodle: Jack

Graduation Card

Do you know someone who is graduating next spring? Do you shop at Walmart? Yes? Well you are in luck! This adorable graduation card will be gracing the shelves of your local Walmart Spring 2011. Just in time for graduation.

Daily Doodle: Sweet Little Mouse

This sweet little mouse would like to give you a little flower.

Daily Doodle: Andi

Little Andi
sweet as candy
until you turn your back.

Daily Doodle: Pitbull

For today's doodle I'd like to share a friendly pit bull playing Frisbee. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the pit bull breed. Some people love them, some hate them and some fight them. I prefer to stay out of most of it and just cuddle with my personal pit bull, Moose.
This lovely little Pit Bull is available on a card here.

Daily Doodle

Daily Doodle: George

George was a modern spider. He made a web inspired by Mondrian and Frank Lloyd Wright.
He is currently available on a little hand made card. Check it out: http://www.etsy.com/listing/57268415/modern-spider-card

In other news Shirt Prize is down to the final 10. My shirt "Taking it Slow" is neck and neck with the other top competitors. Please take a minute and cast your vote: http://www.shirtprize.com/final-week/taking-it-slow-finalist-1/

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Illustration Friday: Old-Fashioned

Prudence wasn't really that grumpy. It was just an old-fashioned photograph. Well.... OK she was almost that grumpy but not quite.
She now available as a print here.

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Shirt Prize

There is a fun little competition going on right now in Grand Rapids called ShirtPrize. Artists enter t-shirt designs the people vote for the ones they want to win. My entry is called "Taking it Slow" and features two lovely turtles in love. I you get a chance stop by and vote. http://www.shirtprize.com/week-two/taking-it-slow/ Thank you!