Illustration Friday: Flavor

I'm working on one of the finished pages of my Alphabet book for this weeks topic, but in the meantime here's an old sketch from when I was in school.

Psychic Pictionary

While visiting my family for the holidays we played a game of Pictionary. My mother and i seemed to have a psychic link going for this all play clue, and our two teams guessed the answer almost simulta- neously. Can you figure it out?

Illustration Friday: Imagine

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Leather

These are three illustrations I did for a friend's short story.

Harder than Plastic

All the Flavors

Happy Holidays!

Here's the finished holiday card which I may or may not mail depending on wether I can afford the ink/copies/stamps/time.

Scanning blues.

I should have asked for a new scanner for Christmas. It's so frustrating to spend hours on a painting, then scan it to find out that none of the subtle colors show up at all. maybe a more skilled person could tweak it somehow, but I just make it worse every time.

Cards

Last week was a blur of unprodutive shopping trips, and my neice dancing to They Might Be Giants, but I've had two days of uninterupted mornings painting, so it looks like my holiday cards may get done after all-- by New Year's at least.

Illustration Friday: Small

Illustration Friday: small

Routine

I'm trying to get in the habbit of sitting at my desk for at least an hour first thing in the morning, before all the daily stress settles in, but I really have to start earlier. If I could just make myself get up before everyone else in the house I wouldn't have to worry about interuptions, or get distracted by what's going on upstairs. I don't want to set an alarm, but it's so hard to make myself go to bed early when late at night is the only time Chris is avaiable to spend any time together. I remember in school it was always my female teachers who talked about having to schedule their creative time like this. I didn't think it would be such an issue until I had kids though.

G is for Green

You might say 'Ladybug doesn't start with G!' but I happen to know that this particular ladybug is a girl.

D is for Double Bubble

I finished this letter sometime in September, but spent a couple of months hating it, then I found this article about Zubbles and was inspired to look at it again.

Supplies

There is an AC Moore Arts and Crafts superstore just 10 minutes down Union Turnpike! Hurray! They have a huge paper section. I can't wait until I actually have time to shop there.

eye:hand coordination project

Found this link on Drawn! and gave it a try.

Sketch: Snowbunnies

aah!

It just occurred to me that it's time to start designing holiday cards. So tempting to buy them, but they make such good portfolio filler.

Foliage

My family came to visit today. We went to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to see the Japanese Autumn Garden. It was gorgeous, but the colors outside the conservatory were just as spectacular.

zzz

i'm so tired.

Sketch: L is for lonely letter looking at a lily

Sketch: C is for Candy, Chocolate, Cereal...

I am Super

Chris went out while I was watching Smallville and came back with this hat.

30

So we went to see Rufus Wainwright at the Beacon Theatre last night. Awesome, especially the finale: Britney Spears choreography with the entire band dressed in togas- really funny. The horn players from Conan O'Brien were there, as well as a violinist, bass/cellist, backup singers, the whole nine yards. He played all my favorites (except Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk.)It was the perfect way to turn 30.

Best Bumper sticker ever...

First the GOP then the Borg.

Raggedy Mandy

here's my neice in her Raggedy Ann Costume, but she wouldn't get anywhere near the hat.

Finally

We're finally completely out of the old apartment. So much dust, i'm going to be a neat person from now on, I swear. I've been put in charge of getting the dishwasher here repaired. They bought it almost a year ago, and it never worked, so Chris' mom has been doing the dishes by hand all this time. and I thought I hated making phone calls.

Daughter-in-law

well the move is over, except for the cleaning of the refrigerator at the old apartment, but I'm still waiting for that magical time when I have nothing to do but sit at my desk and draw. I'm happy to help my in-laws with wahtever they need, but it is so frustrating to not be asked directly for anything. I always get the last minute, 'you're taking Mandy here', or 'you're picking Alex up.' Ok, i'm just annoyed i missed the first half of Smallville.

Rain

This endless rain is really getting to me. I'm lucky I don't have to be out in it, but it's throwing my schedule off completely. i wanted to get the firts round of boxes over to the new place this week, but since 75% of what I've packed so far is books I don't want to get the boxes wet. Sigh, probably a perfect excuse to sit down at my desk before I pack up my pencils, but that doesn't seem to be happening. i'll just eat some more Haloween candy.

R is for Rainbow

So I started working on letters for an alphabet book because it's an automatic 26 assignments to get me going, and there is nothing I like better than variations on a theme. I've finished 3 letters, but this is the only one I like at all right now. Unfortunately my scanner sucks and I have no patience for color correction, so the clouds have no shadow. I have an idea for the text of the book, but it's too soon to talk about it. I'm just going to keep going.

The first collage

Of all the old stuff I have in my portfolio this is the one I think represents the direction I want to go in. So I think it should be up here as a starting point, and we'll see where I go from here.

Wedding Card

Well it's not what I hoped it would be, but here's what i did for Rosey's wedding card. I do kind of like the trees though.

1 done 5 to go

First of six panels finished today, but I'm too lazy to scan them right now.

A clean desk

so i cleaned off my desk and actually did some stuff for the first time in forever, but I can't show it since it's meant to be gifts.

Super old

it's super old, but there it is, the first page in my sketchbook.

First!

hello to me :)