SketchLAB-C

Illustration Friday: Clean

2006-08-01T19:27:00.000-04:00

Just a doodle really.

Sag Hampton

2006-05-24T12:27:00.000-04:00

Check it out! My dad has a new blog: Sag Hampton

Illustration Friday: Fat

2006-05-10T15:02:00.000-04:00

Oh so lazy this week! But cute anyway right?

Illustration Friday: Under the Sea (S is for...)

2006-04-30T17:34:00.000-04:00

submarine, shining, spotlight, shadows, shark, squid, school (of fish,) shilouette, sketch...

Illustration Friday: Robot

2006-04-27T11:12:00.000-04:00

My Pet Robot would definitely wear Converse.
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Rainbow's End

2006-04-24T13:54:00.000-04:00

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Here is my entry in the SCBWI ilustrator contest.

March for Peace

2006-04-21T09:05:00.000-04:00

I'm marching !

You know you're procrastinating when...

2006-04-19T10:58:00.000-04:00

1. Your desk is clean.
2. You've taught yourself to install that second hard drive.
3. You've looked at 250 entries on Illustration Friday, and even left comments on some.
4. You're blogging about procrastination.

Illustration Friday: Spotted

2006-04-18T17:24:00.000-04:00

Secrecy

2006-04-13T12:12:00.000-04:00

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators has an illustration competition going on - Rainbow's End. I'm a little paranoid that if I post my sketches here someone could steal my concept, hence why I've only been posting on Not Art.

Winter (unfinished)

2006-04-05T16:17:00.000-04:00

I got frustrated with this and never finished it, and didn't even start on fall.

Summer

2006-04-05T16:15:00.000-04:00

Illustration Friday: Spring

2006-04-04T21:25:00.000-04:00

So this is old and not done for IF, but I was illustrating Spring. I started a series of the four seasons, but only finished spring and summer. Maybe someday...

Illustration Friday: Monster

2006-03-28T11:14:00.000-05:00

My pet monster.

Illustration Friday: Feet

2006-03-23T13:51:00.000-05:00

F is for feet? Maybe P is for puddlejumping.

A is for...

2006-03-16T11:16:00.000-05:00

Those bubbles need to be coming from somewhere, but I'm out of ideas that start with A.

Not Art

2006-03-15T22:23:00.000-05:00

I really enjoy the idea of this blog being just for art related stuff, but there have been so many unrelated things I've been tempted to post that I jus went ahead and made a Live Journal! See it all here: Not Art

Morning Pages

2006-03-15T14:10:00.000-05:00

My sister gave me The Artist's Way for my birthday, and I'm finally getting around to giving it a try. I'm supposed to write three pages of long-hand stream-of-consciousness whatever every morning. The three times I actually did it were not so hard, and yet making myself do it every day is. The book says if it's hard that probably means it's exactly what you need. That seems right, yet doesn't help first thing in the morning when I just want to drink my coffee and check my email.

Reference

2006-03-09T10:47:00.000-05:00

I finally did some of the writing part of my ABC book, which now that I've started, I realise I was avoiding. the result? I just spent the last 20 minutes looking for reference pictures of anchovies. Go figure.

Doll Me

2006-02-27T14:18:00.000-05:00

What to do with your creative energy when all your art supplies are in another county.
Doll Maker

Project LABC

2006-02-25T20:43:00.000-05:00

So, I've been out at my parents' house for the past week, bumming around and watching the marathon of Project Runway. I am so jealous of the fashion department at Parsons. When I was there the chair off the illustration department was not wise, caring and helpful like Tim Gunn. The assistant chair made me cry on more than one occasion. I think I need to do my own Project Illo, and threaten to kick myself off the island every week if I don't work hard enough.

February

2006-02-02T11:13:00.000-05:00

February. I hate it almost as much as March. Everyone is sick and cranky and there is no sun. I guess I should look at it as a challenge not to lose momentum, and stick to my routine, but this time of year makes me so pessimistic.

Illustration Friday: Cats

2006-01-20T17:25:00.000-05:00

This is a postcard I did a while ago for Black Cat Books in Sag Harbor, NY.

Songs to drive to

2006-01-20T13:29:00.000-05:00

So Stacey's post about music for walking totally made me want to make my own list, and since I'm being self-indulgent and wasting the entire day anyway, here's my list of songs that give me that happy expansive feeling when I'm making the 2 hour drive to Sag Harbor by myself, and singing along:

"It's Oh So Quiet" - Bjork
Reminds me of the ads for Sex and the City with the red baloons.

"Girl" - Beck
My current favorite.

"American Music" - Violent Femmes
Gives me great nostalgia (for pumpkin picking, bizarrely.)

"Working Undercover" - They Might Be Giants
So hard to pick from TMBG.

"I Saw a Bird Fly Away" - Dar Williams

"Golden Years" - David Bowie

"Flagpole Sitta" - Harvey Danger

"Long-Forgotten Fairytale" - The Magnetic Fields
I might never have discoverd them if not for Sims Online. how tragic that would have been.

"Bizarre Love Triangle" - New Order

"Sparkle" - Phish

"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" - Rufus Wainwright

"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" - Squeeze
Great Virginia Beach memories.

"Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" - Stevie Wonder
One of my all time favorites, reminds me of working at Black Cat Books.

"Doctor Worm" - They Might be Giants

"Milbrook" - Rufus Wainwright

"Summertime" - The Sundays
Possibly the happiest song ever.

"Do Your Thing" Basement Jaxx
From the Bend it Like Beckham soundtrack.

"The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side" - The Magnetic Fields

"14th Street" - Rufus Wainwright

"The Good Life" - Weezer

"Mixed Bizness" - Beck

"The Last of the Famous Interational Playboys" - Morrisey

A good day

2006-01-20T11:15:00.000-05:00

I've decided yesterday was a good day. i spent most of the day thinking it was a bad day, but Mandy came home from school and turned it around by eating broccoli (never happened before, even when we told her it was baby trees), and asking me to read Where the Wild Things Are, Bears Bears Bears, and In the Night Kitchen over and over. She likes Sendak and They Might Be Giants, my work is done (until it's time for Jane Austen.)

M is for...

2006-01-17T14:10:00.000-05:00

Guggenheim

2006-01-17T11:10:00.000-05:00

I had a dream last night about an apartment where I could see the Guggenheim museum across a body of water from the bedroom window. Not possible in reality, but it was pretty.

Illustration Friday: E is for... Electricity

2006-01-16T14:14:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: Flavor (C is for Cake) finished

2006-01-11T16:31:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: Sea

2006-01-11T11:55:00.000-05:00

We took my neice to the aquarium for her third birthday last weekend, and she was quite in love with the seals.

Happy New Year!

2006-01-09T20:14:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for your comments and support here. Blogs made 2005 a much better year than I was expecting. Here's to a super-fantastic 2006.

Illustration Friday: Flavor (C is for...) Unfinished

2006-01-05T21:38:00.000-05:00

Well, it's not finished, but I've not had a lot of time this week, so I'm posting it as is, and I'll update it later.

Illustration Friday: Flavor

2005-12-30T16:44:00.000-05:00

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

2005-12-29T11:05:00.000-05:00

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

2005-12-20T13:58:00.000-05:00

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Leather

2005-12-15T22:07:00.000-05:00

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

Harder than Plastic

2005-12-15T22:05:00.000-05:00

All the Flavors

2005-12-15T22:03:00.000-05:00

Happy Holidays!

2005-12-14T11:02:00.000-05:00

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.

2005-12-14T10:59:00.000-05:00

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

2005-12-13T16:00:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-29T11:55:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: small

Routine

2005-11-28T13:13:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-18T17:06:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-18T16:55:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-16T17:17:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-10T14:23:00.000-05:00

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

Sketch: Snowbunnies

2005-11-10T12:56:00.000-05:00

aah!

2005-11-07T18:50:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-06T19:40:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-05T16:41:00.000-05:00

i'm so tired.

Sketch: L is for lonely letter looking at a lily

2005-11-03T22:13:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T22:11:00.000-05:00

I am Super

2005-11-03T21:54:00.000-05:00

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

30

2005-11-03T10:55:00.000-05:00

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...

2005-11-02T13:40:00.000-05:00

First the GOP then the Borg.

Raggedy Mandy

2005-11-01T14:36:00.000-05:00

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

Finally

2005-10-31T20:37:00.000-05:00

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

2005-10-28T10:21:00.000-04:00

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

2005-10-13T09:29:00.000-04:00

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

2005-10-09T11:20:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T09:44:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-21T15:01:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-02T21:15:00.000-04:00

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

A clean desk

2005-08-26T12:34:00.000-04:00

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

2005-07-20T11:23:00.000-04:00

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

First!

2005-07-20T08:19:00.000-04:00

hello to me :)