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