Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

My birthday is next week (the day the moving truck comes to take all our stuff) and all I want is one thing: our house to sell. Pretty please… I’ve been good all year.

This piece was created for a story that ran in the Baltimore Sun. The author recalls Hurricane Hazel of 1954. She was a little girl when the hurricane hit and had to run home from school when the weather got bad enough for the nuns to dismiss them. She ran the mile to her home [...]

Today we had our garage sale. Lots of our stuff went home with kind-eyed strangers. And lots of it is still in the garage waiting for me to pack it all up for a big Am-Vets delivery. But our house is starting to feel empty… not like home anymore. All empty rooms and towering boxes… [...]

During a phone conversation yesterday with a few of my friends, I told them how stressful this time right now is for me… Worried about the house selling (no bites yet), busy sorting and packing all our belongings, working on a bunch of really fun assignments (had a good drawing day yesterday… I needed that!), [...]

Take a deep breath and let it go. Let it go. Let it go…

The packing has begun. And it’s begun with the dangerous question: keep or toss. Dangerous because I always lean toward toss. I want to get rid of everything… start anew. A clean slate. If I haven’t worn it, looked at it, touched it, used it, loved it, thought of it in the last year or [...]

I am having a helluva time trying to concentrate today. I feel like I’m being pulled in a million directions. Canceling my life here in the midwest getting ready for the move south. And it comes with so much stress. Selling a house is taxing! No wonder they make buying easier… you need the break [...]

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Okay, I gotta get rid of some LopiePop inventory before I move. So the Tshirts are now on sale for a cheap $10 including shipping (US residents only). If you’ve been waiting, now’s the time!
I have only one Small left in the blue. And one gray tshirt left which is also a Small. So if [...]

Today I can finally tell you what I’ve been so busy working on / planning / thinking about / doing lately. It’s been consuming all my thoughts. I’ve hated keeping this a secret, but it’s one of those things you have to be hush hush about for various reasons…
We are moving to South Carolina. In [...]

Professional goals, Chase Bank, moving south.

For this week’s illustration friday topic: play.

Gallery Show – August 2006

Here is one of the paintings I completed while in SC. It was for the Baltimore Sun… a story about a woman who remembers going to girl scout camp when she was ten years old.
I liked painting this one because I played with different borders before landing on the branches (I don’t normally do borders [...]

Well, I’m back in flat-as-a-pancake Indiana and I’ve been tongue-tied since I’ve returned. Not sure where my head is or what is the clear message that is coming forth from the mind chatter. I just kind of want to let it settle. Savor it all for a few moments more.
Being around Tom and Alison [...]

While it was still dark out on Sunday morning I sleepily crept into the old, no-air-conditioning volvo we have and started down the long highway to my brother and Alison’s house in Beaufort, South Carolina. I hadn’t watched the sun come up in a while… and it was beautiful. Conditions were foggy, so you could [...]

Online Turkish magazine, Derggi, featured my artwork this month. Check it out here. (You have to wait a moment for it to load.) If anyone can translate, let me know what the article says! hee.