September 2006
Black and Orange Halloween Contest!
For this year’s Halloween Contest I thought about how to get the creativity flowing… how to get lots of participants so the end result is a stunning display of all kinds of work… And here is the result: The Black and Orange Halloween Contest! The contest is open to any kind of art your heart [...]
Read more >>color my bobble-head imagination
I just finished a whole bunch of colorful backgrounds for a book I’m working on… They are all around me on the floor and my eyes play games with the colors and patterns… those two could make a good looking watermelon. I wonder where that leaf path leads. Green coffee beans. A magenta water park [...]
Read more >>sweet nothings
I sent art off today to an art director… it was the first part of a spring time campaign I’ve been working on for (I can’t tell you yet), and I’m really nervous because I’ve not heard back yet. I’m so pleased with how the art turned out… so bright and colorful and happy. I [...]
Read more >>Illustration Friday: Change; and CreatAthon
Colin started his new job last week, writing for a new agency called Riggs. Riggs does this really cool thing called CreatAthon, where once a year they take on a dozen or so not-for-profits that could use some help and they stay up all night working on campaigns for them. This year’s CreatAthon fell on [...]
Read more >>thank you
You guys amaze me… thank you for all your kind words and happy thoughts. I am feeling much better. Allowing time to just be. Boxes left unpacked. Laughter seeps in again after the stress is given the big shrug. Slide off the shoulders… Thank you thank you.
Read more >>tell me
Feeling really overwhelmed right now with everthing. Please tell me something good…
Read more >>Illustration Friday: Farm
For the Illustration Friday topic: Farm. (originally created for a Balt Sun story about a graveyard that had no raised graves… only the kind where you can trip over them if you’re not looking out. Pasture-like.)
Read more >>my my, the boxes
I did the above illustration for Balt Sun a few months back, not realizing it was a little off. With some moving experience now under my belt, I should have drawn three times that many boxes around the woman and her huddled down in the corner, crying-mixing-with-laughing. I would still draw the wine though. Good [...]
Read more >>we’ve landed
Yesterday we arrived safely to our small apartment in South Carolina. It was full of surprises… not the gem I’d secretly hoped it’d be, but definitely okay. The balcony, we discovered, looks out over a small patch of trees and we can spot the river through them. This morning it was sparkling like yellow-tinged diamonds [...]
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