Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

It does and it is. Finally…
Last year (continuing on into this one) I feel like I picked up most of the pieces of my life and tossed them up in the air violently and all at once. And they’ve remained suspended until recently when they’ve started gently raining back down on me. Settling into their [...]

Wanna see some of the goodies I’ve been working on? I just updated the Work section of my site. (click refresh if you don’t see new stuff.)
I think I’m finally starting to hit a stride in my work. A confidence and peace with it. I know more solidly what I do and what I can [...]

Hey, remember self assignment #3: Document your average day? Yeah, my days got very not-average for over a month. The dust seems to be settling just a bit (most major renovation done, most boxes unpacked, and back to work) and I thought it was time to resume fun stuff like the self-assigments.
So below is my [...]

You know what I like to do when I’m overwhelmed? I like to draw circles. Circles are soothing to me and bring me ideas. I’ve been drawing a lot of circles lately…
Time to dive in and tackle this work load.

I snapped this picture of miss Alison after she ate a blue sucker (hello, obvious). I was looking at it the other day and thought… There she is! Just look at her personality shining. She’s hilarious and feisty and open and beautiful (even with the blue tongue). The blue paired with the warrior face reminded [...]

Still not caught up on sleep… we’ve been working to get the house in some kind of order for Colin’s mom, who is visiting this weekend (and bringing curtains she made for us! sweet!). The house is coming along–just really slowly due to illustration work (flow again, yay!). I’ve been doing a lot of work [...]

whew that was an amazing experience… not enough time though. Flew out Friday night, crashed, set up the show, went to the show, and then flew home Sunday morning.

getting on the tiny plane in SC.

gaining perspective.

much needed coffee.

setting up the show.

can you feel the energy that was there?

one of my favorite people in the world: [...]

Tonight I am dropping everything where it is and heading to LA for the Girly Show. (Maybe taking a step away for the weekend will be refreshing.)
In all the chaos of moving, I forgot to photograph the final paintings before I shipped them off. (oops) I’ll have to photograph them there, I guess. But I [...]

I don’t know if you do this, but it always helps me to design a space when I have some inspiration to go by… I am not so good at making up interior design I guess. So I keep a book of cut out pictures from magazines, paint chips, fabrics, etc. It helps me to [...]

hi friends! I’m in need of some help…
I would love a couple of people to help me moderate the forums on Illustration Friday. Just an extra set of eyes to keep tabs on spam and other no-nos, and also to help keep the forums the place of inspiration, answers and community that it was meant [...]

10 days of intense physical labor.
16 hour days.
6 hours of sleep per night.
3 people.
1 KICK ASS transformation.
I can’t believe how much was accomplished in the last ten days. We tore down ceilings, painted ceilings, painted walls, did more painting, replaced floors, built things, hung doors, you name it. We tackled almost every room in the [...]