Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

I am curious… How many of you, dear readers, are into organic versus traditional house cleaning? Is it natural-and-time-tested or hard-core-science-means-progress warfare in your household?
I have been thinking a lot about this and have taken up organic cleaning up pretty hard core… vinegar, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and lemons are my arsenal against germs and [...]

Fourth episode is up… (final painting stage)
(and a chance to see one of my new pieces that I haven’t blogged about here yet.)
Gotta get back to work… so much to do I feel a little insane…

Two weeks ago I joined an actual yoga class (instead of just doing the videos). I found it on google and did a drive by to see if it looked decent or scary and was kind of weirded out by the fact that it was a residence. An average looking (though, with cool landscaping) house. [...]

Third episode is up… (finished sketch phase)
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Sorry… still no time for a real post. Still swamped. Soon though. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Second episode is up… (rough sketch phase)

Design Sessions: Notes on Design has asked me to be a guest blogger on their site this week. Their audience is mainly design students and those just entering the field, so I thought it would be fun and relevant to walk them through how the illustration processs works… from project beginning to final art. And [...]

I have no time this week to write all the stuff I want to tell you (so much!)… I am battling the to-do list from hell. But I had to share this shot of the tree in my front yard. Flowering pink. (more pink!) It’s our first spring in this house, and it’s fun to [...]

Design Sessions Essay

Today is the launch of the new Illustration Friday Blog… meant to serve up warm dishes of inspiration and cools sips of creativity. I think it will be a lot of fun and a good source of procrastination. hee.
We have 8 different authors to give a variety of posts, so it will be a good [...]

My husband was eating lunch at a sandwich shop a few weeks ago and notice a story posted on the wall. Short, black and white on plain paper… Intrigued, he read it and came home to tell me about it later. I thought it was so great. One of those stories that gives you goosebumps [...]

Thanks for all your compliments on the new banner… it was definitely time for some spring pink, don’t you think? I’m ready for the flowers to say hello.
Here is the piece that I cut up to create the banner:

This is a piece done for the Baltimore Sun about a bride-to-be that was hesitant to immerse [...]

I am giggling because yesterday a professional (woo-woo) photographer came over to photograph me for a Skirt magazine article. She set up a “scene” at my desk, showing my paint brushes and a paintings… concentrated on lighting, getting good angles and all that fancy stuff. (She showed me all the movie star tricks: shoulders curved, [...]

(Click on the mini-pic above to see it full size.)
Ikea was pretty overwhelming. So many good things in there and when you only go twice a decade or so, you feel like you gotta see everything they have. Needless to say, we were in there for a good long while. (thank god they have a [...]

remember that game? how frantic and wild and fun it was? yeah… I’m headed to ikea in the morning. It’ll probably be much the same…
(illo above is from a recent assignment I did which i will show in full as soon as I get clearance. rock on and have a good weekend!)
xo