Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

Here’s the third piece I just finished for the show. Still unsure about titles… so for now, it’s temporarily called “pink”.

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Show details: Opening September 7th (the day after my birthday!) in Indianapolis Indiana at the Harrison Center. The show is part of the Curious City event sponsored by my old [...]

Okay, a few posts ago I promised some web tips… how to build an effective website. I am going to qualify this by saying: I am certainly NOT an expert on websites or their effectiveness. And I am going to further qualify this by saying: In fact, I am pretty much a web-idiot. So take [...]

Illustration Friday

Anamama tagged me a few posts ago. A few random facts about me.
1) I am obsessed with all things blue and white right now. I used to especially HATE dark blue, but now I can’t get enough. Give me a couple more months and I’ll be over it and want to change my house again. [...]

You guys uplift me so much! Thank you for all your kind responses to painting #1.
Here is the second in the series…

(approx 19″x29″, mixed media on paper)
So much going on right now. I’ll keep it short, but I have so much bubbling I’d like to share with you… soon I hope!
xo

I have been really trying to limit the number of gallery shows I take on each year because they are so time consuming… I have to fight my tendency to say yes to everything because I’m so excited about the possibilities. But I know it’s not good for me because I think that the good [...]

(click for larger view)
I attended only two sessions of the HOW conference. One was about how to use handmade stuff in your design, which I found inspiring… found paper, ink blots, imperfection… Things we already do, but it was nice just to see examples. And the other was about designing a kick ass website, [...]

I’m back. Not quite sure what to say yet about everything. So I’m just going to give me a day more to simmer and give you this space scene. (It was used as a backdrop for people to paint on at the conference… fun!).
I do know that it’s good to be home. I missed my [...]

Dragonfly is a print of an original artwork on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, archival inks and a plastic sleeve to protect it until framing. Measures 8×10 inches on the image with a white border for matting or framing. Part of a series of three. See the other two here and here.
Available for sale here at [...]

Sorry for my absense lately… I am slammed with work this week! And tomorrow I leave for the HOW Conference in Atlanta. I hope it’s fun… anyone out there going? Come say hello!
Click here for pics of last year’s event.
xo,
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My darling dearest husband recently wrote an article for my rep Scott Hull about the Scott Hull Trigger Awards. It’s posted on Altpick if you’d like to read it… Go Colin! :)

From art director to illustrator.