Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

Oh summer, how do I love thee.
- ripe red tomatoes that make your mouth hurt they taste so good (eaten over the kitchen sink like an apple)
- colorfully patterned sun dresses with flip flops (dress code around these parts)
- butterfly bushes (which are not the prettiest in my opinion, but the butterflies they attract make [...]

(piece for Balt Sun, mixed media)
I got back from my mom’s on Monday afternoon and have been hustling to get caught up since. Funny how quickly those emails can pile up. The trip was really wonderful. It’s always a re-centering and a more objective look at things when I hang out with my mom. A [...]

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Happy Friday everyone! Above is the 4th painting for the show in September. I am not sure why she looks so sad… but I have been staring at her from across the room and every time I look at her I imagine a different story that leads up to this [...]

Today my dearest Colin turns 30. Thir-tee. That seems like such an adult age. I remember being a little girl and thinking Tammy, my 18-year-old babysitter, was ancient. And 30? I couldn’t even comprehend what that must be like: adult diapers and funny mustaches and smoking pipes maybe. And endless adult conversation that was soooooo [...]

Well, it seems I’ve been tagged with a Thinking Blogger Award and a Schmoozing Blogger Award. Thank you Anette and Jennifer for thinking of me. :)
My assignment then, is to tag five more people…
So here are my Thinking Award recipients:
Colin
I know it’s probably lame to nominate my husband, but his blog does [...]

My guess is that Alaska gets more gasped OH-MY-GODs than any other state. It is just breathtaking. Unbelievably beautiful. And still.
In the week I was there I crammed as much as I could into the days. I went with my friend Maria, but she went for business and had to work most of the time, [...]

Communication Arts No.48 – Illustration Annual

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m off to Alaska!
Talk to you all soon.
xo, p

Happy 4th of July all. I’m happy it’s here because it’s a small break and I’ve been working my ass off lately. And Colin is home and I like the company.
This morning was all about waking up slow, waiting for the sunshine to do it instead of the alarm clock. And then a simple breakfast [...]

The entire weekend was spent creating a new website for Colin (sketch phase Friday night, final coding finished this morning)… Posting all the great work he’s done lately and trying to keep in mind all those web tips that I talked about a few posts down. (So in that light, we decided not to do [...]