Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

Yesterday I turned down a job. And it wasn’t easy. Because usually I say yes. I like to say yes. Sure. I can get it done. No problem. And I’ll make it look easy. And you won’t even know that I sacrificed my downtime for it. To you, it will look seamless and beautiful. And [...]

Here are some close ups and buying info for the solo show pieces, if you are interested. I’ll try to take more later (busy this week!):
This one is quite large… I realize I should have put something in the picture for scale. oops…

and some close ups:

This one is the same size as the blue one…

Here’s [...]

I’ve been doing some good journaling lately. Lots of lists seem to be popping up in the pages (one of my favorite ways to journal!). Lists like — fun things to do, things to see, places I’d like to visit, collaboration ideas, etc. But one list in particular has me thinking: “Things that scare me.”
And [...]

Some people have emailed inquiring about these paintings, so I thought I’d direct you to the place to buy if you’d like: these four pieces will be available through the Sq Ft Gallery, and are $450 each. Show opens Sept 1st, but they will be for sale on line starting Sept 3rd. (I think if [...]

I am DONE (!) with all the artwork for this solo show. In the end, I decided to reuse one older piece and two oversized prints from a previous show. So in all I have ended up creating 21 pieces of art in the last month. More than exhausting. But I feel really good about [...]

The first thing I’m going to do when I finish these paintings is CLEAN MY STUDIO. oh my. It’s like a tornado hit in here.

just a quick entry today to show you another piece I’ve been working on… I worked on a painting yesterday that just WOULD NOT TURN OUT… I got so frustrated that I smeared black paint all over it and yelled at it and pulled its hair (cat fight!). Then I started tearing it to shreds. [...]

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(11×15, mixed medium)
14 paintings finished (two are being re-used from other shows), 6 more to go. I finally caught up with myself over this week. Painting this much has been a bit crazy (read: major ups and downs in outlook), but fun… yesterday I really played with some new techniques and came up with the [...]

One of my kitties is sick… He’s in good hands with our vet (and thank heaven there are emergency vets), but please send some goodness our way that he gets better soon. Poor little freckle nose…

I’ve been using some different techniques with some of the solo show pieces (are you sick of me talking about this show yet? It’s totally consumed my life, so please forgive me). Leaving behind the linework that I thought made my work what it was. Venturing into new territory involving graphite (like the nashville pieces [...]

(taken with a camera phone)
“Your mind and your external reality are in a constant state of flux. Every second of your life you are creating or constructing your reality through what you think about and what you take in from your environment… Since you are meditating all the time, the question is, ‘what are you [...]

August this time around seems to be all about work. I am beginning to think that artists who do a lot of shows tend to have work laying around that they can ship off if called upon. I don’t. So this weekend was more painting. This time for the show in Nashville (also opening in [...]

This piece was inspired by last week’s Illustration Friday topic: Moon.

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)

Here’s a project I’ve worked on recently under the radar. A design project! Oh my… how I’ve missed design. I truly love it… the thought process behind the work, connecting with people through different ideas and materials, etc. I do that with illustration, too, I suppose, but I sometimes miss doing blown out campaigns that [...]

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)
This is the 6th piece. 14 more to go for the solo show. (And about 4 to create also for the show opening in Nashville, TN). I’m a paintin’ fool, I tell ya.
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I have been SO inspired lately. It’s like little ideas come floating by [...]

One of my mini painting journals.

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