Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

I wanted to thank all of you so much for writing in with your feedback to my last post. I feel so loved and supported… thank you! After listening to all of your thoughts, and many more of my own, I think I am just going to take one month off of blogging, internet reading, [...]

- putting on a poncho and scrubbing the outside of the house in the rain – teaching two four year olds how to do a cartwheel – them teaching me how to pretend to roll down hill on a flat surface – saying goodbye to my brother and alison, who left for Indiana yesterday – [...]

A windshield on a rainy day. That’s me right now. The wipers swoosh back and and forth, momentarily clearing the droplets from the glass and allowing a clear view. But even before the wipers are back at their resting place, the next rain droplet touches down and again starts the process of obstructing the view. [...]

sitting here in an abandoned cafe in raleigh north carolina. The only place I could find with free internet. (Internet should be free everywhere, dammit… although, I hear all mcdonald’s have free wi-fi. No thanks. I’ll probably be smacked down by god if I step inside a McDonalds. Or turn to a boiling vat of [...]

A new illustration for SF Chronicle’s “My Word” section. The story was about a little boy who loved gum… everything else around him melted away and he was content as could be just chewing his gum. I had a lot of fun with these warm colors… I love orange and pink right now. **** I [...]

A new illustration for SF Chronicle’s “My Word” section. The story was about a little boy who loved gum… everything else around him melted away and he was content as could be just chewing his gum. I had a lot of fun with these warm colors… I love orange and pink right now.

- flannel pjs and a thin red woobie with black piping – mug of hot chocolate – all caught up on laundry… fresh sheets – swept floors – remembering the new mental videos I created this past week of bike riding with my mom, brother and husband – more mental snapshots of gardening and digging [...]

does art have to be difficult to be good? and what is good art anyway?

You’ve always got someone around for some mac photobooth fun. one… two… three… POSE!

This little sweet corn baby was for a job for Indianapolis Monthly. The story was about fertility in the Hoosier state, and immediately my mind went to the corn fields and lovely farm land in Indiana. Getting that baby’s face just perfect took about 3 tries. :)

Another Target Giftcard… this time for Mother’s Day. This is fun because it is a giant magnet. The gift card portion pops out and you have a frame to hang on the fridge leftover. Sweet! And pink! :)

I was pleased as punch when art director, Sallie Reynolds Allen, called me about doing a series of illustrations for the SanDiego Art Museum. We ran through a series of sketches and palettes for their Art Alive event and came down to this. I’ll add some more photos when I get some printed samples. Poster: [...]

This job was so much fun. It was a series of illustrations for a booklet about green power. The art director, Ryan Noel, from Borshoff was super to work with and I think the whole piece came out great! For individual illustrations, please visit my Work page here.

Another humming bird illustration! This one went along with a poem.