Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

- walking across the park to buy a chocolate chip cookie from the bakery.
- coming back with a surprise butternut cinnamon roll for colin.
- striped, mult-colored leg warmers. Yum. Gotta find more.
- bath time in the claw foot tub.
- being madly in love with my husband. I like sweater season because he’s all fluffy and [...]

I’ve been doing Creat-a-thon for three years now. It’s a day where you work around the clock to help out non-profits. This time I worked with Vision 3 Creative on a really unique project — interior space design for a thrift store who helps needy people. We had to come a way to differentiate the [...]

Shambala Publications called wanting a cover image for their fall catalog, and I jumped all over it. How exciting… getting to play with fall colors and zen-like books — two of my favorite things. The masthead needed room at the top so I tried playing with some interesting perspectives. And they chose this one. After [...]

I had the pleasure of once again working with art director Ryan Noel at Borshoff on more pieces for the IPL campaign. This time on the first Plugged In Newsletter. I did the type for Plugged In as well as the three spots (desk lamp, e-bill pay, and gardening). Super fun.

This is a poster for Panera Bread that I recently finished for a test store in the midwest. I was thrilled to be able to play with typography as well as the illustration. Fun stuff!

This piece goes along with the Treefarm campaign I completed for TBD. A map of the community for the Treefarm website. I just loved playing with these sherbet colors. :)

This piece was for a short section in Prevention Magazine called “Mind”. The article was about how asking your spouse the basic question of “How was your day?” every night can improve your relationship. No, really!

… this time it’s all about blogging. It’s another quickie. Click here to go to Stephanie’s site. Enjoy!
I’ll write more in a while… gotta get a few jobs out the door this morning.
xo, p

Hi all! Just a quick heads up about an interview I did with Spraygraphic. It’s a shortie (and has new art!). Enjoy.
xo, p

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the experience of birth from the baby’s perspective. Or at least trying to imagine what it will be like for her that chilly day in February.
Right now she’s all snuggly and warm in her world… in my belly.  She kicks and rolls and can hear my voice and [...]

This weekend Colin’s mom came up and we worked on the nursery. One of the few rooms in the new house we are finished with. And I’m really happy with it! It feels very cheerful and fun. My original idea was to do robin’s egg blue walls with orange accents, but the room is so [...]

It seems so appropriate to write about the Squam Earth Art class I taught now that it’s fall. The weather changing day to day and the all vibrant colors. It’s like nature’s big hurrah.
Below is the worksheet I handed out to begin the class. It pretty much sums up the idea of the class and [...]

Today feels sacred and it reminded me to start doing “My Sacred Life” images again. I missed this little exercise of slowing down and spotting the beauty and wonder in each day. Cause it’s there, even when life feels all topsy turvy, like it has lately.
Something about the fall light… crisp days making me pull [...]

Two weeks ago I led a two-day editorial illustration workshop in Chicago at Columbia College. Teaching this workshop for the second time went much smoother because I learned so much teaching this same class at Squam earlier this year. I learned that I needed to offer the students some way to gather reference, that I [...]

After a long, arduous buying process, we finally moved into our new house last weekend. And it took rearranging a couple of times, but we have the studio set up (it’s tiny), and have basic furniture placement working now in the rest of the house too (read: the couch is actually in the living room! [...]

Hi all!
Just a quickie post since I’m sick. (boo to that!)
I wanted to let you all know that there is a TON of my work for sale online right now. Prices range, so hopefully everyone can afford a little something for yourself or for a gift perhaps?… :)
Art Stream Studios
Nahcotta
Enjoy your day, friends!
xo, p

Hello there.
It’s been far too long since I’ve written, but I got swept up in the tidal wave of recent events that I haven’t had a moment to sit down to write. I have so much I want to tell you about … where do I even begin?
I am sitting right now in a penthouse [...]