Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

- lady bug nieces – dances in crunchy leaf piles – last of porch sitting – pumpkin ale taste tests – yellow star leaves – bee costume grumpies – stark afternoon light – turquoise and red-orange stages – spiny tree tops – afternoon chai tea breaks – lentil soup and grilled cheese – hand held [...]

Veda is 8 months old. Time has flown by and I can’t believe I’m looking at such a big girl already. She’s all smiles usually. As happy as can be. And we are having so much fun. We love exploring the world together… picking apples, walking through the woods, hearing sounds, reading books, singing songs. [...]

Hello friends, I just posted a bunch of new work, including the piece above, in the News Section if you care to take a peek. Been busy! Hope your day is good. :)

This was a fun series I did for AARP. The article was all about vacations. So we started out with this half-page illustration about different sites where you can find good deals on vacations. Here’s the illustration: Next up were stay-cation alternatives. And they asked for little icons depicting some of these. So we have [...]

This illustration was for ad agency Cole & Weber, for their client – the Washington Lottery. The idea was a bunch of ideas on how people could spend the moolah if they won. Here’s the whole piece: Here are two close ups:

This was a pitch piece that I did for publisher Simon&Schuster. They were pitching artists to do new covers for Andrew Clements books. So this is my idea for the Frindle cover. I wasn’t chosen (bummer), but it was a fun piece to do anyway. Wrap around cover is shown here: And here’s a close [...]

I did up a new cover piece for Cummins. (see below). Click here to see the others in the series. (And they ended up publishing it!)

Marietta College called on me to do their magazine cover celebrating the 175th anniversary of the school. They wanted a classic look that celebrated their heritage and the look of campus (think lots of brick and trees…kind of New England style). I sketched a few ideas and they picked this one. A single student reading [...]

Photo by Colin – introducing Veda to goats. (My sister has a GINORMOUS dog that Veda loves so I had a hunch she’d like the petting zoo. I was so right. She laughed her head off at the goats and donkeys.) – working a bunch. (I’ll have tons of new work to share soon.) – [...]

This weekend was yoga training weekend numero 2. Saturday and Sunday. And I welcomed the break from everything (work, home, people I talk to regularly, baby). It’s really nice to be able to get away by myself once in a while I do something I love just for me. Remember that I’m still me without [...]

I wrote a while back about working with a dream client… remember? Well, I can finally tell you who it was: Starbucks! I worked on website animations for their Frappaccino line. I wrote about them all in my News Section, if you want to peek. Or you can check out the Starbucks site to view [...]

I recently had the huge pleasure of working with a client that I put on my “dream clients” list a few years back: Starbucks! This job was for their Frappuccino line. These were a series of illustrations that were turned into animations for the Starbucks website. (There is a print campaign also, which I’ll write [...]

(Click image to view larger) Hello! I just did a quick write up about a new piece (above) in my News Section of the site. Check it out if you have a minute! (This was the mural design I mentioned on my facebook page. So fun!)

Two weeks ago, I participated, once again, in CreateAthon. 2009 marks my 4th year of CreatAthon. (CreatAthon is an annual event where creative agencies push for 24 hours straight to do campaigns for non-profits who ordinarily couldn’t afford agency work. The work is pro bono and is usually really fun and powerful because there is [...]