Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

- sunset pizza parties on the beach. completed with fresh cantaloupe and homemade chocolate chip zucchini bread. yum! – running around in just a diaper because it’s just too hot for clothes. – taking a weekend ayurveda workshop. so inspired by all this new info! wondering how/if I can do something with this. – working [...]

My work has picked back up and is starting to pour back in (looks like my mojo resurfaced just in time!)… this was a recent project I finished. A couple of illos for Country Living Magazine. I love old fashioned swimming caps, don’t you?

I recently had the pleasure of working with Country Living Magazine on story called “The Joy of Swimming”. It was a sweet little story about one woman’s love of swimming that lasted from childhood through her old age. Here’s what the illustrations looked like: The interior spread (click on image to enlarge):

I taught my first yoga class tonight. Oh yes I did. It was so. much. fun. I can’t wait to do it again next week!

The weekend workshop was AMAZING. Nothing short of beautiful, fantastic, hard, information-packed, crazy fun, super sexy juicy goodness! We talked for hours about big bellies, birthing mamas, inner goddesses, and giving love through the mama journey. I am so grateful that I was able to go. I’ve thanked Colin 6 hundred times for being super-dad [...]

I just gotta tell you what I’m so excited about: tomorrow (friday) through sunday I am taking an intensive (17 hours!) pre-natal yoga teacher training workshop. Just listen to this description: Sarah Longacre’s Blooma Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is all about finding the goddess inside of the instructor and training you in a sequence that [...]

“It is the enjoyment of every step in the process of doing; everything, not only the isolated piece we label art. If accomplishing is the only goal, all that it takes to reach that goal is too slow, too fatiguing — an obstacle to what you want to achieve. If you want to rush to [...]

Last Thursday I visited a yoga studio that was out in the middle of nowhere. County Road something or other, turn left at the pond, make a right when you hear crickets. No sign out in the yard. And even the numbers were scratched off the mailbox so I couldn’t tell if I was at [...]

it was a squirrel until we ate his ears off.

back porch sitting, breezes, little girls in big bows, reading about the amish way of life, gobbling up tomatoes, flea markets, honey, sprinklers, dreaming of sustainability, gathering for garage sales, porch yoga.

Early summer brought with it a pause in my work. It was the longest I’d been without work since I started my illustration career over six years ago. As a freelancer, I prepare for slow times financially, so thankfully it wasn’t devastating for us in that way. But I am glad things have recently picked [...]

My friend Katrina is up to something pretty darn cool. It’s called the TerraPlaces Project and anyone can join in. Here’s the scoop: “The purpose of this project is to observe the effects of sitting with an outdoor place for a certain length of time. The study officially began August 1. Phase one is open [...]