- Another Target card by yours truly is in stores now… this time for weddings! Something blue for the happy couple?
- I gave Colin’s site a complete overhaul. I like this one much better. It’s cleaner and plays with the writer concept more.
- I am working on a few ways to get new art [...]

I was recently interviewed by life coach Sheri Gaynor, whose mission is to empower women to live extraordinary lives. To kickstart 08 Sheri talks to me about my leap into full time freelance illustration. Her website, Feisty Females, is also chock full of good stuff. Have a listen if you get a moment. (You can [...]

Hooray, it’s out in stores! Christine texted me to tell me she spotted it. hee!
Doing the happy wiggle dance over here!

In case you haven’t noticed, you are looking at a brand new shiny penelope illustration website! (If you can’t see it, refresh your browser or clear your cache). Oh man… am I excited about it!
This new site is built entirely in WordPress, with the help of Brianna Privett of Utopian.net. (Well, I say “help”, [...]

A while back I worked with talented art director Nicole Fikes on two pieces for a website she was launching called Daphne&Clio. The site is meant for weddings — a place to get inspiration for wedding color palettes and to order coordinating prints for guest favors… special gifts that kind of embody the happy feeling [...]

(piece for Balt Sun, mixed media)
I got back from my mom’s on Monday afternoon and have been hustling to get caught up since. Funny how quickly those emails can pile up. The trip was really wonderful. It’s always a re-centering and a more objective look at things when I hang out with my mom. A [...]

The entire weekend was spent creating a new website for Colin (sketch phase Friday night, final coding finished this morning)… Posting all the great work he’s done lately and trying to keep in mind all those web tips that I talked about a few posts down. (So in that light, we decided not to do [...]

My darling dearest husband recently wrote an article for my rep Scott Hull about the Scott Hull Trigger Awards. It’s posted on Altpick if you’d like to read it… Go Colin! :)

Hello all,
The 4th Newsletter is now online… (if you’re on my mailing list and got two emails from me - I’m really sorry. I’m not sure how that happened). And I also said “Happy Thursday” in my email… and yeah, it’s only Wednesday. I’m a little ahead of myself. (doh!)
Anyway, sorry all around. Click here [...]

above illustration for cricket magazine
Hi there and happy Friday!
I just wanted to poke my head in to show you a new interview done with yours truly. Hope you enjoy it! (It’s pretty short.)
Okay, back to work… working on a space scene today! (trying out a new technique) Fun!
xo

I am probably supposed to be all cool and like: “Yeah, I did a piece for the NYT op-ed. No biggie.” but I’m secretly doing a little wiggle dance with my index fingers bobbing around in the air. hee! I was thrilled they called and thrilled that I was able to do a piece they [...]

Fourth episode is up… (final painting stage)
(and a chance to see one of my new pieces that I haven’t blogged about here yet.)
Gotta get back to work… so much to do I feel a little insane…

Third episode is up… (finished sketch phase)
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Sorry… still no time for a real post. Still swamped. Soon though. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Second episode is up… (rough sketch phase)

Design Sessions: Notes on Design has asked me to be a guest blogger on their site this week. Their audience is mainly design students and those just entering the field, so I thought it would be fun and relevant to walk them through how the illustration processs works… from project beginning to final art. And [...]

Today is the launch of the new Illustration Friday Blog… meant to serve up warm dishes of inspiration and cools sips of creativity. I think it will be a lot of fun and a good source of procrastination. hee.
We have 8 different authors to give a variety of posts, so it will be a good [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Katherine Dunn for Illustration Friday. Her work is so beautiful and she’s such a big inspiration to me. She seems to have balance down to a science (an organic, natural science of course). Click here to read it. I hope you will enjoy her work too.
(And speaking of [...]

To start of the year creatively, I am involved in an upcoming art show called The Girly Show opening February 10th in LA. I am one of six fantastically artistic and creative women who are participating. I will have four brand new pieces in the show. So, if you’re in LA, stop by on February [...]

Looks like I struck a chord with the anti-party thing, huh. I didn’t realize so many people were opposed to parties like me! I think we should band together and have an anti-party party. At my new house… yeah! You all can come over and we’ll each bring a book that we’re into and something [...]

Hello friends!
The new prints are now in the LopiePop shop… hot off the press! Click here to visit the shop! (FYI: The prints are a limited run of 50.)
*quick note: please get orders in by December 20 if you want it shipped before 2007. My last post office drop will be on December 21st. :)

Don’t you hate it when you can seem to draw anything?! GAH! I can see what I want in my head and it just doesn’t come out that way. It comes out all lop-sided and quirky and squirmy. I am not going for lop-sided quirky squirmy. I want sweet and smart and lovely. But no, [...]

Thank you all for participating in the Black & Orange Contest! It was an huge array of amazing work… Everyone would win if it were up to me (and I had a million dollars to spend on Dick Blick gift certificates!). Our judges definitely had their work cut out for them. Here are the three [...]

The 3rd Penelope Illustration Newsletter is up. Click here to read it.
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Hope you like it!
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Okay, I gotta get rid of some LopiePop inventory before I move. So the Tshirts are now on sale for a cheap $10 including shipping (US residents only). If you’ve been waiting, now’s the time!
I have only one Small left in the blue. And one gray tshirt left which is also a Small. So if [...]

Today I can finally tell you what I’ve been so busy working on / planning / thinking about / doing lately. It’s been consuming all my thoughts. I’ve hated keeping this a secret, but it’s one of those things you have to be hush hush about for various reasons…
We are moving to South Carolina. In [...]

Online Turkish magazine, Derggi, featured my artwork this month. Check it out here. (You have to wait a moment for it to load.) If anyone can translate, let me know what the article says! hee.

I am starting a new format for my newsletter… it’s going to be online from now on. That way I can make it prettier for you by giving you pictures along with the news. Yay! Those signed up for my newsletter got all the first one a few days ago. If you aren’t signed up [...]

Hi there,
I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately. My blog went down… But as you can see, I’ve got a new blog thanks to brilliant Brianna, who switched me over to WordPress. I’m very excited to have some extra functions with this new platform… Thank you, B!
I’ve done a mini-update to my whole site, [...]