idea for Paradigm show

New idea for my upcoming show at Paradigm Coffee & Music in October. I want to do these Victorian-type silhouettes with more of a stylized twist, and they will all be focused on elements of nature and each contain a different girl's silhouette and animal. Keep in mind this is just a loose rendering and will be more detailed. I'm thinking of making them more 3-dimensional and doing some embroidery on fabric as well as painting. We'll see how it goes....

in progress work for gallery show

In progress work for a final piece that will be in the gallery show. Done in watercolor and pencil. After doing all the painting I plan to go back into it with pencil to add texture. It depicts the transformation of the animals on the island from real creatures into mechanical shadows of themselves...

skirt purse and chubby mack

This week I made a purse out of a pleated A-line skirt I got at Goodwill for a couple bucks. Isn't it cute! It's a bit floral and girly for me to use so I'm sellin' it on my Etsy store! I also did these quick drawings of my dog, Mack - and I thought he looked so cute and chubby so I decided to post them... He's not really that chubby - I exaggerate :)

craft fair success!!

The Dandeliondog was a success at the craft fair! HURRAY!! We weren't sure how well we would do since this was our very first craft fair - but I think we did awesome for first-timers! We made just over $500 :D We sold mostly our totebags (great for the go-green grocery shopper), and purses - including my yellow whale purse and the green striped bird purse I posted earlier (you can see them if you scroll down). Didn't sell many stuffed animals (two squirrels and my blue armadillo) but I would have been happy to just sell one. It was actually a lot of fun to see what everyone else had to sell - our stuff was a lot different than everyone else's - in a good way :) We are planning on doing the winter craft fair at Parkside as well in December (if we get in - they have limited spaces so it is a juried application process). Wish us luck!

stuffed animals and shrinky dinks

More stuffed animals for the craft fair!! An army of armadillos, several squirrels, and a lonely beaver, bunny and skunk. I gotta get sewing - the craft fair is this coming Saturday! I'm running out of time... Also a few shrinky dink charms I'll be making into necklaces for myself :)

extremely random sketch = possible new idea for show?

In October I will be showing work at Paradigm Coffee & Music in Sheboygan! Hurray! I was sitting around last night watching Hellboy and trying to draw some stuff for the gallery show, but it wasn't happening... so I started drawing this wolf and then some trees and I started to dig it (and I know the wolf's face is a little funky but oh well). So, since I've had wolves on the brain from doing the gallery sketches - I figured I might as well keep the theme going and do more with wolves for the Paradigm show. The bottom two drawings inspired me to create the main character in the story for our current gallery project (sketches below).

mural sketch

sketches for a large 10 x 8 mural that will be in the gallery show... oh man, large-scale work scares me...