Princess Roxanne

Ohhhhhmygoodness it's been way too long since I've updated!! For my fiance's birthday back in April, I painted a portrait of his beautiful shepherd/rottweiler mix, Roxxy :) Watercolor with colored pencil.

christmas for the kiddos!

I have a nephew and two nieces that all got some homemade presents from me this Christmas - including some hand-embroidered felt ornaments! yay! And ever since my nephew was born (almost 3 years ago), I've always taken his gifts, wrapped them in brown kraft paper, and drawn on them with sharpie and paint markers, so now I do it for all of them. Beckett is the only one who's old enough to recognize the drawings, but I still like to do it. Love those kiddos :3

wee painting!

This is from way back when - I'd say maybe around 2007? My friend Mie and I sometimes made "wee paintings." This little guy is 3x3" and I found it in with a bunch of relics from my illustration studio.
*sigh*
I so do miss having a studio... Just posted it for funsies - it's the only one I kept and I still love it.

forest friends

Some more of my homemade stamps!  I've been so crazy busy making gifts for Christmas that I haven't had time to do my self-portrait or any comics, so once the holidays are over I can finally get back on track!

gettin' crafty

I got a bit of work done this weekend, though not as much as I had hoped. For the last couple years, I've been making my own wrapping paper by drawing with sharpie and white paint markers onto brown kraft paper - but this year I'm gettin' all fancy and making my own stamps to make my wrapping paper.  I carved these stamps out of giant super cheap erasers and I must say, I think they worked out rather well.

creature feature friday!

bovid x edmontosaurus?  I have no idea what this crazy creature is that I created, but we'll just call him a "big, beefy ruminant with funky nasal air sac"...

patterns

New stuff! OK, so when presented as a set (which was my original intention), these aren't very well balanced (color-wise or in composition), but I really enjoy them as separate pieces. Printed them on 150lb cold press watercolor paper and mounted them onto wood panels.  But they really should be laser printed instead of my crappy little inkjet, since it's not as crisp, but I ran out of time.  I'll be giving these to my nephew for his bedroom :)

conceptual ramblings

Friend needs creature designs for a graphic novel. warm up sketches.

vinyl fantastisch

Lovesick Robot made my design into a sweet vinyl sticker that now resides on my laptop. Awesome sauce.

Valentine's Day: here I come

Hurray for Valentines!  I got a bit stuck on the whole "deer" theme, but I'm workin on some others...

holiday cards!

New Holiday Cards!  I still have to print them and get them up in the Etsy shop... before Thanksgiving... So now I NEED to speed on up to MKE and visit digicopy.

secrets

Dik-dik and thylacine have lots of secrets... ssshhhhh...