goodbye my sargy boy

My Sargent. We loved him so much for 13 amazing years. He was such a sweetheart, he was my puppy; even as he grew older, he was still my puppy.  It's really hard to not see him here laying on the floor by me, I'm going to miss him dearly....

I'M IN COUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE!!!

My green and blue plaid yo-yo necklace has been featured in Country Living Magazine!!!  It is in the November issue article called "Mad About Plaid."  It's kinda strange opening up a magazine and seeing something that you've made... right there. In a magazine.  So now I'm selling a whole bunch of yo-yo necklaces and spending my days creating new ones.  If you're interested, check out my Etsy store! 

new work for Caggio show

New work alongside The She-Bear (below) for my show at Caggio.  Some of the work I'm not entirely happy with but working on these definitely got me back into the swing of traditional media! Hurray for watercolor!!!  From top to bottom:  Meeting the Black Dog, White Fox Wedding, Sedna, The Nightingale, and The Golden Stag.

The She-Bear

The She-Bear.  First of 6 of my larger illos for Caggio.  Watercolor and colored pencil.

MusicExpress Cover!

I was contacted to create an illustration for the December issue of MusicExpress, a music magazine for students. Hooray! I was so happy to get this job and very excited about having the opportunity to get an illustration in print! The one on the right is what the actual cover will look like. (Images are property of the Hal Leonard Corporation)

sedna sketches

Sketches for the main character in a possible comic I'd like to create based on an Inuit myth about Sedna. I did the illustration on the bottom a while ago and never finished it. The sketches on the top are brand-spanking new.

I was also recently inspired after reading the lovely Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics, and a comic I picked up while in Ireland a few years ago called An Tain - which tells of the epic tale from Ireland. I also took a look at my friend's ZvR - featuring amazing artwork by Mr. Ashley Wood! And I loooove the art in Hellboy and An Tain (which is colored using watercolor - beautiful) and it made me want to create a graphic novel telling Sedna's story.

floating island sketch

Quick sketch of the floating island - one environment that will appear in our gallery show.

impatient

Franklin was always impatient when it came to making new friends.

Today I felt that I needed some obnoxiously bright and arbitrary color in my life, and this satisfies me for the moment... Done for IF's word of the week, "impatient".

miss button, mouse hunter

In the last week Miss Button has caught two mice in my house.... Good kitty. But, unfortunately, she doesn't actually kill them - she brings them into the bathroom and chases them around. Both times I heard this funny chirping sound and I turn the light on in the bathroom to see her staring at me with the mouse in her mouth. She has this look on her face that seems to say, "Um, excuse me, can't you see I'm busy here?" Then I have to pick them up and toss them outside, so I'm sure they've found a way back into the house anyways. *sigh* now I have to set traps... or get another cat...

armadillo says...

har har har. ain't he cute? hurray for randomness :D