This year I made a festive contribution to my church in the form of 5 Advent paintings.  Each week leading up to Christmas, the church revealed a new painting, telling a bit of the story leading up to Christ’s miraculous birth.  These whimsical paintings each come with a bit of hand-written scripture which inspired each [...]

It’s been a month or so since updated my blog, so I thought I’d share some of what’s kept me so busy lately!  I’ve finally wrapped up my first book project, Hygiene Matters for Central African Republic (referenced in “Meet Fumo and Fatima” from the previous blog post.) Talk about an adventure!  I’ve learned so [...]

My latest project is inviting some exciting new challenges in character design!  A quick project overview: my client, a humanitarian aid group working in the Central African Republic, asked me to illustrate and design a book that teaches children how avoid getting worms.  According to research, worms is a plight that effects 40% of all [...]

This week’s Illustration Friday word is ‘influence.’ With this in mind, I chose the classic subject of a flower to demonstrate how light and reflection influence an object.  This image is a festival of jewel tones spotted by the eye of my artist friend, Heidi (also mentioned in my post, IF: Gesture) on her recent [...]

The good news is, I didn’t give up on Illustration Friday!  I’ve had a busy spell these past few weeks, but I can’t complain about the influx of work—as a freelancer, that’s great news!  However, things have slowed down these past few days as I wait to hear back from clients.  What better time then [...]

The name of the game is keeping busy right now, and my docket is full of new and exciting work!  I’ve enjoyed some brand new design horizons, and revisited some familiar projects.  Most notably, I’ve been designing smartphone apps.  I should have some examples I’m approved to post shortly. A more recent logo project I’ve completed was [...]

  A few months ago my friend Heidi Beaver and I agreed to read a children’s book together and then illustrate from it.  She chose a childhood favorite from her grandmother’s shelf: Miss Bianca Goes to the Orient, by Margery Sharp.  (Yes, the very same Miss Bianca from Disney’s The Rescuers, and The Rescuers Down [...]

As devastated as I was that I missed my deadline for last week’s Illustration Friday, I decided to complete my vision for ‘remedy’ and finish painting it!  I’ve now posted it to They Draw and Cook.  (I’m really getting hungry for some cookies now!)  Hope you enjoy!

This week’s Illustration Friday word is ‘stay.’  After visiting San Diego last year, my husband and I tossed around the idea of visiting the Northwest region like Oregon, Washington, and Northern California.  Before every vacation, I like to imagine what our stay might be like.  Not only do I think about the places we’ll go, [...]

It’s Friday again!  That means another concept for Illustration Friday!  I’m sad to say, however, I missed my deadline for the Illustration Friday Website… apparently Friday noon is not when everything is due.  From here on out, I’ll get it posted Thursday night. Regardless, I will share my concept for my Thotful followers!  Here is a black and white comp of my [...]