King

Flower Power

Vanity

Happy May Day!

Pet Da Kitty

Catch

This is a dorky gouache painting I did a while ago. The kitties are loosely based on my cats, Igor and Coltrane. Meow.

Calendar: March

The rest of the calendar is available to download for free here.
Just print it out, cut the pages in half, and punch a hole at the top.

Calendar: February

Happy February, love bugs.

Friends with Bugs

Trio

 

Canine accompanists for a little flutist, based on real life experience.

The Gull and the Whale

Mermaid

Happy Friday

Nick Offerman: A Manly Man with Pretty Blue Eyes

gouache, 8.5x9"

Four Goldilocks

Graphite and gouache, approx 12x15"

Four revisions of Goldilocks:

• Elderly Goldilocks. She likes to break out of the retirement community, where the food is terrible and the beds hurt her back. Once she escapes, she then breaks into people's homes, eats their food, and takes naps in their plush, "just right" beds. She's wily, and thoroughly enjoys the challenge of tricking the retirement community employees.  
• Bear Goldilocks. She's a bear who, while picking berries in the forest one day, wanders to a part of the forest she's never been, and gets lost. She comes across the home of three humans, goes inside, devours all their food, breaks a whole lot of furniture, and then falls asleep among the wreckage. She escapes with no harm done to her.
• Huntress Goldilocks. I envisioned her as being a cross between Strider of Lord of the Rings-- a lonely wanderer of the land, haunted by an unresolved past-- and Muldoon of Jurassic Park, mostly because I like his short shorts. When she was a child, three bears mauled and killed her entire family, and left her barely alive. Since then, she has made it her life goal to find those bears and exact revenge. One of the bears' claws was left buried deep in her mother's heart, and she will always wears that claw around her neck until she avenges her family's death.
• Banker Goldilocks. She's a greedy banker who is foreclosing on the Three Bears' home. This may be what Goldilocks grows up to become after her first encounter with the Bears. Considering that as a girl she walked into some strangers' home, ate their food, broke their furniture, and then slept in their beds, I'd say she had a greedy streak in her personality at a young age (assuming she was old enough to be out in the forest alone in the first place.)

On the Train, In Love

On the Train, In Love

8 x 8.5" collage w/ creatures on faux stainless steel contact paper and a crayon heart on a Post-It note

Illustration Friday: Silent

My initial idea for this week's Illustration Friday topic "silent" was two children, friends or sisters, angry at one another but neither wanting to be the first to say "sorry."  As I was sketching this idea, my roommate's cat Cleo was laying at the base of my bed with her back to me.  Looking for a distraction, as I often am, I called her name, and Cleo ignored me.  I called it again, a bit louder, and snapped my fingers to catch her attention. Her ears rotated towards me, but she stubbornly refused to turn to acknowledge me.   I had to prod her with my fingers to garner her attention (yes, I am as stubborn as she is and she was going to pay attention to me, dammit) and voila!  I knew what to draw.

The Top (Illustration Friday "Stripes")

Here's this week's submission for Illustration Friday topic, "Stripes."  I've always been drawn to the layers, or bands, in rocks and mountainsides.  They hint at so much history, each stripe representing an era, a distinct moment in the lifespan of the earth.

Illustration Friday: Scary

Illustration Friday: Scattered