Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts

daily painting #1

Oct 9, 2012


Ive been trying a new exercise, doing a painting a day in an ity-bity watercolor journal! Sometimes there is so much to do in a day, errands, emails, other work that I never get to painting anything, so I decided at the very minimum I would paint one small thing. Here we go!

Bella & Luci's book!

Sep 10, 2012



The last six months have been spent working on a secret book project, that I've been dying to share for forever! I finally finished the illustrations in July and had a couple copies printed. It was a surprise book for friends of ours (and awesome photographers at Bellalu Photography!) Lindsey & Nathan Freitas and their adorable daughters Bella & Luci. The idea was planted in my head last December, when Lindsey mentioned to me how she would love to have a storybook about her two girls. I had so much fun writing, and sketching out the thumbnails for the book trying to figure out the flow of a full 32 page book (and trying my hardest not to mention anything to them the whole time!). And finally after months of multiple dummies and redrawing, I tackled the final step: painting 34 watercolor illustrations! Whew it's done, and I'm pretty proud of it!


heres a couple in-progress sketches from my book dummy:

and the finishes:











new promos

May 21, 2012

My spring goal was to send out some new promo postcards to book publishers. After a year and a half of revamping my portfolio, and working on some new paintings, I finally put together a brand new set of promo mailers to send out! ( I can't believe its been since fall of 2010 ) It feels really good to have spent more time developing my style and having fun with what I really like to illustrate. This time around I included response cards, and Im glad I did because I already got some positive responses back! So they are off to my targeted publishers! woohoo.. next project book dummy submission...

my cover letter, envelope and postcards

New Illustration: The Summoning

Feb 27, 2012

The Summoning

A newer painting I did for a novel cover concept. Its watercolor & digital, although Im trying not to overuse the digital aspect. I love the bright translucency of colors you can get with watercolors alone, but my photo/ scanning looses some of that. (Time to get a larger flatbed scanner!)

Edwardian Beetles

Feb 6, 2012

Edwardian beetles! Luke and I went to the Edwardian Ball in January and it was such a magical festive night! So many great costumes, and creativity everywhere. Plus dancing in a fancy dress and top hat? yes please! We will have to go again next year.

New Illustration: The Beetle Ball

Jan 13, 2012



A new illustration I have been working on over the last 6 months! These critters have been waiting on me forever, and whew its finally finished. Now time to go find some blue grass music and dance!!

Today is brought to you by the letter....

Mar 10, 2011

Since the new year started I decided I wanted to do more personal projects for pure fun. Do I decided to take a letter of the alphabet everyday and draw things that start with that letter. So far I'm on the letter "P" yay thats a good letter haha! (which means I didn't do it every day, but pretty close!). I found that by doing this I felt freed up to just draw without really thinking if it was correct or even"good."

So here are a few pages out of my sketchbook :)

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