Christmas with Creative and Curious Kids

I have had my friend Jennifer, writer of the blog Creative and Curious Kids, on my blog roll for years now. She's on my blog roll under "Jen who raises creative kids".


Jennifer just did a lovely post of my art in her blog and I would like you to know about her also. Aside from being a wonderful and talented person she also home schools her children (which automatically makes her my hero) and is extremely creative. Check out her blog for some great crafty ideas and activities that you can do with your children.

Here are a couple of my favorite ideas:

 

 Thanks again Jennifer.

Handmade News

Lori Ward from Handmade News chose my illustration to put in an article that she has written. This is a fabulous site and I am so happy that she found me. Check it out! Lori is the owner of a quirky jewelry asylum called Risky Beads and the founder of Handmade Highway.

Click on the photo to get there directly or click here.

Thank you Lori. :o)

Art Collectors and Treasury

I would like to introduce you to two beautiful girls who have excellent taste in art! Alison and Madeline are not only artists themselves but they have become collectors. I am proud to say that they are the daughters of my dear friend Christy who I am back in contact with after 20 years! Yay! They also know how to frame things well too. Couldn't have picked out more perfect frames myself girls...thanks for digging my art. I look forward to see your creations in the future. :o)


I am also pleased that I was chosen for an Etsy treasury by TheWorldIsMyStudio.etsy.com. Thank you so much and that is a perfect treasury - all things Paris, my favorite!!


Lastly, I am working on a few new sculpts and will be posting them in progress soon. My youngest decided recently to get into my black paint and paint some of my sculpts that were in progress. I have to rework them to be able to cover the black...heavy sigh...they are only young once and I guess he was showing me his creative side. LOL But seriously...did he HAVE to use black?!!?

OH one more thing!!...My blog was a year old January 16th and I completely missed it! Time is flying by! Happy Birthday blog o'mine and thank you all for taking the time to read it! :o)

Another day in a hectic life!

I know it has been a while and I apologize. No excuses, just life in general. I have a few sculpts in the works and am starting on an illustration series. When I say starting, I mean just today! LOL My eldest son just finished kindergarten...eeeeek! My middle son is who I call "The Instigator" and my youngest is just blossoming into a big boy right before our eyes. All in all they are a great time but it seems like I blink and the time has gone by!

I thought that I would post a custom work I did for one of my best friends. This is her daughter Katie, who...let's face it, is one of the cutest girls on the planet! I couldn't help but draw her and I'm not too thrilled how it turned out so I think at some point I will be drawing her again but for the moment this is what I have. My friend says she is happy with it and that means a lot to me seeing as I think she would be the type to tell me if she thought it was crap! LOL

I am my worst critic but I also KNOW when I can do better.

OK...TTFN! More soon. :o)

The Tortoise and the Hare

I am so thrilled to announce that I will now be offering limited edition giclee canvas prints of my work. I can do them in glossy or matte finishes, though knowing me I will be offering other kinds soon! I just put my first one up in my shop.

Here is an example of what it looks like framed.

Here is what it looks like minus frame.

Sidewalk chalk

It's that time of year when the chalk comes out in our driveway. Here is my latest illustration. I will be off to the printers next week! :o)

My new illustration

Here is the latest finished illustration.

I am working on some sculptures and hope to post something 3D next but they take much longer to complete. I am also getting prints done. amazing how much time I don't have!! ;o)

New girl

I used to want my ears pierced so badly that I would hang things from my ears to make them like earrings. I finally bugged my mother so much she gave in. :o) Eventually, I had many holes in my ears.

Friends in high places

Here is the latest illustration. I am getting frustrated lately...mostly I find it good that my finished piece doesn't look like how I pictured in my head but this monster bummed me out a bit. He was so much cooler in my head. Oh well, what can you do but move onto the next and hope that it turns out better. I used to have the mentality of not finishing things that weren't "perfect"...yeah, I'm over that now. LOL

So here he is:



and the closeup:

New illustration

I FINALLY finished this bath illustration. I thought it would never happen. I started one and then I clumsily knocked it off the desk and when I went to pick it up it was bent in half! I had to start it over again. Then I don't know how but someone spilled some coffee on it! Yeah okay...that was me too. LOL So I had to start a third one! This is the end result and I tell you if anything happened to it again I was going to scrap the whole things as cursed!

I feel almost completely back to my old self, just the dregs of a cold. I tell you, we have been hammered with illness these past two months. I am hoping that is the end so I can truly get back to my work!

And a closeup: