Little Girl Portrait

This is a portrait commission I just finished. I saw a more recent picture of her. She's all grown up and she's gorgeous.

11 x 14

Illustration Friday "Entangled"

I ended up with three versions of "Entangled" this week.

The first one I almost trashed but it ended up being a learning experience. I added the blue background and what I thought was a permanent black pen for the yarn turned out to not be and I went back in with white goache and I was satisfied with the result.

Then I redid it and liked my second version better.

And then I mistakenly scanned it in black and white and I think this one is my favorite maybe because I don't usually work monochromatically. A fun afternoon of painting.

Illustration Friday 11/6 "Blur"

This is so late but I'm posting it anyway. I got an unexpected day off today due to a sick child but he's been amazingly non-whiny or needy and seems to be recovering quietly so I get to paint!

Interestingly on Saturday, I took a workshop on a technique that the artist calls "Soft Focus"and everything we painted was blurry.

Genno and the Angel in the Woods Published

I've been told that working on a book is like having a baby. Well, this baby has taken 2+ years for me and 10+ years for the author. What's different about birthing a book is you never know your due date so we've just waited and wondered....until yesterday... I got a call from Angie Williams and our baby was born. ;)

If you would like to order a copy from me, let me know, or you can go directly to Publish America and buy your copy there.

Ginger

Ginger is a fellow artist and unbeknownst to her, I took her picture while we were at our annual art show reception in early October. Along with the casual yet sophisticated pose, I love that I could include the paintings and ribbons in the background to help tell the story of her career as an artist and the many awards she has won.

Mummy

I've got to get all my Halloween illustrations out of my system in the next 2 days. I actually drew this one for Illustration Friday back when the theme was "wrapped" but never got around to posting. It's a friendly mummy. ;)

Illustration Friday "Fast"

Couldn't resist combining the theme with Halloween.

Have you ever witnessed this?

watercolor 7 x 5

Stretching

I'm practicing drawing "out of my head" - to me, an important skill that I would like to possess. ;)

Kids in the Pumpkin Patch 5 x 7