Illustration Friday - Cultivate

Here is my illustration for Cultivate, inspired by my daughter and similar to the illustration in my sidebar. I'm kind of tickled with this character and have plans to use her in future illustrations. And I had to include our kitty, Juliet, trying to steal some affection though she is black in real life and I haven't quite figured out how to paint her as an illustration using black...yet. I'm thinking I may need to darken the values in this but here it is for now.

News Article about my illustration

Tess Sykes is my new best friend! She is a local writer who I met when she did a couple of stories  last year- one about a local art club that I belong to, Bellevue Artists Association and then another highlighting the watercolor class that I began teaching one year ago. She recently started a blog to review children's books and asked to interview me. I am really impressed with her writing. :) Everyone needs to know a person like Tess to cheer them on. Thank you, Tess!

http://kidsbookcritic.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/illustrated-by-kathy-jurek/

IF "Stir"

Where does the time go? I haven't posted for about 3 weeks but not because I haven't been painting. I've actually attempted the last two Illustration Fridays even reworking one a couple of time but I didn't think they were very successful so fast forward and we'll try "Stir". This reminded me of my husband's hunting dog who was a German Short Haired Pointer and a superior bird dog. He was really pretty, too, and thought he was a lap dog. I wish I had more pictures of him.

Illustration Friday "Layer"

I'm always late for IF. It seems to take a day or two for an idea to percolate in my head. Then sometimes it take another day or two to finish it. I really enjoyed this one. This sort of goes with the "itching for Spring" theme of my previous post. I'm sure most people are feeling this way. I understand Mother Nature is sending us more cold weather tonight though. :(

It felt like Spring today....

 until about 4 o'clock. Then a fog monster rolled in. Goodbye sunshine.....

Illustration Friday - Sweater

The theme for Illustration Friday this week was Sweater. Lots of fun you can have with that one. I originally thought it would be fun to have a really poofy sweater with a little bit of dog showing. Maybe I'll still play with that but this is I ended up with. :) 

and..........Happy Valentine's Day!

Hayley & Juliet

This is a picture of my daughter and one of our cats, Juliet, who loves to be cuddled and held. I think she'd be really happy in a sling baby carrier. :)

13 x 16