goodbye Ponyo

This was my fish Ponyo who died a couple days ago. She grew to be 7 inches long, was really pretty, and often mistook pebbles for food and would spit them out like bullets. Goodbye Ponyo!

new prints

There are some new prints available on my Etsy store, including a large-format borderless print of my Howl postcard. Check it out!

pirates!

Alright! This is my favorite Tarzan piece so far! Check out the Picture Book Report blog for more details on the story in this scene. You can click on the image to enlarge.

Also. A couple potential Janes, plus an idea for her outfit. I'm leaning towards the Jane on the right, the younger one. She's 19 afterall, and I think the left one looks too 1920's....even though that is the time period for the book. But still. A little too dated.

sickie

So this was me for the past couple of days. When migraines plague me you can pretty much count me out of life for the duration. It was bad news. But now that I'm recovering, bear with me, because Tarzan 5 is just so so so close!

Oh yeah and my hair is normally pin straight, but this is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of what it looked like!

sometimes I make other things too!

pom poms!

Jimmy's folks gave me this great little sewing machine for my birthday last year and I had some fun making a flag bunting for my room! It's actually really long. I think it may be a pretty shoddy sewing job really, but it's hard to mess up flags and string, right?

I also rescued this big chalkboard (really hard to see in our tiny hallway, but i will post better pictures later...someday when we move) from the coffee shop where I pretend to be a functioning member of society and painted it up in mint green. It was meant to help us schedule ourselves but we just doodle stupid things on it now.

some sci fi show

death dance

The final version of my belated Tarzan piece went up on the Picture Book Report blog today, and you can see the entire piece there! I'm pretty happy with it, although this is the first time I've limited my colors quite this much, so...hope it works!

tarzan up in that tree

This is my latest Tarzan piece that went up on the Picture Book Report blog. I got a little tired of working on the last one and so I just went on to the next! Sometimes that's necessary I think. I really like how this came out. So much so, I think I'm going to go back into the earlier Tarzan piece and change up the background a bit. maybe.

jungle

I'm sorta dreadfully behind on my last Tarzan update for the Picture Book Report, so I thought well maybe I can prove that it's getting there! This is the finished jungle background, which turned out to involve a really a new process and color palette for me, and I'm pretty into it! Tarzan, who's 12 there (hopefully looks that way), is going to be inhabiting that space real real soon, but I liked him so much that I wanted to give him a little spotlight.

Howl postcard

I just finished this postcard for Howl, a great independent pet store here in Hampden, and I'm really happy with how it came out. Robin McDonald, the owner, gave me complete freedom with it and it was such a fun job. Who wouldn't love drawing a mess of dogs and cats?
I absolutely love airedales, by the way!