Woof

I love traveling and vending at art shows.  I love meeting people, playing with kids, petting dogs, answering questions and watching faces light up when they walk in my booth.  At these shows I lay out tons of prints and illustrations.  Big ones, small ones, animals here, animals there.  Collectively, I have prints with maybe... 100 different animals?  At least.  But all anyone ever wants to know is, 

"Do you have this dog?"

Well, here you go, dog owners.  New illustrations for you and your favorite pooches.  I'm starting a new series with all your favorite dog breeds.  Enjoy these first three!

Basset Hound

Boston Terrier

Bichon Frise

Look People, People!

Bet you thought you'd never see the day I did something that didn't have four legs and a tail, eh?  EH? 

Happy/Upset, Dry/Wet

Opposites Book - Completed Spread

Here we go!  The VERY FIRST SPREAD of my almost-finished(!) children's book, The Little Book of Big Opposites.  Remember all those times I said, "Words to be added later?"  Well, words added.  More to come.... stay tuned.



Thoughts are welcome!

Peek-a-Book Progress

Overall view of my book so far. One more spread to go, then cover pages, words, and touch-ups!

Fast/Slow Process Post

Snowed in..... 20 minutes away from my scanner. Mother nature apologizes for my mobile uploads.

Book Updates!

It's gettin' down to the nitty gritty!  

I'm beginning to finalize the book.  And the perfectionism is beginning to show it's ugly teeth.  Finalizing comes with it's pros (such as adding words, designing cover pages, and finally gaining a sense of accomplishment) and it's cons (like fixing, touching up, and being a Miss Perfection Patty and entirely redoing the pages that I see fit for trash n' dashing.  Hello Extreme Makeover).  The following three images are redos of pages 1, 2 and 17.  Please feel free to leave feedback!

 

Big/Small

Short/Tall

Silent/Sound

Happy/Upset Process

I know I promised no more mobile uploads, but I realized I haven't blogged a process post in a while. So here's a few from the creation of Page 3(under the direction of my favorite feline supervisor, of course).

New Book Pages!

Words will be added to pages later.....

Day/Night

Black/White

Up/Down

Children's Book Catch Up!

I did it.... I CAVED. 
I bought myself a scanner! It is an Epson and she is a BEAUT.  Finally(!) no more mobile uploads.  So, below are a few images you may recognize from the children's book I'm working on, The Little Book of Big Opposites, but hopefully you can appreciate them now. 

(If you're looking at these for the first time, I'll be adding the words later.  For now, refer to the labels.  Please and thank you!)

Page 1: Big/Small

Page 3:  Happy/Upset

 Page 4: Dry/Wet

Page 8: Thick/Thin

Pages 9 & 10: Out/In

Pages 13 & 14: Above/Below

Page 15: Old/New

Page 16: Many/Few

Pages 19 & 20: Borrow/Lend

Happy Pumpkins

Happy (day after) Halloween!

Pages 19 & 20: Borrow/Lend

Mittens found a new comfy spot this week. Better than last weeks paws-in-the-palette. 

Pages 13 & 14: Above/Below

Elephant Love

I was going to save this one for something special like Valentine's Day, but I know there's a special someone looking for this little elephant.  If you're out there, Superman's Woman, this one's for you!

Click to Buy Elephant Love!

Pages 9 & 10: Out/In

Continuing to work on ze book....
(as usual, words will be added later)

.....and I love that my cat can't help but get her paws in my work.