Brenna Vaughan

This little gal just came out of the paper last night after I worked on the book for a while.  It’s probably her first night out on her broomstick alone.

I would love to create this costume!

October 23rd, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

It has been a while since I have been on the ol’ blog!  I will try and stop by to say “hi” more often…life has been SO busy lately it has turned my world upside down.  I used to say I was busy, but that was before I was BUSY!

SSo, this week I decided to participate in IF.  Immediately when I heard the subject was “scattered” I got the image of a little girl creating and her supplies and drawings scattered all over the floor.  I was/am totally this girl, and I see this every day in my daughter’s room.

Isn’t she something? I just adore her drawings with all my heart.  My son also loves to draw, but video games have a pretty strong hold on him so he rarely does it(sigh).

I did this drawing when I was in first grade.  It was part of a book about a big sister mouse.  I remember sitting at my desk(or on the floor) writing stories and drawing for hours and I was perfectly content every moment of it.  I think sometimes I need to channel THAT girl again- and remember that doing what I love should be simple and fun!

October 21st, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)

 I have been SUPER busy.  The last few weeks I have finished some new pieces, started teaching again and have worked every evening on my first picture book(yay!).  With so much going on I have neglected in several posts I have had planned.   They are on the back burner for now, but I still wanted to drop by and say “hello!”. 

September 1st, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)

She is sweet and caring.  She adores knitting, loves animals and wants to save the world one recyclable piece at a time.  She is an always there friend and easy to talk to.  I love her because she is just like my sister, Danielle.  Oh how I love my sister!  I envision Dani living in Portland with her hippie parents, volunteering at various places and frequenting the book store(going through her list of classic literature).

I wish I could stay and chat, but I have to run!  I start teaching in just a couple of days, not to mention loads of other things to do. To the school I go :)

August 16th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I just wanted to share a late night project.  My work schedule has been as follows: 9:00-11:00 sketching for new projects, 11:00-12:00 scanning, painting any pieces I’m working on,  12:00-1:00 if I’m up at this point I’m usually working on a personal project.  Lately, that has been my lovely ladies from a previous post : )  I go back to teaching tomorrow so I am expecting big changes in my late night schedule! 

August 10th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

August 4th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Meet Kimmy, Dani, Celia, Gladys and Mo. Characters that I have been creating to challenge myself a bit.  I have been thinking about what makes a character portray a personality. I created in my mind a scenario where teens or tweens would have to meet and come from different places…CAMP!  They would all wear what would be a camp tee shirt so they could only show limited personality in the way they dressed(no dresses, skirts or uncomfortable shoes at camp). So I wrote down some names and characteristics that I wanted each name to be associated with. Something like this:

Kimmy: tom boy, sporty, friendly and competitive, freckles

Dani: studious, shy, loves cats, knits, wants to save the planet

Celia: tech savvy, photographer, from the city, laid back

Gladys: prissy, fashionable, wears makeup, does ballet

Mo: an artist, hip, wealthy parents, loves sushi, short

They have no actual story but they have come to life in my head. Having conversations about what gross things lurk under the mattress in their cabin, if there are any cute boys, why the camp director is so wierd and how exactly to sneak out at night so they can explore the off limit section of Camp Piney.

July 22nd, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (29)

Hello all!  I hope you are out having fun today and staying cool.  There are so many things on my summer to do list I am just praying time stands still for me these days…no luck yet.  Below are a couple of things I thought I’d share.

Like I said a few weeks ago, I plan on adding some women/tweens to my portfolio.  So, I have been testing “looks” for my ladies.  The top I am really not in love with.   This bottom one needs a little tweeking. Definitely some images on the stickers of her suitcase, maybe a little more detail in the skirt pattern, a background! I digitally collaged her a bit with watercolor, line art and some photoshop coloring. Oh, I really dislike the look of the dog in the top one as well…I would change it to a sheep dog for sure.

I am gathering some muses for my lady-drawing and gathered some of my absolute favorite ladies to take inspiration from. Take a peek, do you know all of them?

July 19th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

This weeks Illustration Friday topic: Stay.  For some reason when I heard the word “stay”, first I thought of a dog command then of a couple.  In this case a young couple. Remember those days?  When it was agonizing to say good bye and you never wanted to be the first to hang up the phone: “you hang up”, “no, you hang up” on and on.  Now I can hardly stand to stay on the phone for longer than 30 seconds!

July 14th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)