Today I did a fun piece based on those snails in the last illustration I did. I must admit I was thinking of my little sister the whole time and kind of catered it to her. She has a "pet" snail named Ferdinand whom she found in the trash and now she keeps him in a dish with my mom's colander on top. Needless to say, my mom bought a new colander.  ( Read more... )

Another illustration for the portfolio. I don't know why I've never done a mini golfing scene before since it's my family's preferred recreational activity in the summer. You'll notice there are a bunch of little snails wandering around the course as the children play.  Just a little thing to make it more fun. But now I really love the snails so I ( Read more... )

here's a  new illustration. it's probably going to be used as a promo piece, so the right version has text on it to show some layout. not that i would ever be doing layout, but it's nice to give a feel.


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    christmas was good this year but it was too bad it was on a monday (and strange too, to be around home for two days before christmas and not only one) since both mom and fred had work in the morning. we had our chinese on christmas eve and kris made a great dinner on christmas day that was holy in its evilness of goodness. i am glad i am not a ( Read more... )

it's december now so i feel like i can post christmas artwork even though i actually painted this before thanksgiving :)


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new picture. well, newly posted. i did it a couple months ago but without a scanner i couldn't put it up on artwanted- too much white space mucking things up. but  amy let me borrow her scanner for a time, so here it is. :) not much time to devote to portfolio images of late, but i'm hoping to get back to it in a week or two.

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    here're the latest watercolor illustrations i've done. it's a series. i'm trying to beef up that illustration portfolio so i can send out some submissions. i think i've gotten better since i've last sent out stuff so it's time for an update, and hopefully a positive response, that would be awesome. perhaps that's more than i can expect, but you ( Read more... )

so i drew this before i went away to maine last week, and then fred and i saw five painted turtles in one afternoon of canoeing. most jumped in the lake as we approached but one just stood his ground on a log, however hesitantly, both times we passed him- upstream then our return downstream. what a brave little guy! reminded me of all those pet ( Read more... )

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