Swamp song

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Musical creatures in the marshlands. Some sketches for an possible upcoming fabric design.

Swamp song

Passengers on the subway of life

The Halloween before last, I did a series of sketchbook paintings called "Creatures of the night." As with all of the paintings I do roughly in those journals, the intention is to create a full-sized, finished  piece. The question is which to rework and what medium to use for each. It's always a little hard to decide. I decided to do this one digitally since I've already got 2 paintings in progress. I used stipple and spatter brushes in photoshop.

Passengers part deux

Tales of Childhood

That time Mom and Dad took us to see "True Grit" at the Drive-in Theatre. I think it must have been cheaper to go to the Drive-In with 5 kids. The movie choices were somewhat odd. I seem to recall also seeing "A Patch of Blue" which featured a bit about Shelley Winters and her Gal Pal opening a call house... We took our blankets, got into our PJs and climbed all over the car. I usually leave out most of my siblings because... laziness... but this time I tried to get us all in.

That time we saw True Grit at the Drive-In

Look both ways!

Time to take another stab at a fabric challenge from Spoonflower. This time, the theme is
"Four wheels." I couldn't resist drawing some cars and traffic for this one. And some black cats, too. You can see all the designs and vote for your favorites here!

Look both ways

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Dema & Kiki love sushi, finished painting

The last in the series. Finished on Saturday, it's packed up and ready to go!

Dema & Kiki love sushi

Dema & Kiki love sushi!

Here's the sketchbook painting of the 3rd and final custom pet painting for my Etsy client, Jess.

Dema & Kiki love sushi

Cleaning house

Here are a couple of my little paintings before I sent them off to their new home in Germany. Hate to see 'em go, but paintings are piling up around here. I'll be selecting some more originals to post to Etsy over the next couple of weeks.

Tiny paintings

Hiya!

Here's another fabric design for spoonflower. This is for the challenge "Animals by land." I've been thinking about elephants lately, an animal I don't often draw. They are amazing, though, and their plight in this world is dear to my heart.

"Hiya" elephant & monkey fabric on spoonflower

Another pet portrait completed

Just finished the second in a series of portraits of Dema & Kiki. The painting is on its way to a loving pet mom in Olympia, WA. Thanks for the fun project, Jess! For this series she asked for three scenarios, each with its own fantasy "creature". You can get one made of your favorite fur babies in my etsy shop.

Dema & Kiki at the lagoon