Book love: an invite

One of my very good friends of many, many years is getting married and she asked me to help with the invitations. They both love books and so I thought this was a fitting little illustration.

fun with doodles

Just a few new and old doodles that I decided I liked when I looked back through my current sketchbook the other day. I am determined to be better about posting images. I have a few projects for friends that I have recently completed or are in the works. Need to try and get images of them before they are out in the world.

found octopus

These are images from my found object creation I made a while back at one of our workshops. I just realized that I never posted images of it, so here are a few. It was fun to have a lot of random materials to play with and think three dimensionally, which I admit I don't really do that often. Of course I saw the octopus and had to use it.

recent doodles

Who wants to trade?

So this last weekend we had a fabulous Saturday Short at the museum all about Artist Trading Cards... and naturally I am now totally addicted to ATCs. They are just so much fun. Tiny little canvases with lots of potential. So here are some images of some of the ones I made this weekend. Front and back. I started by making one big collage that I cut up into the 2.5 x 3.5 inch format and then I embellished them further. For the backs I went through my old sketchbooks and pulled out random things I had written down- quotes, bits from books, a few lyrics, recipes, and other notations that I have no idea what or where they came from.

Royce goes to work in my place

On this blustery November morning I was reminded of a drawing I did a while back, well I guess it's really more of a sketch, but at any rate an idea I had for a little book or zine. I was having this moment (this is where I begin to sound like a crazy cat lady) with my cat Royce when he was whining about something and I asked him if he would have rather gone to work and me stay home and sleep all day. He merely walked away. But I liked the idea of Royce going to work for me- riding the train or the bus in the morning with a cup of coffee in paw, sitting at my cubicle responding to emails and typing up contracts. And thus was born this image.



Naturally he is drawn wearing my clothes and carrying a bag like I do. Though he looks a little to serious here. Royce is not really a very serious cat. Now I just need to do a companion drawing of our other cat Orson going to teach my roommate's English classes.

Cloud of Smoke

This is a tracing I did in color pencil of this weird smoke cloud from this old wood block print that features two witches burning salamanders and snakes. Not sure if that means that this then is supposed to be some kind of cloud of evil, or what. But I do know that I have been drawn to this for quite some time and using it in my collage/drawings a lot lately. I love the line quality and the little dots. I think the print is from the 16th century originally and I have found a bunch of other great images with similar cloud-like formations and witches.