The Way to a Girl’s Heart
… is through eggs and stuff. At least, that’s what I told my then-boyfriend, now-husband, a million years ago when I showed him this self portrait. In this flattering picture, I am eating the eggs
Carnations
A little still life with hands for this week’s Doodle Addicts prompt. The assignment was a drawing of our hands, open color scheme and media, so I did my usual favorite: mixed! It’s kind of
The Beary Baker
The Beary Baker is a cafe in my imagination that only serves baked goods made with berries and is only staffed by bears. I have no clue how this drawing came to be, except that
Mother Two Skins
Today I bring this graphite drawing of an old fox-woman from the depths of an old sketchbook. She’s a feisty, tricky thing, I imagine, who knits sometimes with the Fates. Fall has definitely arrived in
Lunar Houses
This week’s Doodle Addicts prompt, and a side project that I’m working on, had me inspired to do this illustration of the weird, wonderful medieval talismanic images associated with the twenty eight Mansions of the
Sweater Weather
Something really old from the sketchbook today! I sneakily updated this as my homepage image a few days ago, but here is the full version. It’s Micron pens of various thicknesses, some kind of alcohol-ink
Cat Feelings
l finally finished my proofs of the six images in my illustration series, so I’m feeling as sassy as these cats. The black and white one is sort of a portrait of my cat Beans,
A Collage & a Comic
It seems like forever since I posted something from the sketchbook! Today, I have something sweet and silly in the form of a little collage about sugar cereal. The prompt on Doodle Addicts this week
Genius of the Verge
Today, I’m going to show another peek on one of the nearly-finished drawings from my upcoming print collection. It comes with a little etymology lesson. We borrow the word “genius” from the ancient Romans, who
Tweak and Proof
I’m going to keep today’s post short, because I really, really want to show some of the other things that I’m working on later in the week. I am in the process of adjusting colors,