Thank You, Catherine Coulson, For Giving Us Such A Beloved Character. You Will Be Missed.

a lil bob-tailed familiar 🐱 #wip

Wow! You're work is so good! I really like it. Ho do you get such great digital images of your stuff? So good!

Thanks so much! I scan things at really high res and then adjust the levels in photoshop to match the originals as best I can. It can be a obsessive task!

Hello little guy.  Amidst the stress of filing taxes, a cruelly indecisive springtime, and car insurance payments, this little robin was born.  Sometimes you just need to make something pretty and meaningless.

It's been so long!  I've missed you all!  Sorry about the lack of posts.  Lately inspiration has been a little bit scarce, but I thought I'd jump back on the horse with a new kaiju painting!  This is Agasukeron, one of my favorites.  These colors aren't exactly true to form as far as the figure goes, but I do love some pink every now and then.

Here's a tip: don't paint with gouache on top of reg'lar old acrylic without some sort of matte medium between the two!  For some reason my brain turned off and I thought I'd save some gouache by painting the background here in acrylic.  Mistake!  Ended up using more gouache to keep my colors solid and even.  So don't be a noob like me: all gouache, combo gouache and acrylic gouache, or make that acrylic a decent surface to paint on.

Embroidery in progress! It's been taking me forever to finish this bat boy because I'm just making a few stitches in between client projects, but I'm very excited to do more (when time allows!)...I've got...plans.....👿

dffect asked:

"So what is the news besides the blues?"

It's cold in my house. But I'm enjoying a new scarf. But I ate a dissatisfying brownie. Trade-offs.

Today is Kali Ciesemier's birthday. I made this ridiculous thing expressly for her. She's wonderful (and one of my best friends, y'all) so wish her a happy birthday!

Merry Christmas, little lightbulb fairy children.

it's happening #TalesFromAeaea

Some months ago I illustrated and hand-lettered materials at Spur Design for the Maryland Humanities Council's One Maryland One Book program. Every year a book is chosen for state-wide reading and discussion, with materials distributed to schools and libraries, and the 2012 selection was The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. It's a story based on true events about a musician during the seige of Sarajevo who honors the memory of his friends and neighbors by playing his cello everyday in the square where they were killed, a day for each victim.

It was a thrill to work on this at Spur, and lovely to work with the hardworking people at MD Humanities. You can find out more about the One Maryland One Book program here. Art & design direction by David Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth.