Tomie dePaola Contest Entry 2014

"Foxy Fox"

Watercolor, pen, and ink on watercolor paper

June 2014

Here is my entry for the Tomie dePaola contest for 2014! Check out all of the entries here. 

Meditation - A Primer

I am currently enrolled in Make Art That Sells Bootcamp with Lilla Rogers and this is one of the assignments we had to work on. It goes with an article about how to meditate. I like doing these sequential pieces. This is the second one I have done recently - see my post about Why I Love Paper. This is watercolor and ink on Arches watercolor paper. Namaste. 

Why Do I LOVE Paper?

I've always expressed myself better through pictures than in words and so the illustration above shows just a few reasons why I LOVE PAPER! Of course it was painted on PAPER!!! I hope you like it. And please check out the great blogs of the artists, designers, writers, and other paper-lovers listed below. We are all participating in the great paperlove blog hop and today if you follow the links below you'll find so many great, fun, amazing, wonderful, fabulous musings about paper! Enjoy!!!!!

Majo Bautista / Tona Bell / Louise Best / Cathy Bluteau / Jennifer Bomgardner / Giova Brusa / Lindsay Buck / Beka Buckley / Joanna Caskie / Jonathan Chapman (Mr Yen) / Halle Cisco / Sarah Clare / Cathryn Clarge / Dawn Clarkson / Rhiannon Connelly / Jenny D'Fuego / Molly Dhiman / Ian Dudley / Ayisatu Emore / Akmal Farid / Monika Forsberg / Claire Fritz-Domeney / Louise Gale / Chrissy Gaskell / Julie Hamilton / Emma Hawman / Rachel Hazell / Holly Helgeson / Claudine Hellmuth / Kim Henkel / Sarah Hoffman / Joanne Hus / Paula Joerling / Beth Kempton / Julie Kirk / Eos Koch / Katie LaClair / Kristy Lankford / Michelle Manolov / Doreen Marts / Rosie Martinez-Dekker / Tori Mears / Maria Mederios / Lise Meijer / Debbie Miller / MaryJane Mitchell / Suzy Naidoo / Grace Noel / Hannah Nunn / Camilla Olsson / Jo Packham / Rachelle Panagarry / Monette Pangan / Melanie Paul / Nicole Piar / Jen Pitta / Liz Plummer / Julie Reed / Michelle Reynolds / Lisa Rivas / Angee Robertson / Natalie Ryan / Aisling Ryan / Elisabet Sapena / Kyrrha Sevco / Jamie Sprague / Elizabeth Steele / Terri Stephens / Juniper Stokes / Mary Tanana / Maike Thoma / Linda Tieu / Gabrielle Treanor / Tammy Tutterow / Deborah Velasquez / Jordan Vinograd Kim / Cat Whipple / Brooke Witt / Katie Wood / Amelia Woodbridge

The PaperLove Blog Hop is a celebration of all things paper! Follow the links to discover more bloggers who love paper and use it to inspire and delight. And if you want to explore a whole world of paper, and stretch your paper passion further with a host of creative projects, why not join the innovative new online course PaperLove (starts March 31). Led by book artist Rachel Hazell, PaperLove is a five week creative adventure for paper lovers. Find out more here. 

Art Show in Leesburg, VA

Check out my art on exhibit at Rust Library in Leesburg, VA! It will be on display the entire month of January and then will move to the Cascades Library in Sterling, VA later this winter. 

http://library.loudoun.gov/

Featured above from left to right are: "Don't be Shy," "Keep it Clean," "Chicken Little," "Cow Jumped Over the Moon... with Friends," "Cut, Trim, Sew," and "Spots vs. Stripes." All are watercolor and ink on paper. All framing and matting done by yours truly with the exception of "Spots vs. Stripes."

Featured above from left to right are: "Cupcake Yield," "Fairy Tales," "Creative Space," "View from Montmartre," and "Waiting room." All are watercolor on paper. Framing and matting of "Fairy Tales" done by yours truly.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Surface Design: Flowers

These are new doodles I created for fabric designs ...

watercolor on paper and some digital

July/ August 2013

Make Art that Sells: Assignment 1 - Bolt Fabric

Veggies 

Bolt fabric design with two coordinating fabrics

watercolor, pen and ink, and digital 

June 8, 2013

As mentioned a few weeks ago, I am taking an AMAZING online class with Lilla Rogers (artist, art agent, teacher extraordinaire) called Make Art That Sells. This is the first assignment from the class. I never thought I could make something like this! I have already learned so much in this course. This is a combination of watercolor, pen and ink, and Photoshop. I kind of dislike using the computer, but I am really happy with the end result. I guess I should chill and stop complaining about the computer. I hope you like it!

Wedding Dress Fashion Sketch

Wedding Dress Fashion Drawing

Wedding Date: June 23

For Katie Busbey

watercolor, ink, pencil on archival paper

November, 2012

IF: Bounce

IF: Bounce

August 2012

watercolor and gouache on paper

Something in honor of the Olympics that also works for Illustration Friday. 

IF: Lonely

IF: Lonely

watercolor on paper

July 2012

Faded

The three hooligans hoped that they had faded into the wallpaper, so that the girl would not see them.  

Illustration Friday: Faded

watercolor on paper

May 28, 2012

Recipe Yield

Mary Lou had no idea her grandmother's recipe would yield so many cupcakes.

"Illustration Friday: Recipe Yield"

March 2012

watercolor on paper