Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Beware, Children;.!


Here's a design for the cover of the Quaker book I am re-designing and illustrating.  I think this looks fairly B.-A.  Wonder if Richard will like it?

Inspiration: 19th Century flowery, art deco-y book covers, of course!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

It's a Jungle Out There

Gearing up for another conference, this time in the beautiful mountains of northeastern PA!  Thing have been busy, but rest assured I've been hard at work on several projects.  The biggest one to date I just finished a few weeks ago, and I believe I mentioned on this blog before:  3 acrylic panels of a jungle scene for a baby's room.  They turned out great!  Only thing is, I think I'll never use MDF again.  It's nice when you don't want to spend $100 on canvases (and are terrible at making them yourself) but it's so hard to paint on!  The surface just hated my brush and I ended up having to go over every single part of the paintings multiple times before it would look decent.  But enough complaining.  Here they are: