making a splash!

It can pour, drip, drizzle, splash, mist, downpour, shower, be intermittent, steady, occasional --- the descriptive list goes on.  Being a lifelong Oregonian I can really enjoy the rain - not that I always do, but I can. So here's to fall, heading into winter, and looking forward to good times!

Alander's Detective Day

Open publication - Free publishing - More picture book

My original pencil drawings colored in photoshop, this is a preview of a (yet unpublished) book by Bethany Dalton.

It's uploaded to a site called ISSUU.   A great way to view publications and I'll be using it more.

I took photographs of "Alander" and "Nonya" to use as reference when I sketched out the drawings. It was really fun to give life to these personalities with the multiple layers of colorings and brushes with endless possiblitities of manipulation in Photoshop.

Start packing!

This is a pencil drawing I did this summer while we were camping at the beach. Now it's colored in photoshop and  given a voice with the sentiment of Catherine Douzel.

Sometimes a cup of tea is shared
with a friend,
a book,
music,
an unfocused gaze out your window.

-but each cup is a journey of sorts
and that's a wonderful thing.

This print is now available in my etsy shop, you might want to check it out - but you'll definitely want to make time for regular journeys in this fall season.

Happy brewing!

coffee town

Coffee Town, where there is always something brewing. The lights are on in everyone's house as they find themselves adding to the general excitement of the village.

This pen and ink drawing was drawn in a yurt at the beach, scanned and colored in photoshop, and imagined long before anything actually took place on a piece of paper.

Soon to be available at my etsy shop.

I'm a little teapot

Original watercolor enhanced in photoshop. A new use for a cracked teapot, new life coming on strong! I love the old illustrations where the registration is just a bit off, I tried to convey that feel here.