preparing a meal for two of his toughest critics is definitely nerve wrecking.
One of my most favorite works so far this year. This was a lot of fun to work on. Preping up for the upcoming conference which is in two weeks has me working like that chef right now. Hopefully I’ll be finished on time and have a lot more work in my arsenal. Updates soon.
in the meantime HAPPY FRIDAY!
The highlight of their trip to the city wasn’t the city. It was Balloons!
A work in progress. I feel like its not quite there yet, but I can’t figure out what’s missing. Somethings off, somethings missing, but what? Any suggestions?
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
and hope everyone has a very safe and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
See you all in 2012.
It’s going to be a great year.
It’s fun to separate a gang of pigeons and watch them fly off to different corners..
as long as they don’t poop on you on their way up.
Busy month and year ahead. Doing a series of these two kids and their adventure around New York City. Where will they end up next? Your guess is as good as mine. Preparing for next years SCBWI Winter Conference (which is less than 2 months away). Working on new art to show my agent, new promo pieces, new art for the portfolio showcase…busy busy busy. I’ve a slightly different style than what I started out with this year and a slightly different method of (digital) painting. I like it! Hope everyone does too.
I haven’t done a time-lapse video in a while…maybe I should for the next one. In the meantime, I’ve been posting work in progress captures on the Facebook page!
HAPPY FRIDAY!
The Queen of Toy Land and her purple court jester!
He doesn’t look like he likes this game much.
A private commission for a good friend. A gift for his wife and daughter for Calista’s 1st birthday! (so sweet.) This kid unbelievably cute. Apparently this is exactly the kind of love that Calista and Chloe have for one another. It’s interesting how their cat doesn’t claw her, if I tried to do that to my cat I’d hear grumbling followed by an intense need to squirm and claw her way out of my grip…I tried this last week..
The final image was 15×16″ so it needed to be custom framed. Had a hard time trying to find a custom frame shop that would be able to finish the frame on time for her 1st birthday. But luckily we found someone who got it done 3 days after the Thanksgiving weekend. They did a lovely job at that. I hope they love it as much as I do.
Tabitha got a little jealous during the unwrapping.
As always, Thanksgiving, was a time for being grateful for all the wonderful blessings that’ve been presented to us this year and all the years before…to get together with family and friends…followed by a slight feeling of regret that I may have ate a little too much. But nonetheless it was a great weekend. Our turkey?
A success!
Rave reviews about our very first turkey! So awesome. Thank goodness for the internet and showing us the perfect way to brine this massive bird. It was deeeelicious, we’ll definitely be sticking with this recipe for the future. Even my niece Chloe grabbed a second helping and her mom said she didn’t like turkey. As of yesterday, we are officially out of leftovers. YAY!
Hope everyone had a great start to the holidays as well!
Earl and his pet “dog” Lurkey, Wish you a Happy Turkey Day!
I sure do have a lot to be thankful for this year! But its all gone by so fast. I wish I could hold on to it just a little bit longer…
Oh well.
Thanksgiving lunch at my house. This year I’m going to go at it in cooking my very first turkey. Let’s hope it’s edible! Will post the outcome…
maybe!
Gooble Gobble!! Happy Thanksgiving folks!
One day, this will influence her to fly airplanes….or maybe it’ll just influence her to draw her playing airplanes.
When I was a kid and my dad worked overseas, he would fly back on holidays and vacations always with a bag full of gifts in his hands. One time he came back with a toy airplane that would levitate itself a few inches off the ground. When my dad left I sat on it hard thinking it would fly me to my dad….
…it levitated no more.
Summers been so good to me. Been really busy. Caught up with old friends. Working on new illustrations (although not enough). Seen a lot of the sea side this summer. So grateful for that. Wish I brought my sketch book in all occasions but it’s nice to just get away from the pencil, tablet, and paper every once in awhile. Will update soon! With visuals. Until then hope everyone is having a great summer. Looking forward to fall!
To think it all began with small pieces of chalk and a blank canvas. Actually, it all started with mom’s lipstick, a teddy bear, the carpet, the sofa…..you get the point.
Still in the process of tightening this one but I haven’t posted in a while and thought it was really due time.
Be Back Soon!
HAPPY MONDAY!
