The Final "Lily"

About a week ago I posted a sketch for a new illustration. I finally sat down today and got it done. I'm fairly pleased with this one. Now all I have to do is continue down the "flower road".

New Direction

After much deliberation, I've decided to focus my artistic energies on flowers for right now. lotsa flowers. I'm posting a sketch (work in progress that feels promising). I really needed to pick a direction and run with it, because I was getting sick and tired of all of these hodge podge illustration ideas. Sorry Illustration Friday. And "Oh My Gosh" I actually am finally learning my lessons from fibers class.

I'm excited :)

Illustration Friday "Seed"

This week's Illustration Friday is a topic near and dear to my heart...seeds. Wonderful, beautiful, lovely plants grow from seeds. Seeds are also like baby ideas that haven't bloomed to their full potential. My illustration is about the seed of an idea coming to fruition :) Also, it's springtime, and everything is growing. Ah, my favorite time of the year!

New Stuff

Well,

I've been trying to get some P&P stuff together for SCAD, and despite the fact that I am not entirely happy with the style of my illustrations for the book idea, I'm getting ready to put together a booklet. I just finished the cover, now all I need to do is gather all my misc. illustrations that are floating around on my hard drive.

"I Love it When" featured in Savannah Newspaper

Yay, an article about Teatrio, the International Children's book competition which I was accepted into, was published in the Savannah Morning News. How exciting!

Here's the link: http://savannahnow.com/node/475786

Abstract Spring Flowers

Here's a little bit of the work my students have been doing in my afternoon homeschool art class!

NEW ART

I went crazy today!

Almost There

If I could write good poetry, then maybe my life would be complete.

Thoughts

So, I haven't posted in a while, and I suppose that's because I've been so crazy busy. No new art, at least none that I wish to share. Feeling rather bogged down by work and the rest of my life, which leaves little room to be creative. I am trying, though. Hoping that a trip to a warmer climate will lift my spirits.

Dreaming of Summer

It's really dang cold here!

Le Petite Mamselle

a French doodle.

IF Soar

Well, I suppose I'm still thinking of Christmas. And angels soar :)

Hello Ginta

So, it's been a long time since I've done anything with Ginta :) Hope you enjoy.

Imagination

On a fortune cookie:

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Pretty good, eh?

IF Grow

This was actually part of my Thesis work and is titled "A Ways to Grow".

I gots a new hair cut!

This one's for Amanda!

My Moon My Man

This is a work in progress. I've been listening to Feist lately, and I love her song, "My Moon My Man". A good song.

Viewbook Portfolio

More Charley Harper Pics

If I become half the artist he was, I'll be happy...

Daisy Chain

Did you know that daisies have long been associated with innocence and unaffected simplicity? After doing mounds of research pertaining to floral symbolism for my thesis, I suppose I'll be spending the rest of my life picking at hidden meanings in paintings. Of course, Victorians would have read such paintings as open books (Victorian ladies dedicated much time to florigraphy, the study of floral symbolism). But now we must content ourselves to imagining what it would be like to speak a language of flowers.

Here are some flower quotes that "grew" on me ;)

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here; The daisy, fresh from nature's sleep, Tells of His hand in lines as clear. ~John Mason Good