new book coming

Until these October posts, it had been quite a while since I shared some art. This is good news! It is because I was very busy all year in my spare time, illustrating a new book. It will be revealed finally very soon! :)

T-shirt design: owl

I got to play with my mom's embroidery machine! Before I chose the fabrics (all scraps--woohoo for thriftiness/recycling), I designed it first, of course, with pencil...

...then used the applique feature on the embroidery machine, onto the smaller fabric. I then hand-stitched that onto the shirt and hand-sewed the buttons (flowers have buttons as well as the eyes).

[she's saying, "wise up!"] ;)

Fall pic

Just for fun today, because I can't resist a nice pack of decorative papers. I've got it up with my fall decor! favorite season.

T-Shirt design: moose

Made my own souvenir from our trip to New Hampshire :) I chose the fabrics, cut the shapes, and hand-sewed them on. Put the second flower onto a hair-clip to match.

New Christmas Card illustration!!

I am so excited to reveal my new illustration for this year's Christmas card.

See detail below: (I draw the drawing with pencil, then color it digitally, mixed media) It includes the Scripture: "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 Have a merry Christmas!!

New Print

I have created another frame-able piece of Scripture art. This is called Resurrection and it goes with 2Corinthians 5:17. Below is a detail.

(This was created in the style of a piece I made back in 2002 called Anchor, with Hebrews 6:19. I have almost sold 100 prints of it so far.)

Anchor detail:

Bed Canopy

Giving my now-4-year-old's room a makeover into a Tinkerbell room, I made one of those bed canopy things. From top to bottom, the things sewn onto a wire coat hanger circle are: an old tutu, a dress-up skirt, an old sheer dance costume, and longer pieces of new tulle fabric. I came across Tinkerbell ribbon, and I already had the embellishing flowers.

retro design

As an illustrator/designer, I was delighted to notice this cereal box's retro style! Anyone else see this yet? I wonder if this is exactly what the box used to look like... (btw can anyone guess the cap'n's first name? (i found out what it is on the back of this box) hahaha)

Art Camp for Kids 4 (tissue collage)

The last project we did in my week of teaching art camp was based on Eric Carle's work: Carle works with tissue paper; he paints strokes on it. So to begin, we played with tissue paper, creating third colors by overlapping two. (below) Then the kids planned to make either of my examples--a caterpillar or a ladybug. (or bee, butterfly or firefly) After drawing their bug with pencil, they painted what colors they needed, painted onto tissue paper: The next day they cut the pieces from the painted tissue papers that were now dry. And they assembled their bugs!: In this particular Carle book (below), he has a lot of lettering as well, which is what inspired the letter cut-outs and stories that we added. One of the best parts of the week is the reception for parents on the last day! Here is one picture of all their projects displayed! Thank you so much for visiting! Continued in next posts!

Art Camp for Kids 3 (fingerprint art)

Another project in my week of teaching Art Camp was based on this book above by Ed Emberley. We made our fingerprints and thumbprints into drawings, using stamp pad ink. After practicing dragons and lions, (below), we then made people with our fingerprints, (like this from the book)-- I had the kids make the fingerprint people be themselves, doing a hobby they like. Then they pasted their fingerprint self onto a chosen setting photo:

continued in next post!