These warm colors of pinks and orange evoke the heartfelt emotion of affection. Read more »

Week four and the finished product of the graphite U.P. silhouette with trees! Slow week with half a charcoal birch tree, a watercolor valentines day card, burnt graphite drawing and the paper mâché sculpture in the works. Read more »

The Redstarts (Warblers) on a Hemlock branch was done to THE GOAT RODEO SESSIONS, Yo Yo Ma…a goat rodeo is when “multiple conflicting elements all must be choreographed and aligned to avoid a chaotic result.” For this context, those elements are the branch design, needle placement, position of the birds, […] Read more »

30 Days and 30 unique sock puppets, actually more because I counted the aliens as 1. From day 31 on, I will be group the puppets and writing magnetic poetry to build the plot line of the story of the missing socks. The biggest obstacle is the limitation of the […] Read more »

I am going through all the plastic Cuttlebug folders that I might use with jewelry. I can see using bits or all of particular designs. Read more »

This piece has been the most fun headache I have ever created. First I applied all the pen & ink work as I would my normal works I create. Now I am applying all the simple watercolor washes throughout the piece in preparation of the Scratch Art portion of this […] Read more »

It’s finally snowing in Illinois! This makes me think wistfully of the northern woods and bogs. One of the mammals on my list to illustrate for the game Evolve! happened to be the gray wolf, Canis lupis. I doubt I’ll see any wolf prints in the snow this far south, […] Read more »