Art Monday ACEO Swap: What About Cats?

This is somewhat belated, due to moving and settling in, but here are the ACEO's I recieved from the Swap!!! This was a lot of fun, not only to do for, but to wait for too! Here are the one's I recieved.
Thank you so much to Esmeralda for hosting the swap and for a lovely "Singing by the Moonlight aceo, and thank you to Robin, Katz, and to the artist who created the 'Collage Cat Print!'

Monday Art Day ACEO: Kitty Trade

My three submissions for the ACEO trio cat trade. They're Kokeshi Kitties!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

To bring in the new year, here's an illustration.
May much happiness, health, and prosperity come your way this year!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Wishing everyone a wonderful happy holiday season, and best wishes to the New Year! Hope Santa brings you what you wished for this year!
CHEERS!!!

painting: Owl Eyes On You

felt the urge to paint, and a sketch of owl eyes had been haunting me for some time. I really like how it turned out. I made it such a process, which is something I don't normally do, since I like to get things done in one sitting, but it felt good to see what came of my patience!

He's a cutie, and makes me smile when I see him starin back at me.. although it can be a little creepie at times to know you're being watched, no less, by detached owl eyes.. yoiks.. He's been begging me to make some prints of him, and maybe put him on some stationary. What do you think? Should I listen to him?!!! You'll have to suggest some name's for "him" since he doesn't have one yet.

Hoot Hoot Hooray.. :D

Hello, Kitty!!!

ok.. I'm the biggest kidult EVER.. my friend sent me this link today, and I just about booked a flight to Japan, just so I could use this phone... The phone has been Hello Kittied out.. inside, outside, even sideways, and the graphics are neato.
Check it... :D


gimme.gimme.gimme....

artdc.org Exhibition at U Street Space

This sounds like it'll be a fun show!!! I can't make it, since I'm quite a few hours away, but hope those in the area will show their support for the arts! Check out the artists at artdc.org
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—artdc.org, a Washington, D.C., artist’s forum, presents “Art in Transition Continued” on Saturday, October 13, 2007, in the future Greater Goods building, 1626 U Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009. Doors open at noon; an art party is 6 p.m. to midnight.

“Art in Transition Continued” is the continuance of a group art show held in 2005. For the first show, “Art in Transition,” 27 Washington, D.C.-area artists displayed their work in four transitioning commercial spaces in Silver Spring, Md.

This year’s show is in the future home of Greater Goods at 1626 U Street, NW. This “empty” building provides the perfect opportunity for an organization such as artdc to host its own art show. Jesse Cohen, founder of artdc.org, explains, “Transitional space provides an opportunity to develop grassroots art shows, which currently aren’t available through existing spaces.”

The participating artists are: Steve Mead, Antoinette Wysocki, Jodi A. Patterson, John N. Grunwell, Dan Rosenstein, Alexandra Zealand, Alexandra Silverthorne, Kim Reyes, Emily Berl, Christie Ortiz, Rhett Rebold, Raju Singh, Steve Loya, Stephen T. Hanks, Matthew Best, Graham Meyer and Adam Eig.

“A unique feature about this show, aside from the great art,” Cohen says, “is that the artwork was selected by an external jury member who does not have ties to artdc.org artists.”

Mark S. Waskow, art collector and founder of the Waskomium in Burlington, Vt., is the juror for “Art in Transition Continued.” The Waskomium is a collection of contemporary art.
Waskow selected the work of 17 artdc.org members (there are more than 1,500 members of artdc.org). Pieces include 2-D, 3-D and installation art.

“He (Waskow) juried the art from artdc.org’s online gallery,” Cohen says of the selection process, “based on the idea that you can experience the presence of a work of art through its image.”

A fellow artdc.org member recommended that Waskow jury “Art in Transition Continued” because of Waskow’s support for the development of art communities.

Through events like “Art in Transition Continued,” artdc.org initiates artist discovery, encourages art discussion, advances creative development and promotes art collection, with the goal of developing movements in Washington, D.C. artdc.org provides virtual real estate for artists and art organizations. artdc.org aims to bridge the communication between artists of all mediums, galleries and collectors. With this goal in mind, the aim of artdc.org is to develop face-to-face relationships in addition to those in the virtual world.
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Meomi has a new book out!!! The Octonauts and The Sea of Shade!!!

Meomi, an awesome design team that is all about the cuteness, has come out with book TWO!!! The illustrations and characters grab your heart and won't let go as soon as you first glance at them. It's like a stare down, and they're going to win no matter how hard you try to put on your mean face!

blurb from site:
"THE OCTONAUTS are a crew of cute critters who love to explore the big blue ocean. From their undersea "Octopod" base, the eight talented animals are always ready for fun and excitement. In their second adventure, all the shadows in the world have gone missing! The Octonauts must travel to the mysterious Sea of Shade to learn why. Can the Octonauts convince the great Shade King to return everyone's shadows?"

And here's a sneak peek spread from their new book.

tooooo freakin cute!!! Go check out their sites too!!!

www.meomi.com
www.octonauts.com

yaaarrrgh

arrr.. matey..

Still trying my hand at digital painting. I finally was able to devote some time to it! yay!
The sketch was scanned in this evening, and digitally painted in Photoshop. The middle piece is a chip from Vegas. A friend had gone recently, and brought me back this token chip.. and who better to guard the chip then a swash-buckling peg-handed pirate.

Hope ye like me bootie.. aarrr.. :)

New Header! Yay!

Was futzin around with some site designs this evening, and thought I'd create a header image for my blog. Hope ya like!

(I'm stuck, as far as trying to center the image though.. argh... If you feel like sharing any pointers, I would really appreciate it!)

Pocoyo!!!

I've fallen for this little guy, his friends and his adventures.
Amazing how far and how successfully ZINKIA Entertainment, S.L., have come with the making of this animated show. It has hit many international markets already. I hope they start showing the show in U.S. soon!

You must check out their site and blog:
Zinkia Entertainment, S.L.,
Official Pocoyo Site
Pocoyo Blog

Happy 30th Birthday To Meeeeeeee!

Wow... I'm 30... I don't feel... 30... I hope I don't think I have to feel 30 from this point on.. although I have been noticing a few extra wrinkles around my face I could do without.. hhhmm..
I guess since I'm 30 know I can pass on some wise old wisdom to them yung'uns out there.. Age is just a number. Mind the simple pleasures. Life is about living out your passions.

As my wise aunt says.. "Live Passionately."

Happy Valentine's Day too! ♥

New sketch spreads from M2

Took some time this weekend to scan in some pages from my second moleskine, (if yer intuh-rested!)

So go grab some hot cocoa and sit yer butt down for some more fun sketchie randomness! That's one thing I've noticed with my sketch books is the amount of randomness there are in them. It's with me 24/7 and open so if a thought occurs I can quickly scribble it out!
I have to apologize for all the writing in them too.. I'm in planning and brainstorming mode, so you'll see a lot of notes-to-self.

The Doodle Monkey Dump

Hooray!!!

My parents came by today, bearing gifts '0' plenty! They gave J.D. his belated birthday gift, a beautiful pool cue rack and cocktail stirrers, and for me, something I've been hopping from foot to foot for since christmas (since they had to send in what they originally got for an exchange.) *eeeeee* I'm soooo excited!!! I finally have, and hooked up already, the WACOM 6x8 Intuos3 Pen Tablet... *sigh! I am in love with this thing! (I'm such a nerd!!!)
So as promised, I sent my parents the first thing I made with it!


Thanks Mom and Dad!!!

Hoo-Hoo

Had this little guy prepped on canvas for awhile, so while my husband hogged my computer to do taxes, I thought I'd finish him up.
He originated from an attempted sketch of a skull. I have this habit of putting random jibberish next the sketches that happen to be there when I think of the non-word.


So here's Hoo--Hoo. He likes the water, especially when bubbles float past him. His favorite food is fried calamari, and of course, loves long walks on the beach. He loves to talk about his adventures, so hope you're a good listener!

DC Art Org Show: FLUX: TONIGHT!!!

A one night art show happening in good 'ol VA, in the town of Clarendon. The show is taking place within an old body shop, with tons of DC area artists showcasing their work with the accompaniment of live performances.

I have a previous engagement, so won't be able to make it (believe me, I'm crying inside.)

It's a little last minute, but if you're in the DC metro area and want something fun to do, go to this show!

FLUX show info

Pan's Labyrinth

WOW! An incredibly fascinating story, that is a must-see. A friend and I went to see it yesterday afternoon, and I just fell in love with the story. It really blends the lines between fantasy and reality for this little girl, Ivana Baquero, who is a wonderful young actress. The imagination, creativity and amount of detail that went into the production of this film is magic in and of itself. The film is in spanish, but is subtitled.

Pan's Labyrinth site

Home Project

We've repainted our upstairs guest bathroom all white, and it looks sooooo much better than it used too. There was a country blue floral border along the top, and the wall color was an off-white, brown, cream grossness. I wanted to puke every time I passed it. Well, since we were expecting guests to stay with us for awhile, we decided that now was the time to give it a bit of a face-lift. We took out the shiny brass sliding doors to the bathtub that had crackly glass and a delightful stenciling of flowers. blech.. Than we took out the 80's studio vanity lights, and the country bumpkin vanity mirror off the wall, and replaced it with what you see now. And we couldn't feel more refreshed with it.


In all the excitement, I painted a simple painting to put above the toilet. I'm still working on the small shelf that will be put below the painting to hold some small baskets of stuff.
Thought I'd share, since J.D. worked so hard to put it all together!

anticipation is killin me...

well, first, my thoughtful parents got me a wacom intuos tablet for xmas this year.. unfortunately they had to return it to exchange it for a smaller one. So I've been waiting oh so patiently for that to arrive, so I can start playing around with it!!! Come on Mister Postman!!!

Secondly, I went out to Plaza Artist, and bought a new moleskine sketchbook. I've almost completed my first moleskine, (a large graph lined notebook), which has been a wonderful starter. It's also the first sketchbook I'll ever be completing, front to back, so this is a very exciting accomplishment for me! (it doesn't take much!)
This time I got the large sketchbook moleskine with plain thicker pages, so ink (hopefully) won't bleed thru. I'm dying to take it out of it's plastic sheeting, and open it.. feel the pages, take out all of my pens, pencil and markers and start experimenting with what works on its surface and what doesn't. oooh.. I'm sooo anxious to open it..

By the way.. I've updated my sketch dump blog if you were interested!

Cheers!

Yip-Yip, Hooray!!! One full year of blogging has past, and I'm still blogging! I have Illustration Friday to thank for keeping challenged. I also have you to thank for viewing my posts, leaving messages behind, that draw inspiration and motivation to keep sharing. Thanks for celebrating with me!!! Happy One Year Blog-iversary!!! Woot, Woot!