After a long time, some digital work

I should really work on my blog

- there's so much I need to do to make it better -

and I definitely need to work on my shop and

PUT SOME WORK IN IT ALREADY!!!

But, when I sat down at the computer I just ended up playing instead.

Again.

In its first life, this picture was an out-of-focus headshot of a hydrangea bloom.

Like so:

A little tweaking later, it metamorphosed into this:

And now I'm thinking:

I wonder if I can translate this into fabric?

Knock, knock!!

Oooh, I'm still here - just totally neglecting my blog lately.  And my shop.

  Life is full, though! 

Between getting our house ready for sale, I illustrated one of the two books I had to work on, finished a large fabric necklace for a custom order, and started work on two ENORMOUS canvases (at 6 feet by 4 feet, these beauties dwarf me completely :)) for another custom order!

Some quick pics:

After a good coat of gesso, I painted on a mix of red, green and yellow that yielded a brown so choclaty that it even smelled like chocolate!!  Then I drew a rough sketch of the Toronto skyline using plain chalk.

The client wants the CN tower (of course) on one,

and more buildings on the other.

The sky roughed in.

This is the other canvas, also with the sky done so far.

And here's the fabric necklace I was working on as well...

This custom piece, already delivered, is based on my earlier piece called "My Favorite Playground", which I sold at the WhoKnew show in April

to a very sweet girl. 

And drawings from the latest book I illustrated...

need to start working on the other one soon,

since the publisher sent me two at once!

I love being busy!

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