No Ordinary Day: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Acrylics on a piece of magazine paper.

Can you spot the magazine text?

My just-turned nine niece, who excels in academics,

won yet another award - this time for painting.

Although I didn't get to see the painting while I was in Houston

(it's touring the city as part of a rodeo festival there)

I'm glad I could see pictures of it.

There's something magical about how kids paint,

don't you agree?

I love how my niece used purple

(who would have thought?) on the horse,

and how she outlined the fence with red.

It makes the painting really special, I think!

I have three books I need to be working on,

and I've only started on one so far.

Looking through my old files for ideas,

I came across this:

I drew it all with my mouse!

I quite like it now.

It's....atmospheric, isn't it?

Maybe I'll make more of these.

Maybe I'll make more of these

and I'll make them in fabric!

I even have it in a different colorway.

But the books...!!!!!

In my last post I wrote about the spring story

I'm illustrating for Discover.

This is what it looks like now.

I hope they have room to fit some of the story

into this double spread, with the rest of it

on a new page. I have to wait for feedback.

I did this one while on my trip to Houston with the NanoBot,

who had a blast with her cousins,

and also enjoyed signs of spring meanwhile :)

Sadly, the nest time we saw them,

three of the ducklings were gone.

But the rest of them were flourishing.