Illustration Friday topic is Identical.

I found identical an interesting idea for a topic. Even when things are close in look that are rarely identical. I found these beautiful onions at the farmers market and HAD to paint them. This is oils on canvas.

Cutting Board Samples Have Arrived

The samples for the cutting boards I licensed art for came today. I think they came out nice. It's always fun to open boxes with product with your artwork on it. Christmas in August!                                                                             

Illustration Friday Topic- Tall

I think the first thing I think of for the topic tall is one of my favorite animals, giraffes. This painting is one of the images from the e-book animals MUST BE. The painting was done in oils on board. I love painting animals and this one was really fun to paint.

Illustration Friday Topic-Freeze

This is an image from the Two Can Art collection of work. The collection is a collaboration between myself and my son, Noah who is autistic. Noah paints all of the textures and I fuse them with design.
I thought this bear image would be a good fit for the topic Freeze in that it is clearly a winter day and also if I ran into this guy I would probably freeze as well.

Illustration Friday Topic- Lonely

I really enjoyed painting this young man. He is really a sweet teen. I have a friend with a teen age boy and I was looking for teen agers for reference. She showed up with around a dozen. It was actually really great and I got a lot of great reference material. I think it fits the topic nicely since I went really cool with a lot of the coloration. This is oil on board.

Illustration Friday Topic- Carry

I did this painting a couple of years ago for a picture book that I wrote. The painting is done in oils on board. I thought it fit the topic carry nicely.

Illustrator Friday Topic- Suspend

I have been practicing painting in photoshop and have been reworking this image that was originally painted. I still have quite a bit to do on it, but it's been interesting. I have moved to some other photoshop painted images from scratch too. Thought I'd just show how far I got on this rework.

Illustration Friday- Topic Refresh

When I think of refresh I think of cold lemonade and watermelon on a warm day. Although it is warm here it is nothing like what many others are coping with. I wish cooler refreshing times ahead for all of you.
This image is watercolor on board.

Illustration Friday topic- Space

I did this a while ago as a cover for a picture book that I wrote. I still need to go back and edit the story, but I did a couple of images as paintings for it. I look at it now and think I may go back into the painting a do a little more work on it too.

Illustration Friday Topic-Secret

This Secret Santa painting has been very good to me. It has been licensed for gift bags, cards, flags, mailbox covers and needlepoint. It's oils on board. I like painting people a lot and Santa is a great character to do. I have done quite a few of them.

Neil Gaiman-Inspirational For All Those In The Arts!

Just listened to this and found it really interesting. Thought others would like to see it as well. I really like his books a lot. Hope we are all out there making "Good Art"

Illustration Friday Topic-Shiny

This weeks topic is shiny and I thought I'd put up this image that I did of shiny green apples with the sun shining on the shiny apples and the shiny green container. It's oils on canvas and I was working on painting reflections and light. It was an exercise for me to push myself.

Samples are Here!

I just got some samples from my licensing agent of the coasters/tiles that some of my images are on. I also got a sample of one of the cards that was recently licensed. I do love getting samples.

Illustration friday topic-Hurry

This is a painting I did in oils on canvas that I thought fit the topic hurry. He does look like he's hurrying.....
This image does well as a giclee print. It's a favorite when I hang art locally in the Santa Cruz area. I feel really lucky to live in an area where people really like and support art.

I've been so busy getting new art together for the Surtex licensing show that I haven't posted for a few weeks. Nice to get back in the saddle.