Mother's Day

Mothers Day evokes the strongest blend of emotions. May your day bring peace, special memories, hope and an appreciation of the sacrifice, love and hard work our mothers give and gave for us. If you are a mom, let go of any guilt or feelings of falling short and take hold of the miracle of bearing a child, caring for them, having the honor of holding lives in your care for a short time and the privilege of impacting them for good.
God bless each mother out there!

Two Children's Illustrator Friend's links

I am so lax in blogging lately. I've had way too much on my plate, and trying to keep up with it all, and rest and keep my sanity has been all I can do. I decided to post links to two of my favorite 'children's illustrator friends' who it is an honor to know and consider friends...
Ginger Nielson and Sherry Rogers...Their work and they themselves are incredible...take a look.

April Fool's!

Check out Wikipedia's April Fool's info...
here's another site with April Fool's stuff...

G'Day Mate with Google Australian style

Check out Google's Australian gDay with Mate...info a day ahead.

Gone so long....

Wow..It's been a long time since I've posted. It's been an especially busy season lately with various family and personal activities at home and around....school fun fairs, prep for Easter, church activities, and lots of art to do. I'll post some fun links I've found lately asap.

In the meantime...Spring is nearly here and feels like it's here in VA.
We've got a pair of birds building a nest in a birdhouse near our kitchen window, buds are sprouting, iris greenery is sprouting from the ground..the forsythia is starting to bloom and the weather has been beautiful lately...and Easter is nearly here already!

Another Pen and Ink Rendering

Here's one I finished yesterday..had to rush it out and the scan has some dark shading due to not fitting on the scanner.

The Portrait Party

Check out The Portrait Party...a blog that deals with portraits and is now accepting posts of artist's self-portraits. I don't have time to do one at the moment, but am posting about it for you all. It sounds like a fun challenge.

My Friend on Blog Talk Radio

My dear friend Tracy is now taking part in a weekly round table radio discussion, with several women called Women of Grace and Freedom. It's located here on Blog Talk Radio.

Character Design Blog

Character Design Blog has some wonderful interviews of cartoonists and artists and their creations, characters and the process of creating them.

Scrabulous

Scrabulous is an addictive site where you can play virtual Scrabble with folks from all over the world. I found out about it through facebook and am completely addicted.

Wise Elephant: Design and Influence

Wise Elephant is a new blog about art, design, illustration and related items.

For Andrew Loomis Fans.....

Here's a great treasure for Andrew Loomis fans. The Latest issue of Illustration features Andrew Loomis's work. It is issue number twenty. I was thrilled to get it and see many of the famous illustrations from his book Creative Illustration and others. You can order that issue from their website.