Hey I'm nice...really.

Here's the award I received from teeni (one of the nicest bloggers I've met!). Teeni you have definitely have your spot reserved on my blogroll. :) It seems I have chosen the only wordpress theme that doesn't allow you to categorize your blogroll, apparently a real hang up for a recovering perfectionist like myself.

 

 

 

 

My First Illustration Job

Well it's official folks, I got the job. I'll be working on the illustrations for a educational (ESL) book. Thanks for all the encouragement. That's it for today. I am lucky enough to have one of my good friends coming to visit me at my new home. So the focus will be less on drawing over the next few days and more on beverage consumption while my cool husband has volunteered to take over all parenting duties while I get a break. I am a lucky gal.

Cool Lettering

Hand LetteringI saw this the other day on the credits of "I Dream of Jeannie" while my husband was playing the beginning cartoon part for my little guy (ahhh... youtube). I really like hand lettering. I like that it is not perfect, that not every "e" is the same. I worked on this last night. It came out pretty well for not penciling it first. Do you see my favorite pen on the side there? Have I told you I'm in love with Sakura Micron pens? I am, and now you know.While I'm sharing youtube moments, I'll tell you that I also found this one for my little guy. Excellent. We've been singing it with him to learn the numbers and finally he knows the real thing! He seemed intrigued that they were singing the same song on the video.

Will i get the illustration job? What do you think?

Here is one of the pictures I sent off today for a possible illo job. The person is putting together an educational classroom set. We'll see what they think. What do you guys think? I was debating a background color, but obviously didn't do it. I sent off a bunch of black and whites too. I'm glad I sent it either way.  It was one of my goals for the year to get work out there, wherever out there may be.  Just a goal not to over think things.

Tag, I’m it.

hrsj tagged me a while back so here goes... Go check out her art work here. INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so: 1. Blairs Boys 2. Harmonia’s Cuppa Tea 3. Vaguetarian Tea Room 4. drawing on the walls 5. temporal millionaire Next, select five people to tag: 1. ialwayswantedtobeatenenbaum.blogspot.com 2. frizzillustration.blogspot.com 3. williebaronet.blogspot.com 4. http://colesedwards.wordpress.com/ 5. http://noveltyknees.wordpress.com/ What were you doing 10 years ago? I was working on courses for my teaching certification in Illinois. What were you doing 1 year ago? I was teaching Special Education at a public school in Florida. Five snacks you enjoy: 1. Soda (Does that count? I really love it, and it's bad for me which seems to put it in the snack category.) 2. Snickers candy bars 3. Speghettios 4. Salt and Vinegar Chips 5. Flamin' Hots-Cheetos Five songs that you know all the lyrics to: 1. Jellyfish: Baby's Coming Back 2. Tom Petty: Two Room Apartment 3. Jack Johnson: Better Together 4. Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine 5. Grateful Dead: High Time Oh, so many to put on this list, but these are ones I like to play on my guitar. Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Restore my VW.
2. Work on my house. (an air conditioner for starters!)
3. Take my whole family traveling with me.
4. Start a charter school with my like-minded teacher/social worker friends.
5. Be an artist, who's not starving.

Five bad habits:

1. procrastinating
2. eating junk food
3. being a perfectionist
4. staying up late even though I know I have to get up early
5. not confronting people

Five things you like doing:

1. drawing
2. sewing
3. running
4. playing on a drumline
5. playing with my little guy Eli
Five things you would never wear again:
6. Tightly cuffed jeans
7. Shoulder pads
8. Acid washed jeans
9. Moon boots
10. Leg warmers
Five favorite toys:
11. shrinky dinks (I loved these! I don't even know if they still make them.)
12. legos
13. bike
14. wiffle bat/ball
15. Nintendo...how could I forget! I used to play Zelda with my dad.

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Sewing Machine

Finally, after days of searching through boxes at our new house, my sewing machine has been found!  It was in one of the many unlabeled boxes that were hastily packed on moving day (oh, to remember that crazy day...glad it's behind us!).

The project that was boxed before we left Florida is now out and ready to be worked on at my new pad. Get excited kids! The unveiling is now only a short time away. What?  You want a clue you say?  Time for another zine?  Nope, it's not paper and it's sewn by me with love.  I will tell you this, it satisfies all the things that make a toy good.  1. It is small enough to put in your pocket and take with you. 2. It's cute (what can I say, I like cute...maybe you don't) 3. It's fun to share with your friends.

More to come...

I'm back...finally!

Thanks to those of you have still been visiting my site even though I wasn't.  I've been busy moving.  Moving, as much as I planned for it still came up on me quickly and then the whirlwind of packing, closing, driving (FL to NY with two cats and one sweet boy), closing, unpacking, fixing, fixing, fixing and trying to live normally seemed to take up weeks without me even knowing what day it was...it's been crazy. But, I'm back, and I'm drawing and making cool things again and will be updating you all on the ongoing fun as it happens right here!

Stationary for my mom

 

So many things to make these days that there is little time left for writing about it all. Tonight I finished making some stationary for my mom. It's her birthday this weekend. I carved a linoleum block with a simple, happy, circle design. It took forever to carve because I had to be really careful with all the curves. It really came out well and I think she will like it. I was going to do a two color print, but I liked it with the single color and left it like that. It's a turquoise ink on a periwinkle paper (I wish I had more opportunity to use the word periwinkle!). I tied up six cards and six off white envelopes and will send it off to mom tomorrow.

By the way, carving lino blocks makes me think of the dentist scraping my teeth, and I can see why they never seem to be in a hurry to finish...it's kind of fun.

Illustration Friday-Your Paradise

Click on the image if you want to see it close up.

Your Paradise

Ink on some crappy paper

Here is my latest entry for IF. I started drawing this one tonight on some paper I hadn't used before and realized when I went to ink it all in the ink was going to bleed. nice. I also wanted to paint it with water colors but ran out of time. Maybe I'll do it this weekend. Anyway, that's me and my sweet boy and husband. We're taking the kid-o to see the shuttle launch tomorrow. He loves rockets and the shuttle...you can guess where I started on the drawing. Oh, sorry for the bad lighting on the picture...it's late.

I'm the Featured Art!

 

Hey check me out! I'm the featured art on The Mile Project today! Excellent. If you haven't clicked on my link to Joe's site do it now and go draw him a picture while you're at it! I drew him my self portrait that I use on the cover of my zine Temporal Millionaire. Hopefully it will end up on the mile of drawings one day.  Take care everyone...happy drawing to you!