January 6. Edwardian Brooches

My assignment this month for Lilla Rogers MATS bootcamp.
Edwardian Brooches. This is my "mini".
This assignment has been fun to research and I love some of the
creatures I see looking at all the old pins. Many with human hair.

Champagne!

I only drink champagne on two occasions.
When I am in love and when I am not. - Coco Chanel

Keep sailing

I keep sailing on it this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark.
But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. - Arthur Ashe

Sail away with me

Sail away with me. There's nothing like the sea. 

Inspiration

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. - Maya Angelou

Check out Lilla Roger's May Bootcamp for my
editorial illustration on meditation. Click here, mine is the fourth illustration down:
http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com/bootcamp-may-2014-gallery/

Jello bolt fabric

I've been taking Lilla Rogers bootcamp and our assignment
for month two was designing bolt fabric based on the jello molds.
I've had so much fun drawing, here's what I submitted.

To see all the incredible work submitted here:
http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com/bootcamp-march-2014-gallery/

My work here:
http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com/wp-content/plugins/lilla-rogers-gts/viewimg.php?img_id=641&post_id=853&p=2#viewImage

Spring break.

Hello you! I hope this post finds you well.
As the black birds come back and the sounds of spring fill the air
I'll be taking about a week off from my blog to draw and create minus a computer.
Please check back soon and I'll be back with more drawings and happy thoughts.

Think spring!

"Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind." - P.G. Wodehouse

Cuckoo-cuc-a-do iPhone case

Here's my submission to Lilla Rogers bootcamp classes.
My challenge was to design a cuckoo clock iPhone case for the gift market.

I hope you enjoy it. 

Cuckoo Time 2.13.14

I'm still working on cuckoo patterns. Hope you are making the most of your day.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir

The town goes cuckoo.

I'm taking an online illustration class and cuckoo clocks

is one of the assignments. The town goes cuckoo.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. - Wilson Mizner

Cuckoo Clocks!

Because I love them! Cuckoo, cuckoo.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy
and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Graham Greene

Flights of Fall. Pass the leaves.

Time for a nice fall lunch.
Illustrated for my Lilla Rogers MATS class.
Happy trails.

Horse Sense

Horse sense is the thing a horse has
which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

Greetings from Columbus, Ohio

My map of Columbus, Ohio, where I live. My assignment for this week's Lilla Rogers class.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest
natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. - James Thurber

I love Ohio

I love Ohio. - Dave Chappelle

Type and Smile

This was an illustration I did for my Lilla Rogers MATS class.
Drawing vintage typewriters and cameras.
So much fun and brought back good memories of my old typewriter.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away. - Eudora Welty

Camp Cricket

Camp Cricket. They are so wonderful and a joyful chirp to my ears.

This is part of my assignment for the Lilla Rogers class, a print for baby apparel.
I thought wouldn't it be fun to have a camp for crickets?
The perfect fall sound.

Camp Doodle

The ultimate camping trip was the Louis and Clark expedition. - Dave Barry

Time to camp

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...”
- John Muir

Joyful Crow

A crow is a joyful sound.
This is my Lilla Rogers assignment for class week 1. My holiday card.