The second time is the charm! After getting lost in FedEx land, Vista resent my order with a confirmed arrival on the 14th of July!

Happy dance… Squeee!

Send off dance Squeeeeeeee!

Fingers and toes crossed dance squeee…. eeee…..eee!

Arrrg…. Do ya be needin a map just ter navigate yer room Matey? Is there a serpent a swimmin in the Sea o’ Dirty Laundry? Aaarrrg… it jes might be time to clean yer room!!

This is actually a piece taken from a dummy book that I’ve been working on for ages. I thought it might make a great promotional piece. I’m pretty pleased with the outcome!

Aaaarrgh! Well me hearties, it’s time for me to weigh anchor and go swab the poop deck!
Fair winds to ye!

Plant a radish. Get a radish.
Never any doubt.
That’s why I love vegetables;
You know what you’re about!

Plant a turnip. Get a turnip.
Maybe you’ll get two.
That’s why I love vegetables;
You know that they’ll come through!

They’re dependable!
They’re befriendable!
They’re the best pal a parent’s ever known!
While with children, It’s bewilderin’.
You don’t know until the seed is nearly grown
Just what you’ve sown.

Lyrics by Harvey Schmidt for the musical The Fantasticks

I think it’s always interesting to see the first step of an illustration next to a finished piece.

Sometimes the  the sketch is void of detail, and other times it stays pretty true to form.

I’ll add this piece to my portfolio.

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts.
Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

-Shel Silverstein

Charlotte worked the entire night on her masterpiece…and in the morning,

entangled in what would have been her ordinary web, were the words,

“SOME PIG.”

This is the third in a set of three sequential illustrations based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Now I have to go back and draw the second one. Tee hee!

The first in this set can be viewed HERE

The first in a series… based on a Jack and the Beanstalk that I did a while back. Ship shaping up the portfolio again!

With renewal and an additional five extra pictures, I was going to just add more images. Instead I did a complete overhaul. I hope you’ll get a chance to check it out!

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Yummo!
A new piece to add to the portfolio.

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