Turnip

full view and close up

Illustration of a children’s fable. In the story the turnip is immovable until everyone lends a hand. Gouache and Acrylic on watercolor paper 9.5 x 13.

atmosphere

Up to the atmosphere…a dog and cat fly kites.
Posted for IF “atmosphere”

Gouache and acrylic painting on watercolor paper.

Colorful Moths

I painted a pattern of colorful moths for a greeting card. The colorful moths I painted in gouache. The only moth I really used reference for was the big green one in the middle, this is a Luna moth. The other moths I just kind of made up. I used reference for their shapes but not for their colors and spots/designs. I doubt there is such a blue moth like the ones I made up. I hope my moths read as moths and not butterflies and that image isn’t thrown off by the colors. I chose to paint moths over butterflies because moths have those little feather-like antennas. So cute! The colorless line drawing was the finished sketch for the painting. I did this in microns. I didn’t realize at first how much I like this image. I think the pattern in just lines looks nice. It might work as a separate piece. Though I do like the colorful painting a bit more.

Star Gazing

Posted for Illustration Friday’s “Star Gazing”
A quick acrylic and gouache painting I did this morning. The colors of the animals I kept muted. To me the muted colors allows the animals appear to be in a dark setting, which they are. My star gazers are a lion, a raccoon, and a few stripy dogs.

Chocolate Crepe recipe

“They Draw and Cook” is a wonderful blog I discovered. One of my favs! This blog is updated daily with delicious recipes and beautiful illustrations. I recently submitted my favorite recipe. Check it out :) Chocolate Crepe! Num Num Num!

http://www.theydrawandcook.com/
^ ^ ^Awesome blog! They Draw and Cook
http://www.theydrawandcook.com/2010/08/chocolate-crepe-by-kaitlyn-mccane.html
^ ^ ^ My Recipe

Artificial

Full view above and a close up view below

A pattern of robots and boops and beeps. This was done with paint, microns and digital color. Posted for Illustration Friday's theme , “Artificial ". Beep Boop Beep.