Slug Love

A personal piece I did featuring spotted slugs. Two have hearts~These two are in love.

Glass of Win

My Dinosaur was featured on this sight along with other fun (and cool) dinosaur themed things. Raawrr

Shopaholic Saturday: Dinosaur edition » Glass of Win

Valentine friends

chocolate colored cat and dog, both holding chocolates.

ETSY

Over the snowy weekend I opened an ETSY account .I thought for some reason it would cost more money to for an account, but the price is not bad at all. I should have done this a long time ago. I put some of my work on and hope to add more soon.
Here’s the link right here~
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kaiterpillar

Birds Talking

Baby Animals

Baby animals are the cutes!
These are some line paintings I did recently.
I’m slowly trying to update my website; this is the reason for the text below these pictures.

It’s been such a long time since I have put a post.
This was a card I did for Christmas last month.

Turkey...

My turkey!
He made it threw thanksgiving… Just posting late.
I like to paint things relating to holidays. During holidays.
Goodness, I feel like I’m in third grade.

In one of my old sketch books I found this hen with cakes and a shake on top . I absolutely remember drawing this. A few years back I went threw this weekly phase where all I drew were animals with random objects on their backs or heads. Things like, a bat and a paint can, an otter and a lamp, a panda and a watering can. You get the picture. I wish I had the time to do a series based on this. maybe someday.

Word Picture

When my cousin, Ashley, Came to visit, she asked me to do a piece just for her. I was happy to.
So, I asked her to look threw my old sketch books in order to get an idea of what she wanted.
I was surprised with what she chooses. In an old sketch book, I had filled the back pages with band names and songs I was listening to at the time. Just for memories sake.
I thought nothing of it. I don’t use any reference to texts. She decided she liked writing the best.
So I did this piece of all text, in black marker pens.
In order to keep it personal. All the words written describe her and her life,
(we came up with those together)
I’m happy with how it turned out, I do think its cute.
I mailed it to her in Florida (her home) and She put it in that little black frame. Aww.

Birthday Invitations- Turtle with gifts

A Freelance job I did recently, for a fan of turtles.

I purposely put the turtle in the lower right corner of the cards instead of centering him. I suppose this gives it that “ modern off center look”. ! .
They’re going to be used Birthday Party invitations.
Its important to me to be able come up with an image that both kids and their parents will like.
I decided to go with more muted colors since they seem to print
better on off-white-
which I knew I would be using for the cards.
Anyway I do hope I get time to work on my website.

This is the completed project
A pack of about 30 cards altogether ready to be sent out.

“Halloween Song” or a Halloween wedding painting

About a month ago my friend Liz asked that I do a painting. Liz was the maid of honor in an upcoming wedding. She commissioned the artwork, to give as a present. I finished this painting several weeks ago but have been waiting until after Halloween to post it. Believe it or not this is the first original painting I have ever sold. I have sold prints and cards, but never an original.

Illustration Process

Above is the original sketch
Below A Digital Color study

Studio picture

In the painting, a skeleton couple is playing a song on Halloween night.
The swirl hill in the background is homage to The Nightmare before Christmas. Liz did ask that I put something in the painting in relation to the movie. Although the groom skeleton is in a tux, I didn’t want to paint the bride in a wedding dress. So, I went with a peach and orange dress with stitches. A scarf and bow I added as a lucky “something blue”. (From the traditional wedding rhyme). A black rose bouquet was the last detail to the finished painting. Liz had the original art framed to give as a wedding gift.

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Congratulations and best wishes to Amanda and Matt.

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In Illustration News

On Saturday, the 10th I went to the SCBWI Fall Philly 2009 conference. It was very insightful. I showed my work to two artist representatives, who gave me some good advice. My next step is to start submitting to publishing houses and children’s magazines.

Five Animals, Giving Gifts

A few new illustrations.
These were all painted on watercolor paper, but I printed them on off-white card stock. These make up a greeting card series I’ve been working on, the theme is “Giving Gifts”. I love sitting down to paint a little character now and then. I choose to do a large turtle, boar, mule, lama and kangaroo. I didn’t make the kangaroo carrying flowers in a kangaroo tummy pouch . That wouldn’t go with the series, also it would not be fair to the other animals. !

Somewhat Example.

Animal play cards

Freelance work for Client.
Design for children’s play cards.
Done in Gouache acrylic.

These are Child information cards. ( I say they are business cards for kids ) Apparently this is a recent but popular trend for young mothers.