Maple & Charlie

My painting is a portrait of two dogs, Maple and Charlie on an old bronze double bicycle. I did this painting for Emily, who I work with. She is the Visual Manager at Anthropologie, Brinton Lake. I wanted to use something unique to Brinton Lake's Anthro in Emily's painting. Since she is our visual manager I choose the old double bicycle, which is a visual prop sometimes used at our store. In the photo its sitting in the hallway in the back of the store... It doesn't look too glamorous here, but its actually a really neat old bike, especially when its on display. Maple (brown/girl )and Charlie (gray/boy) are Emily's two small dogs. They are so cute in this photo. In my painting they are on a spring outing to a picnic with bread, wine and glasses. Maples bow matches the cloth covering the picnic basket. The seats on the bike have the same white covers with red stitching ( a bit hard to see in the photo). The handle bars are yellow and are in two different styles. This painting was done in gouache and acrylic paint on watercolor paper. 10x14in.

Bunnies and chicks

I used these as easter cards this year : )

Cupcake Logo

I was commissioned to come up with a logo for a starting cupcake company called "Ever So Sweet". I painted this happy little cupcake with heart on top, then added digital color. The font was hand drawn. I think its simple but sweet. Smile.

FIG JAM 3rd place

I won 3rd place in the TDAC fig contest :D

THIRD PLACE WINNER

	Title:	California Figs Strawberry Jam
	Artist:	Kaitlyn McCane
	Location:	Philadelphia, PA
	Website:	http://kaitlynmccane.com

This was featured on the California figs website.

http://californiafigs.com/draw-cook.php

Fig Jam

I did a recipe for TDAC fig recipe illustration contest. I chose Strawberry fig jam. I got the recipe from "California Figs" website (posted on TDAC) They have a bunch of wonderful fig recipes.

Below I was featured on TDAC

http://www.theydrawandcook.com/recipes/california-figs-strawberry-jam-by-kaitlyn-mccane

TDAC book cover

I had to sign a contract last November, why...

Because my Crepe Recipe Illustration Is going to be published in this book! It will come out this October...So excited!!!

The cover Is too cool! Read more about TDAC and the book by going to the site below.

http://www.theydrawandcook.com/blog/cover-design-for-the-upcoming-tdac-book#comment_col

Below is the address for my recipe illustration. Sorry no links :L

http://www.kaitlynmccane.com/Kaitlyns%20Main%20images%20for%20web/Cards/Chocolate_crepe2.jpg

Cozy Fox

Its still winter. Put on your layers and bundle up!

Painting a cute little dog!

I was asked to do this painting by friend. I will be printing the image on greeting cards. This puppy, Cody is overwhelmingly cute! And I just love his red sweater!

Gouache and Acrylic paint on watercolor paper.

Chicken on a bike

Just a quick little sketch with digital color of a chicken on a bike.

Drink Product Adds

Obviously this is a personal project... I did as a christmas present to myself. These are all 11x14 hand painted on canvases. You can see larger postings in my Behance file. A link is on my left side bar. I came up with this idea because I just thought it wold be interesting. I did the sketches last spring and decided to use time and money to do the paintings as a christmas present for myself. I believe these really don't fit in my portfolio. They are not real products and they are painted very loosely compared to my usual pieces. I just did them quick for fun. There is more in the series that I just didn't really have time for, an Emerald deer for German beer oh and maybe a tea add as well. When I told people about this project everyone had a suggestion to add. My friend Fii wants me to do an add for Bogie (british slang for cigarettes) with a raccoon. And I remember my friend megan asking me to do a zebra with boxed wine. Bogie is british and boxed wine is well, boxed wine. Im sure you can find it anywhere. So those two might become little paintings for friends. Anyway in the paintings the bear is bringing potatoes for the vodka. The horse grapes for the wine. The crane rice for the sake and the llama beans for the coffee. Oh, this is my 100th blog post. Cool, yay.

Windmills

I designed a tee shirt submission for threadless.

Below is a link

Vote for my design : )

Love Birds

A Valentines card in January. Actually This was just a black and white painting I did today. I scanned it and gave it some February color.

Sparky!

In case you didn't know or if you just forgot, Sparky's the bull terrier from Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. I don't know why but I was just in the mood to draw him. When I looked up his picture online... I read on some website(s) that Tim Burton is going to make a new stop animation version of the film in 2012. Sounds cool. I had the original Frankenweenie when I was little and it used to scare me. haha. I sill watched it all the time. Anyway I did this little sketch of sparky.

Coyote, fox and wolf

Three paintings done in gouache and acrylic. Each are 9x12 on canvas. The first I painted was the fox , I painted this because a few weeks ago I saw a Huge fox right below my back deck. This fox was Huge! About the size of a medium dog.... It was kind of alarming. He was a brilliant orange and had the white tipped tail. I have been drawing a lot of foxes since and finally decided to paint one. I think He turned out really nice, and is my favorite in the series. I Painted the wolf and coyote for more practice.

This I posted for Illustration Friday's Deja-vu because the three paintings seemed so similar when I was painting them. Also the fox was very familiar.

Painted Pets

This is a portrait of three pets. Jasmine, Star and Mickey (left to right). I did this painting for Yeshin, who I work with at Anthro, These are her three babies. This painting was done in gouache and acrylic on watercolor paper.