Sunny's Garden

Sunny! She's done! At last! (tis time to work on other, more pressing projects anyways)...

Still no scanner...I am in dire need of one, especially with Livi & Grace getting started and another commission, Liam's Adventures! Spring is getting busy...

But here she is! My lovely little Sunny, my first book made/written/illustrated entirely in Italy!

Sunny's Garden

Sunny was a flower picker, t'was a habit hard to ignore.

As soon as spring arrived each year, she'd sprint quickly out the door.

Behind the house was her love, a floral treasure trove.

She was quite sure it was a garden to behold.

Sunny truly had a green thumb; she was known far and wide,

By neighbors who gossiped of the garden with wonders inside.

There were daisies, roses, marigolds and more.

Irises and crocuses, colorful pansies galore.

Daffodils and tulips, and petunias too,

Many of which came in an assortment of hues.

She would pick and pluck from left row to right,

From sun up, all day, until the eve of night.

Sunny then hauled all her bouquets back inside,

Filled every single vase and inhaled, happily, with pride.

Livi & Grace

I've been asked to illustrate the book of an amazing woman in Texas! It's based on her two young daughters and is for her non-profit. I am so excited to collaborate with her.

I was playing around with what the little girlies, Livi and Grace, would look like and trying to do this weeks Illustration Friday: layers. Alas, I am too late (again) to upload to IF. But here are the little ladies, bedecked in layers of aprons, much like me and my little sister used to do at our grandparents house when we were little...

braided creepies...

I believe my subconcious is conciously making me create creepier things to counteract all the cuteness of children-ly illustrations.

This creepy little hair kick started mid fall session and has made a comeback these past few days. It's a nice mind-numbing break, doodling hair for an afternoon.

I also like the idea of braids and entangling...a kind of pretty parasitic dependency...

These little creepies are in chronological order...I'm rather fond of the latest...

oh home....

Yes I am home...home is when ever I'm in Italia!

Time to catch up. I had a couple sketches from the very end of last session that didn't make it up here and then a few new ones as well... (sadly, there is still no scanner to access so crummy photos yet again)...

First off! The final Firenze trip...which included another look at David and then a drink in the piazza in front of the Duomo.

 A quick sketch at the Roma airport before going back to California for break.

Now to the newest....

Went to the Cassero tower in town a couple days ago and started this sketch. I'll probably go back and work on it some more...

 Stopped to make this quick watercolor on my way back up to the tower the next day...another one I may work on more...



surrender...

...to the wrath of the pillow fight!!!!

 

(sadly, the scanner I was using last semester no longer has a computer attached to it...so crummy photos will have to do for the time being...)

Been far too long since I've done an Illustration Friday. Back in Italy again so the time constraints are at an all time high...
I have 2 commissions to work on now too! And I've been working on Sunny again too! And will (hopefully) be making some prints and dark room photos in the coming months...pretty excited....
AND! Starting to brain storm for this summer's Il Madonnari at the Santa Barbara Mission! yay!!!