Sneak Peek of my Dover Publishing Tarot Coloring Book - due Spring 2014!

A sneak peek of my first page in my next coloring book for Dover Publishing - It will be Tarot related with the major arcana and the kings and queens - very excited - should be out this spring!

Day of the Dead

If you were my facebook friend you would know that i have a flu of some kind and a fever...it's one of those kinds of flus that, with a lot of drugs, you can sit up and paint or type on facebook and blogspot. You would know all about this because i talk about how sick i am incessantly. It's what i do. don't judge...

Daughter of the Moon AND Sneak Peak of my Oracle Deck!

I've started a new project! Daughters, and Sisters, and Mothers and Companions and all kinds of stuff like that...this is the first image - Daughter of the Moon
Prints will be available on etsy...HERE

also, here's a sneak peak of my Journey Oracle deck that will be available at B&N, Amazon, Schiffer Publishing and Borders very soon!!

Here's a link to Barnes & Noble - click HERE
and a link to Amazon - click HERE
and Borders - click HERE

Day of the Dead - Frida Kahlo Painting

just having a little fun with this...would like to do more Day of the Dead...

It's HERE at etsy if you'd like to take a better look...thanks!!

Spikenstein and his Bride - Sold

An original painting of Spike and Tilly just in time for Halloween! Can you say, Best costumes EVER! Click HERE to see it at my etsy shop...size approx. 4.5 x 6.5"

Illustration Friday - Dessert

nothing like a yummy skyscraper for dessert

Happy Blogi-versary to MEEEEEEEEE!

Well, here we are...four years! of posting art and sometimes silly stuff...i want to thank you for coming in here and reading about that stuff...and here's some free stuff FOR YOU! (ps. i wasn't an English major!)

Please leave a comment, and next Friday Aug 27 I'll put all the commenter names in a hat, pull one out and VOILA! free stuff for you!

Here's what you'll get:

One signed poster for the Humane Society of Berks County annual Walkathon that shows Sebastian, Spike and Tallulah - Spike's friends in fitness...

One wooden box with a printed portion of my painting "Angel" on the lid

One hangable wraparound 4 x 4" canvas with a laminated print of my painting called "Peacock Tree"

One hangable 2.5 x 4" wooden block with a laminated print of my painting "Deepest Loss" (one of my faves!)

and probably a few other stuff...

So, please comment and it would be cool if you told a few friends about my blog too!
xo Love, Me

Coming up for Nom-Noms!

Artist Matt Sullivan asked a bunch of other artists to create work for a just-for-fun project based on this theme: "The Thing that Ate Stuff"... he's going to try to get enough to make it into a comic book. I like themes that force me to come out of my comfort zone and this one did for sure!

On another note: My blogi-versary is in TWO DAYS! Four years baby! Stay tuned for prizes and festivals and all that cool stuff! oh yeah, and parades! we'll have parades too! xoxox

Illustration Friday word is "Artificial"

The IF word is artificial but i call this "Coppelia" after the ballet of the same name.

The ballet Coppelia was written tongue-in-cheek about a crazy man that made a doll so life-like that the town heartthrob fell inlove with her and wanted to marry her. Naturally this made the crazy man even crazier and trouble ensued. This story always creeped me out, which of course made me obsessed with it.

Note: My blog's fourth year, or is it fifth year anniversary is coming up...can someone please explain to me...if it started in Aug 2006, am i celebrating the year coming up or how many years it's been alive, and...wouldn't that just mean it's my blog's 5th birthday instead of anniversary? Am i going a little crazy from this? Maybe i should make a doll and see where that goes...Anywayz, i'll be having a prizes and stuff so keep checking back if you can!

Ripplesketches - Donate to help the poor animals of the Gulf Coast

NOTE: If you bought this, I apologize for not getting it to you - I haven't gotten an address yet from the Ripple blog! Hopefully they send it to me soon!!



My daughter Gwyneth and I did some drawings for Ripplesketches, a blog set up by Kelly Light to help the poor animals that are being decimated by the BP Oil Spill. Please help these poor animals...i will throw in some freebies as well

Ripplesketches: Each sketchcard on this blog is $10.00. The $10.00 is a donation to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Every penny is donated. The two Non-Profits that are benefitting are The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center. You can purchase a card if you donate directly to one of the non-profits and email me the confirmation and your address to ripplesketches@verizon.net. The artist will mail you the signed card.

http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/2010/06/like-mother-like-daughter.html

The Time has Come!!! YAY!!

Well, after almost a year and a half, i have compiled the illustrations and written the text for my Oracle Deck and Coloring Book and...yes, right there in that little package are the cd's full of all that stuff...

Obviously it is far from done - the editing process now begins...but...can you believe it?!! I'm DONE!!! Yay, very excited! We'll keep you posted on the next steps...

Here's a potential example of one of the cards - (Not sure if it will end up looking like this though...we'll see)

Illustration Friday - Ripple

My 9-year-old daughter Gwyneth and I made some sketches for ripplesketches which was set up by Kelly Light to help the poor animals that are suffering from the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill disaster...it's just terrible what's happening there. If you donate $10 to The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies or The International Bird Rescue Research Center you can have one of these illustrations...please go HERE to find out exactly how...

UPDATE: not sure when ours will be posted or if they will be at this point - the blog posting is behind and hopefully this is a good sign that so many artists are donating works of art for this good cause...

here's mine:


here's my 9-year-old's work:
this is a bunny trying to swim in the oily gulf


and her other donation is a drawing of a horse trying to contact his turtle friend on his conch shell phone - except only oil is coming out:


(this hasn't been posted on ripplesketches just yet but i will keep my eye out for when it is)

Tiny Sketches

i've been stalling..don't ask me why...in the mean time i make little things... like quails in front of the moon because that happens all the time...well it should anyway...

as always, thank you so much for looking.

it's available in my etsy shop HERE

Immortal Alice - (Early for Illustration Friday)

ok. this is probably more like "too late" than it is "early" since Alice seems to have been bitten by the vampire rabbit or someone equally undead-like...sigh...i will soon get out of this vampire mode i SWEAR!!

i've been writing a whole lot lately (did i mention that's killing me?!!) so i haven't been able to post on IF as much as i'd like but thought this fit the IF word just a teensy bit...

this is available on etsy HERE...

Thanks for looking and have a great day...i for one am preparing for the 18-hour LOST marathon that starts tonight at 7:00...

New Sketchies

just a few doodles...because i have other things to do that i can't seem to do...

Bumble Spike is Ready to Pollinate!

That's right - it's finally Spring and Spike has hooked on the wings and is ready to get down to some beez-niz! yes i really did just say that!

you can buy him HERE

Look at Spike and Tilly on the Vetmobile!!


and the Bird and the Bee just bee-cuz (i love them so much)

St Spikey - Just in Time for St. Patty's Day!

who knew that leprechaun you saw in your yard was really the infamous Spike? (enter cute Irish saying here...) - he's here at my esty store:



Thanks for lookin' thar (oh wait...that's pirate)

New Prints in my Etsy store!

It's been almost a month since i posted in here - that seems almost hard to believe to me! I don't even know what word of the week it is for Illustration Friday - it's been so busy in these here parts! i have had time to add a few woodblock and canvas prints to my etsy shop and an original Spike though - so if you have a moment, please check them out HERE:

ACEO's (tiny paintings) up in my Etsy Shop! (sold - but there's more in my shop!)

I found an envelope with a bunch of ACEO (trading card sized) paintings that looked very lonely - so i put them in my etsy shop FOR CHEAP! Like practically FREE! haha! Well, some have sold already so don't get left behind! (How's that for tacky sales tactics?) here's a preview...and here's my etsy shop

Mechanical Bird

(not going to say Steampunk...) (but it is...)