Coloring

Coloring has always been something I’ve enjoyed. It’s calming and it helps focus my thoughts. The escape that others experience when reading, I experience from coloring. I have posted free downloadable coloring pages on here, but I thought why not create some to sell?

Little Grey Pages is the name of my new Etsy store, selling coloring pages. Etsy is a fun website to browse and an easy store to use for listing items like art and crafts. I’ve enjoyed buying Christmas gifts from the vendors on Etsy. I enjoy knowing that my money is going directly into someone’s pocket, in exchange for an item they made, just for me. It really is a nice shopping experience.

Polymer Clay Animals

I’m getting married in October and we’re having a harvest/farm/Halloween theme. I’m making my own cake and I wanted little animals and jack-o-lanterns on one of the tiers. I could’ve used marzipan but I wanted to be able to keep them around after the day was over, and I wanted them to be more sturdy, so I made them out of polymer clay.

I used Sculpey III, some clay tools from my intro ceramics class, (it’s always good to keep stuff around) and some interchangeable screwdriver tips.

fox

turtle

mouse

snail

frog

owl

squirrel

crow

There’s a rabbit too… I missed him somehow in the pictures. They were really fun to make and they turned out really well. I just need to varnish them up with some gloss acrylic medium and they’ll be ready to go.

Deepwater

Still going….

same thing every night on the news and yet, there’s not a whole lot to say.

So long and thanks for all the fish…

we’re sad that it should come to this.

My entry for a an exhibition about American landscapes. I figure they’re looking for pretty little farm scenes and such but I’m thinking this is more appropriate for what’s happening now.

New Banner

A fresh banner for The Voltage Gate just in time for summer, it’s creatures of the Sahara: Desert Hedgehog, Fennec Fox, Desert Horned Viper, and Long-Eared Jerboa. By the way if any animal looks like a Pokeman… it’s the jerboa.

Current Work

YAY! Look at my newest drawings. They’re under the “Current Work” heading up above.

Easter Treats for Red Panda

Dreaming of a birthday cupcake universe… wowee.

Tattoo

Always, when someone hears that I can draw, I get the question “Can you draw me a tattoo?” Usually I tell them to work with their tattoo artist, because they’ll appreciate the opportunity to do something original themselves. I’ve even seen some tattoo artists cut deals on price, just to be able to put completed original work in their books. But a friend at work asked me for a drawing and I really wanted to do it for her, so I did.

Taurus, a la Alphonse Mucha.

New Series

I’ve started working on a series of 18 x 24 drawings. They’re kind of a combo of my planetoid drawings and the illustration I made for Jeremy for his article on forest fragmentation.

Here’s pre-color, just ink:

They make me happy. There are about a billion types of bridges, stairs, slides, pipes, and ladders, so the possibilities are endless.

Voltage Gate and Volcanic Caribou

I have another endeavor at The Voltage Gate. Pretty frequently I’ve been asked by my finace Jeremy to illustrate articles for his blog. The above illustration is for an article on volcanic caribou. Check it out, he writes very well, and he gives me limitless artistic freedoms with the topics. I will also be writing there from time, to very infrequent time, I try to keep my submissions confined to art but that’s a pretty broad topic. It’s a great site, very informative and well worth subscribing to.