This week on my drawing board

At the Lizard Lounge, a painting in my sketchbook

Lizard Lounge print at Spoonflower and Society 6

Sketchbook for a painting in progress of a family from Alameda, CA

This week on my drawing board

Journal cover

White foxes on ice, that's nice! A sketchbook page I began earlier but just finished.

I seem to have overlooked the coming of the new year, as evidenced by the date stamp.

This week on my drawing board

This week in MATS class, we're doing children's picture books. The assignment was illustrating the cover or a spread of Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" fable. I saw the tortoise as being a very organized and positive fellow, who would plan out his journey to the "T". I love painting rain scenes, so I threw that in because I wanted to make my painting feel really atmospheric.

Here's the final cover

I began in my sketchbook, and it gave me some ideas for how I might approach a spread. In the end, I decided to do the cover for now, because it's something I want to work on and add to my portfolio.