Archive | February, 2006
Illustration Friday: Song

Illustration Friday: Song

Here’s my drawing for Illustration Friday and Yankee Doodle Dandy — that’s the song. You may remember I started this drawing for a quilt long ago, around the fourth of July, but I never got around to explaining it. One summer during college I got a job delivering singing telegrams. I usually wore a tuxedo [...]

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Annual Planning Retreat

Annual Planning Retreat

This is where we’ve been for the last two days — holed up in a little cabin in the woods. So nice that it snowed for our adventure, the only snow we’ve had this year! Made the whole thing more romantic. Russ and I always take a little retreat early each year to examine our [...]

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Does It Still Work?

Does It Still Work?

Wow, thanks for all the great compliments on the card. It helps to have encouragement on my design as I get ready to present it the museum curator. However after sleeping on it, I started to doubt my little kokeshi dolls in the corner. Although they match the color scheme of the card, they aren’t [...]

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New Directions

New Directions

Sometimes when you don’t work for a while and then you come back, things just fall in place really easily. We need to have a postcard design for our upcoming group museum show in April. I was going to just send the museum some single images and let them pick. But a single image wouldn’t [...]

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What to when You’re Sick?

What to when You’re Sick?

Emmie was half right! Rita, Penelope, and George were based on real people. Matty and Tish were completely made up. It’s been a week since I posted anything, because I’ve been sick and in bed all week. Haven’t done anything except read and draw my new Valentine’s Day header. Here’s some books I read that [...]

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