A good day if there are cookies

This painting was accepted into a show hosted by the Minnesota Book Arts and Minnesota SCBWI. These two organizations held a contest for writers to submit poems. The five poems chosen were offered to illustrators to visually depict one or more poem. The one I chose has a melancholy theme but I feel a very strong message about perspective.

There is a reception on Friday which I will attend so I can hob nob with art directors or stand around and laugh with my fellow illustrators. You just never know what will happen!

More art!

Boy with Balloons

These are drawn with an eyedropper, dried and colored with watercolor.

Nuts?

*I purposely misspelled Fischer. "Mr. Peanut hates the Fischer Nut Company.
Mrs. Peanut understands."


I am switching gears and I am only in first gear right now. I hope to crank it up to third gear by mid Feb! I am focusing my energy on the stationery market. I feel it calling me and I am ready to jump back in but this time a little differently. I am working on a portfolio to take to the National Stationery Show http://www.nationalstationeryshow.com/ and Surtex http://www.surtex.com/

Can't wait to network and see what this market is all about from a larger sense. Of course with my business Stick Together Designs (www.sticktogetherdesigns.com) I learned a bit about manufacturing and selling. This time I am interested in licensing. I am reading the Licensing Business Handbook by Karen Raugust. It is interesting to see who makes what and how it works. I hope to be a part of the who makes what and how it works, soon.

What a spin I'm in!

Oh Deer!

Dead or Alive

I don't feel I have much to write this month. I am focused on some projects and I am happy. The art class I teach is going really well and growing too. I am writing a bit more than drawing these days but I think that will change soon as I have some projects on the horizon. On a totally personal note I bought some skis and I'm in heaven, except I'm not dead.