It’s a little excessive, but we’re trying to teach Sully to clock in and out when taking breaks. A quick and dirty sketch for this week due to excessive deadlines looming at work.

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This week’s illustration was done entirely with Crayola crayons.

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I created some new packaging for my jewelry pieces. Shown here is the booklet insert illustration and artist bio.

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My artwork in these pendants depict figures in hues that seem once vivid, and are now faded. I want to transport viewers into a dream-like world where the mythical characters tell ancient tales of enchantment. Perspective and composition evoke Medieval and Renaissance icons. I created the artworks in a wide variety of media; pencil, oil, acrylic, and digital collage. These little trinkets are going to be shipped off to the store this week to patiently wait for their new owners… sniff, sniff!

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Eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog. In an age when medical practice was founded upon superstition and quackery, snake oil peddlers sold colored water or tincture to gullible patrons of carnival sideshows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I created the labels in Photoshop and put them on reproduction apothecary style glass jars that recall the containers once used in pharmacies and candy stores.

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Sully scales the lofty cliffs like a mountain goat as he passes the winter on the rugged highlands. On second thought, Sully is probably better at scaling the unforgiving terrain of the pillows on the couch in a warm house. This was created with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Caolainn was a goddess who was the guardian queen of a magical well in Ireland. She helped grant wishes, usually ones which taught the wishers that they didn’t really want what they thought they did. Her myth is the origin of the well known ‘wishing well’. She is associated with wishing wells and falling stars. Rules Over: Wisdom, healing, fertility. Pencil sketch and paper collage in ruled Moleskine notebook.

Caolainn has also been made into a soldered pendant necklace. Also available is a pendant with a vintage mother of pearl button with remnants of thread and my recent Morgain painting.

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Trying to think of ideas for holiday presents, I decided to solder my latest Moleskine illustrations under glass with some fresh new jewelry findings at the top. A sterling silver bali bracelet attachment and a cute little lady bug bead seemed like the perfect accessories for the necklaces.

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Old-time cigar labels have been placed under vintage glass typewriter keys. The keys have been affixed to a 7.5" silver cable chain bracelet with a sterling silver toggle clasp. For sale on my etsy store.

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A collage using Letraset dry transfer color paper on cold press illustration board. Drawing inspiration from the wraparound porches of Savannah where we would drink sweet tea and savor the languorous pace of life. It was a quiet place to enjoy the warm evening breezes and beauty of dusk in the low country before taking a nap (when I used to have time for such luxuries). Unlike Indiana, people in Savannah take time out of their days to relax on their porch.

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