Matching mug and cake design

Side of Giraffe painting

painting the sides to match...

Baby Shower invite

This was for a another event. Gee giraffes are popular, i guess. anyways was fun to do something like this.
Hand made baby shower invite. Illustrator and inkjet printer. and lots and lots of hand cutting, and hand sewing...
used blue ribbon to tie them together.

Giraffes!

Giraffes for first time mommy Susy! Congrats and how exciting!
Three 10x10 x 3 inch primed canvas painted with acrylic. She's having a boy.
(whew! as I realized that I used alot of blues in these!)

Melissa's character #2

okay...so I really made it very loose, as we have not received any photos or images of her.
Yo! go to Longs or Walgreens or whatever and Debra, have them help you with your camera!

Welcome Melissa from China- card

My cousins just recently adopted a little girl (21 months) from China.
So I just did this rendering of her.
Unfort... I have no idea what she looks like when I did this...but this isn't the final illustration.
*Watercolour and colour pencil (Caran D'ash and Prismacolours) and perm. ink pen.

The image below is the final illustration. Drawn on pre-made dye cut card stock.
So I turned it into a greeting card.

Friend Yoko's visit

Friend Yoko Matsuura- Japanese and German Designer from Berlin came over and showed me how to make my own rubber stamp using a rubber block. Was neat! But you have to be careful not to cut your fingers in the process.

I'd send you all her cool website/blog, but it's in Japanese...
She's an avid sewer too! <;0) Yay! someone that I can finally craft with and improve my horrible Japanese language. hah.

Watercolour...

ok. I really like my watercolour set.
it's quick, portable, and works well with other mediums. I tend to mix mines with pencil and pen.

giraffe illustrations- (ideas)

a friend of mine is expecting their first child. horray. and she's inquiring about a mural with a giraffe...
she doesn't know if it's a boy or a girl just yet.
giraffes are great, they can be great animals for both.
first and foremost, gotta be "baby-like" and pretty stylized, and I'm leaning towards something that you might
see on a child's clothing. I'm also pretty influenced by the stylized character drawings I see from Japanese illustration books and magazines. these initial sketches were done with watercolour and mixed media.

Happy New Year in Japanese

"ake-mashite omede-tou gozaimasu"