It's a Lemur!

Something a little different...  I made this drawing for The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary where I regularly volunteer.  Unfortunately, it didn't get used for it's intended purpose, but I like him anyway.  First time I've drawn a lemur...

More Sketches

So, in an attempt to disrupt my shameful neglect of this blog, here are some more sketches from some time ago...

Some Sketches

I feel a bit neglectful, having not updated here since quite some time ago last year!  Unfortunately, everything I've been working on as of late happens to be commercial work that I can't show quite yet, so I'm afraid I still haven't much I can share.  So, I dug up some old warm-up sketches from last year:

I think the children are from Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion.  The old butler-y character is the French teacher from the movie A Little Princess.  I thought he had such a distinctive look, that I freeze-framed through the movie and sketched him in a few poses.  I hope to get back to more regular posting in the not-too-far-distant future...

Picture Book Month: Cats

I love Christopher Denise's depiction of kittens in David Elliott's Knitty Kitty which fits today's Picture Book Month theme of cats:

Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating!  We're heading off to dinner soon, but in the meantime we were able to enjoy a Thanksgiving rainbow:

Rainbows are an incredibly common occurrence here.  I think I've seen more rainbows in the year and a half we've lived here than I had in my entire life before!

Back from Prescott

Well, I'm back in town after visiting family in Prescott, AZ.  We had a great time and kept very busy.  We started out in Tucson visiting the Pima Air & Space Museum, then drove down to Sahuarita and took a very thorough five hour tour of a decommissioned missile silo complex at the Titan Missile Museum:

 Stopped by the beautiful Mission San Xavier del Bac on the way back to Prescott:

 Got in some good hiking on the Centenniel Trail and near Granite Mountain:

And finished off with a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced Arizona Biltmore before catching our flight out of Phoenix:

It was so good visiting with family and great fun all around!

Looks like I fell behind a bit on my Picture Book Month posting - and I even have books befitting the themes of all the days I missed!  Oh well - I'll pick up with today's theme of dogs.  I found this Little Golden Book on my shelf that I must have had since I was little.  I think the puppies are adorable.  And it looks like the book's held up pretty well considering how old it is!

Picture Book Month: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

I can't say I have an especially deep interest in today's Picture Book Month theme of planes, trains, and automobiles, so I had to scrape a bit to find a book from my library fitting the topic.  The closest I could come was The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra and Sal Barracca, illustrated by Mark Buehner:

Picture Book Month: Elephants

Sally Hunter's Humphrey's Corner may be more a portrayal of early childhood than of elephants, but her softly illustrated elephant characters are simply adorable: