Cosmic Fox

 I finished my "Cosmic Fox"...she's just plain old archival ink pen on sketchpaper...

I am pretty sure she's going to be going on some t-shirts soon, that's exciting.

Meet The Maker - Day 6 - Shop Small

 Today's is the last day of Meet The Maker and the prompt is "Shop Small".

Supporting small businesses whether it's online or local is such a lovely thing and feeling...all of us small makers are just trying to make the world a smidge lovelier with our creativity and goodness knows the world

can use a bit of extra lovely lately!!

Every single order I get, no matter how big or small I do a happy dance

and get a burble of happiness in my tum.

I appreciate every single one so much.

It means the world that someone wants to spend their hard earned money

on my work and it also acknowledges my unique skills, training & hard work too.

Even if you can't buy from small businesses right now,

because let's face it, sometimes that just isn't possible,

there are still great ways that you can help us small indie businesses.

You can like our posts and I always encourage people to not just heart a post but to leave comments too....

....Reposting our work or things that you have bought from us on all or any of your social media platforms is one of the biggest ways you can help us out.

Saving our posts helps us get higher IG rankings which is a tricky beast!

and well just sharing our work & names with your family & friends

is a wonderful way to help us get our work in front of new eyes. 

Also signing up for our newsletters

and encouraging friends and family to check out our work is all super helpful. Any and all of these actions are a wonderful way to help us indie businesses out but are also great reminder to us to that someone out there is indeed paying attention and liking what we're working so hard on and in many ways that is just as important as the sales cause goodness knows we need cheerleaders, especially today in these turbulent uncertain scary & unprecedented times!

Meet The Maker - Day 4 - Silver Linings

 Today's Meet The Maker Prompt is 'SILVER LININGS'.

This one is easy cause I am a Silver Linings kind of person.

I live with two neurological diseases and a disease of the nervous system

but despite the chronic pain that's constantly ravaging and testing my body, finding Silver Linings is essential to maintaining a positive mental attitude

through the storms.  It might be something small like "Hmmm okay I might feel like I was run over by a truck" today BUT at least I have a wonderful honey who loves making me wonderful healthy meals to help me get through and that fills my heart. Or maybe I am stuck in bed feeling like my head is going to explode BUT all of the bunnies are eating and I can hear them eating and that's one of the best sounds in the world, it makes me smile right through the pain.

Or perhaps it's a really bad fibro flare day

and it's one of those days where it feels like it's taking effort just to breathe!

BUT I've got all of the Whimsical Colourful Joyful Artwork

I know I will get back to the second I feel better and that's surely a Silver Lining.

 

I think too in this unpredictable and scary time with the pandemic

Silver Linings can be found all around if we really look hard enough.

I have been latching onto the extra uninterrupted time at home

with my family, that's been extra heavenly.

And I have been feeling so very grateful to all of you lovely souls

who are supporting us Indie businesses...

especially all of you who have understood that I needed to shut down

my online shop during this turbulent awful last year with our cancer fight

but you still showed much needed support with DMs

and emails asking after and buying original work, which has been amazing,

that has truly been a HUGE Silver Lining in all of this unstable upset.

Thank You 💖 SO much.

CP Treasures

The book I am in is ready to ship out you guys.

I saw an advanced copy and holy smokes my fellow coloured pencil artists in this book are amazing,

I am quite humbled to be among them as my whimsical style and palette stick out quite abit

as it's mostly high realism work but I am in seriously talented company, wow.

I can't wait to get my copy and am still so over the moon that my work was selected.

Get your copy from Amazon today 

Just Click Right Here to buy your copy today....Enjoy!

And Thank you for the inclusion Ann Kullberg...YAYYYY.

Feather Song In My Society6

I hope you are taking the time to still send snail mail....

I think our mailboxes and hearts need it now more than ever!

You can get this design of mine in my Society6 shop

More designs and exciting goodies coming soon.

Shipping During Covid19

So I have made the decision that as much as I LOVE packaging & shipping everything off
in a very timely manner, because of Covid19 & my partner being seriously immune-compromised
I will unfortunately only be braving/chancing the post office 1 day a month and that's it.
From my own website/IG/Blog etc, I will be shipping everything out
on the 15th of every month instead of my the usual weekly shipping.

To make up for it taking a little longer to get your purchases,
I will be including extra surprise treats in all of your orders, yayyy.

I know most of you understand and I am so appreciative of you & all of your orders,
each and everyone truly means so much to me and the buns.  Thank you XO.
(If you want, you can shop in my new Society6 shop & everything there is mailed out in 3-5 days).

Sweet Sir Frogget

Oh my dapper Sir Frances Frogget convinced me to give him a quick kiss...

He's whispering sweet nothings into my ear and has quite the silly story to share.

Jaks Jelly Bean

I finally finished up the portrait of Jaks Jelly Bean...I am pretty content with it.

I just have to clean up the scan & then I'll be seeing what Society6 products it looks good on.

Airabella Almost Done

Airabella has started whispering her story to me...

Hop on by my Instagram to see what else I am working on.

Leisel In Lines

Leisel's portrait is all done...I am really pretty happy with it.  I sure do love these Micron pens.

I think it would be really fun to print this off & get some watercolour to the print., do you think?

Coloured Pencil Characters

Airabella is a farmer of lavender...I am conjuring up her little short story as I work on her.

I am thinking that this is the year I get my first book out there with all my coloured pencil characters!

Off Schedule But That's Okay

With everything going on with our health I haven't gotten my shop back up

and running like I was hoping to for January.

I am not stressing about it.  Trust me, I've finally learnt what and what not to stress about!

I'll get it done.  I guarantee lots of lovely things to come in more than one lovely place!

A Good Day Is A Day With Misa

I am enjoying this newest image...

Especially because I have Misa by my side as I work on it.

Sunday Distractions

It's Sunday today and wet & snowy out so I am basking in simple lovelies inside...

watercolours, sweet bunnies & a christmas cactus flowering...how about you???

Winter Sun & Ink Pens

I made some progress on the ink drawing of Jaks...

It's so cozy to curl up in the winter sun with ink pens.

Progress On Min's Lino

Making progress...

I can't wait to do a test print.

Fox Goddess

And because my honey wants everything to 'be normal', that means me getting back into my studio.

So here's something underway, an inkpen on paper of a cool foxy goddess...I am liking it so far.

An Oldie

Look at the old painting I found tucked away in our garage this past summer...

I did this back in high school during my Picasso obsession...too funny ha ha!

Missing My Spaces

With so much going on health wise I haven't been in my studio much lately...

I miss it terribly, both of my studios, I feel kinda guilty about that but it's the truth, I miss my work.

 I haven't been able to concentrate on anything lately for all our health worries but I am seeing that

I have to get in there for a bit somehow very soon for my own sanity, I am just not me without it!

Teela's Portrait

I revisited the portrait I did of Teela.

There was something about it that felt unfinished and I realized what was needed...

She needed some of the pink & purple from the background.  Now I am in complete love with it.

This one is just for me.  I don't know if I'll be offering prints etc or not, we'll see.