Paper Dogs

These were some paper doll-dogs I made for a friends birthday card. Our favorite puppies are corgis and pugs, so it was incredibly fun and adorable to make.

Merry Christmas! (Book)

I usually like to make small handmade gifts to give to all the family friends I see around the holidays. After a busy month at work there wasn't much extra time so I went to my parents house empty handed. On Monday morning we were looking through our Christmas cards we had received and I was noticing all the great festive stamps people were using on the envelopes. I thought it would be fun to make more little stamp size books that opened up into Christmas cards. I ran to the local art store and picked up some matte board, an olfa knife and some decorative paper and hammered out a few books. This was the tiny adorable end result:

Literary Carry - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

This Literary Carry contains all the items listed on a first year acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Every student begins their journey with the same set of items.

This Years Reading List

I spent this weekend wrapping up a few outstanding pages in my sketchbooks. One was this ongoing list of all the new books I have read this year. I did some little watercolor thumbnails of the cover of each once I had finished reading it. There's a full list of titles and authors after the jump.

Month of Fear - What Was Your Childhood Fear?

This past weeks challenge for the Month of Fear was to make a piece about our child hood fear. I was pretty spooked by closets when I was little, imagining what could be in different ones. So I decided to make a little book about it.

Month of Fear - Recurring Nightmare

One of the challenges for Month of Fear was to make a piece about your worst recurring nightmare. I am not a big dreamer, so I did mine about the lack of sleep, which for me, is even worse. I get so caught up in my own head, twisting and turning through my thoughts, and it's stressful and exhausting.

Month of Fear - What Lives Under Your Bed?

Our first challenge for the Month of Fear was What Lives Under Your Bed? I went with a variety of different whos and whats, this was my end result.

Worth clicking to check out a larger version.

Butterflies in Progress

Halfway through painting them all, still so much more to go!

Month of Fear!

Just as February was the Month of Love, October is the Month of Fear. This month I will be participating in another monthly challenge, this one centered all around fear! Unlike February, which was a daily challenge, October will be a weekly challenge with each week having a different theme. This week's challenge is What's under your bed?

My post doesn't go up until Friday, but some other wonderful artists have started posting already and their work is intimidatingly incredible.

Visit the challenge blog here: monthoffear.blogspot.com

Header by Jeanine Henderson

Just a 'Little' Something

Made some tiny, stamped-sized books for the sake of just making something...

Butterfly in the Sky...or on my Bulletin Board

I feel like every time I put up a new post I am prefacing it with 'it's been a busy _______.' But really, it has been. There's still plenty of art getting produced, just never enough time at the end of the day to put it on the internet. This week I'm going to try and play a little catch up. And it will begin with my most recent project, a butterfly collection.

No that's not mine silly, that's from the Manitoba Museum.

I always have found butterfly collections beautiful but also a bit morbid cause those are dead butterflies. And I never knew, did they kill them just to pin them up? Because that doesn't seem quite right to me. So I decided to make a vegan cruelty-free butterfly collection. I have drawn many pages of butterflies and know am on to the painting process. Once they are all done I will cut them out and pin them into a shadow box or frame.

Here's a few sketches...

 

All the tape is there because I would draw one side of the butterfly and then trace it on tracing paper and just flip it over, cause symmetry's a pain.