A few assignments

If you want to grow as an artist, classes help. I'm taking a couple of graduate courses in the school of illustration at AAU-SF. Here are a couple of them.

Green Bunny & Friends

Green Bunny and his friends, Kitty, and Robot are not too busy for cookies. The story is a twist on a folk tale. Green Bunny is real however. First, he was a dream. Then he became a green fleece stuffed animal for a child. Now he has a life of his own.
The illustration is done in gouache and ink.

May your Muse be with you in 2009

Wishing everyone a healthful, joyful, peaceful, creative 2009. May your Muse be with you in all that you do!

Who's snoring now?

Who's snoring now? Just the blog, not us! In the past year, my daughter has added two children to our family. The first was adopted and is 11 months old. Her birth-parents are from Eastern Africa. The second related by birth is 2 months old. Someday she will have to ponder that her sister can have 2 sets of parents: adoptive and perfect birth parents, while she is stuck with the reality of only one set, who probably won't be perfect. :-/
Being adopted myself has given me some insight into the imagination of adopted children. When my daughter was born, she was the first biological relative I had ever seen. And she was even more perfect than my imagined birth-parents. Life is magical.
Goodnight!

Forgotten IF

Cleaning the cabin with Snow White

When cleaning their little cottage, one of the hard-working dwarfs points out his lazy companion, Sleepy, to Snow White.

Who's the fairest in the land?

 
Not the Queen in Snow White, as she looks like she could use a spa vacation and some Buddhist philosophy.