Hello December!

Sorry for neglecting my blog once again! I have been meaning to post these card designs I did for Marian Heath for the past couple weeks but I kept getting sidetrack and I really wanted to share them. I hope everyone Thanksgiving was fantastic with lots of yummy dessert :). I really need to make a New Year solution to blog more often. I will post some Christmas work on here really soon since were in that season now. Take care!

Vote For Me!

Hey Everyone! Today the Lilla Rogers' Global Talent Search Round 2 online gallery open to vote for the People Choice to enter the final round for the talent search.This is the design I created for Round 2 Fall Farmers' Market Tote Bag Theme. Please vote for my tote bag through this website link:

http://lillarogers.com/wp-content/plugins/lilla-rogers-gts/viewimg.php?img_id=1029&post_id=10653

When you go to the website click on my design, enter your email address then it will send you confirmation click the confirmation link. Then this will confirm your vote.

Thank you so much, I appreciate it!!!

Lilla Rogers' Global Talent Search: Semi Finalist

I found out some great news this morning I made it into the semi finals for Lilla Rogers' Global Talent search. For the first assignment everyone created a journal cover with a playground theme. This is cover I submitted for the contest. I'm very excited to move forward to the next round.

Making Art That Sells Week 3: Children's Books

For week 3 Making Art That Sells our focus for the week was children's books. I love illustrating for children's books it's fun and exciting. I also love collecting and reading children's books. Our assignment was to read Hans Christian Andersen "The Snail & The Rose Tree" and illustrate a cover or a spread for it with lettering. I never heard of this book before and I did enjoy reading it. I actually had to read it several times to get a better understanding of the story to visualize it. If you haven't read this story before it's a good read and recommend it.

Overall I enjoyed this assignment while I guess have been enjoying each assignment and the inspiration given to us during this course. I get excited when Mondays roll around now to found out what's in store for us. When the course is over I'm going to start making assignments for myself each week it's fun and challenging.

Home Decor: Plate Design Assignment

Our class assignment this week for class was to create a plate design for a client in mind like Crate & Barrel, West Elm & Anthropologie. I love these stores and would love to freelance for them someday! I use to work for Crate & Barrel when I was in college yeeeeears ago I was a Sales Associate there for about year and half.

The theme of the class assignment was pods and succulent. I never thought about drawing this form of plant before it was fun researching it and finding inspiration. At the beginning of the week I pulled out my watercolor, gouache, colored pencils and pens because looking around on Athropologie website at their plate designs inspired me to start creating some traditional pieces. I sketched and practiced for a little bit. I scanned it in and colored it in Illustrator. One of my goals for the future is to sketch and color everything by hand. When doing everything by hand you make a mistake you have start all over again. I know in time I will get better with practice.

Swinging Around

How was your weekend? My weekend was good. I didn't do anything special this past weekend. I stayed at home which is probably a good thing because it's pollen season and cars are covered with it. I enjoyed my time at home I watched my favorite shows on Hulu and relaxed. Plus I played the Sims 3 which I don't get a chance to play it often because it's very very time consuming and only get a chance to play it few times a year.

I recently purchased the new expansion for the Sims 3 University Life and it's really fun. You get to choose a major for your Sim out of the 6 majors (Communications, Business, Technology, Science and Medicine, Fine Arts, Physical Education) and guess which major I picked for my Sim?! Fine Arts. It's cool because you get to see them go to lecture class and sketch class outside. My favorite thing to do on the Sims is decorating the house plus they offer Interior Decorator career (with a different expansion pack) you can go and decorate other Sims houses in the town.

I know enough about the Sims lol. I plan to share more things I like and collect later this week plus I have a few art related announcements so stay tune.

Thank You

I just wanted to say "Thank You" to everyone for stopping by my blog and following! I hope everyone week is going good. My week is going well. The weather is nice, sunny and hot the signs of summer is definitely near. I created this thank you illustration last month to post on my Facebook for my birthday. I had sketched the ladybugs over a year and decided to turn it into a thank you card. I'm going to go through my sketchbook and color a lot more of sketches to share here on my blog.

 

Niko in his favorite morning spot soaking up the sunlight. It's funny in the evening time when the sun is going down he go to a different room to catch the last few minutes of the warm sunlight. That's one of his favorites things besides doggie treats, rawhide bones, plush animals and carrots.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! May your year be FILLED with love, peace, joy, abundance, strength, favor, success & victory.  I hope all of your dreams come true this year! *Hugs*

Merry Christmas!

 

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!!

Let it snow

Hello! This for no particular project I did awhile back and decided to use it for my Facebook cover. Stay warm.

Hot Chocolate

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I did this illustration for a greeting card. I will be posting more Christmas holiday illustration soon. Thank you for stopping by! :)

Happy November!

Happy Friday! I hope everything is going great with you. For the people on the east coast affected by Sandy my thoughts are with you *hugs* hang in there everything will get better for you.

Since the weather is a lot cooler now and breezy I decided to make some homemade chili the other day it's actually 3 bean turkey chili it was really good too. I found the recipe on Skinnytaste (I love her blog the recipes are great and healthy!). If you would like to try the recipe HERE is the link it's very easy to make I put everything in the slow cooker. Take care and have a wonderful weekend! :)

Everyday Cards Samples

 

 

Hi all! I hope your summer is going great! Here are the samples for the cards I illustrated for the Marian Heath.

Under the Sea

Wow! It's been almost two since I posted anything on my blog. I hope your enjoying the nice, hot summer weather, vegetables and fruit (especially mangoes...my favorite). I wanted to share with you some illustrations and pattern I designed about a year ago and haven't had a chance to post it on my blog.

 

 

 

I'm currently working on a couple projects I will share them in the future. I recently purchased some Caran d'Ache pastels and I have been playing around with them. Here is a a little doodle using the watersoluble pastels.

Little Princess Ballerina

Hey! I hope you had great weekend! I had a great weekend and I didn't do anything exciting but I did get a lot of rest. Here is a little princess ballerina I created and colored it in Adobe Illustrator. Have a fun week!

Horse & doodle

I hope your week is going well (one more day and it's the weekend yay!). I sketched this horse several months ago and decided to color it in Illustrator today and give it a background with flowers

This little girl is a doodle I did yesterday. I colored it with Primacolor Pencils. I'm still playing around with the idea of doing more traditional work. Thank you for stopping by and leaving comments there always appreciated it.

Hello Lion

Working on creating a new blog header and maybe change my blog colors around. Here is a little lion doodle. Have a great weekend!

The Easter Baaany

Since Easter is near I wanted to share with you some of the pages from the board books I illustrated. Here are a couple pages from the Easter BAAAny board book. I will share more from the other books this week. Have a great week!

TDAC: Kraft Contest Entry

 

Hi all! I hope your having a happy Friday! Here is a my entry for the They Draw and Cook Kraft contest. Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas

Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday!!!! Enjoy spending time with family and friends! Thank you so much for visiting and leaving sweet comments!! xx