I just finished this up when I saw the theme for Illustration Friday. Perfect timing! Here’s a mermaid with her neighbor friend the octopus! I’ve got a couple of spots and some lettering that goes with this. I’ll post those when they are finished.

It’s Wednesday again and that means it’s time for Woogie Wednesday!! This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodle) pieces. I was out of town last week away from the Woog so we didn’t get to do it then. I’m also contributing this to Illustration Friday’s theme this week: Remember. Remember to involve your children in your work!

Here’s what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
“A yiyon” she says (aka “lion).
I ask her what color it should be an she says orange. “OK, let’s paint it orange.”
She then proceeds to color and paint different pieces. Once assemblage starts, she looses interest in it and moves on to something else but she does check in with me from time to time to see it.

I start having my doubts about picking the light bulb because I have no idea where to put it. Ah, ha! The king of the jungle needs a crown! Perfect! And here’s how it turned out:

I’m cleaning up the studio, again (with a 3 year old, it gets destroyed all over again in a few hours), and thought I’d show you where most of my clay illustration work goes to die. I have several boxes with little bits and pieces. When I finally get a new studio built, I think I’ll do a big collage of all these little bits for the wall. Most people cringe when they find out that I don’t keep all my pieces in tack. I just don’t have the storage to keep them all and a lot of the time I don’t secure each piece to the background so I can move them as needed during photography.

Oh, and I’m going to be bold in making a statement here (since I’ll have to actually keep this personal deadline now!)…on Friday, July 1st I will be launching that new illustrator marketing site I mentioned earlier that will encompass all creative jobs. I’ve got a lot to do but I really want to launch it that day, since that’s my 2 year anniversay for working for myself full time…Living the CREATIVE dream. Stay- tuned!!