Here's a repost of the fairy child. So you can zoom in and see the detail.

Unicorns and mustaches.

I went to an awesome art gallery yesterday. The Rothick Art Haus is on 170 S. Harbor Blvd. in Anaheim. They have a show up about..... yes you guessed it.... Unicorns! I saw a fabulous photo in the O.C. Weekly of a punked out girl with a hummingbird strapped to her forhead. She had tattoos and pink hair, and she was fabulously painted. I loved it so much that I HAD to go see the show in Anaheim. I purchased an awesome sweatshirt there with a "Mustachicorn" on the front. You can see a picture of me wearing it here:

You Yes, the unicorn has a mustache. Oh yeah, baby!

And I drew a picture of a punked out Fairy child, inspired by Glenn Arthur's piece I saw in the O.C. Weekly. See his other work here: http://glennarthurart.com/

Tis The Season to Be Busy!

I've been doing so many odd jobs, I don't know what to do with myself! The best one, though, and has been every year, is singing Christmas Carols. I get to wear a lovely scarlet bonnet, and lipstick, and a fluffy skirt, as I sing to little elves. I have a few photos up on the Christmas Belles Blog--- http://heavenlyvoicesproductions.blogspot.com/ (If this doesn't become a link, just copy and paste into browser.

Over the past month I've also been doing a lot of little drawings of wildflowers for some native plant signs in the Martha Walker garden. The artwork will actually be etched into a black marble like stone--- so I'm very excited to see how these turn out! Here are a couple drawings I did:

New books to be published soon, and new books to be commenced! I'm very excited about this new one, so keep an eye on here, and I'll be letting you all in on the excitement.

A tale of Two Dogs

The title doesn't make sense, but hey....

Here's a drawing I did today for Miss Melissa Haines. Merry Christmas, dear! But I don't think she reads this blog, so if any of my family does, go ahead and keep it a secret. She asked me to do this drawing a while ago, and I finally had some time on my hands.

Art Walk

I went to the Art Walk in Lemert Park, Los Angeles. I had a great time. Listened to the drum circle, and painted the drum circle on some bristol paper with tempra paint. This woman had set up aisles and paints for anyone who wanted to create some art, so I joined in!

All Stones

I'm in a CD exchange group, where one person makes a mixed CD for about 12 other people each month, and mails them out. I've gotten two so far, and it's introduced me to so much new music. Best part is, I know some of them, and most others, I don't know, so it's fun to receive a CD of someone's favorite music, that I've never met. Kind of like reading a story. I can imagine how the person looks and speaks based on the music they've given me.

So my CD is based on stone. I was inspired by a few songs, and ended up finding a lot more that relate to stone and the grave mood that follows it. I think of celtic stories, anger, waiting, loneliness. It should be a nice mix for the moody weather coming up, and I'm hoping it has an element of magic that will make people close their eyes when they listen--- become completely absorbed in the story of each song.

The artwork above is the ink line for the album art. I decided to have fun with it and make a little treasure of a CD. I'll post the finished artwork when it's ready. Cheers!

Progress, my dears!

Wheeze book getting closer, everybody! I've been working on the page layouts with the author, placing everything, adjusting images, and it's finally coming together. The spread above is a sketch of the last two page spread in the book. I can't wait for you all to se the finished product.

I have been working away on the new book. Since it's my second go, I've made smarter choices, and I'm labeling my pages, and drawing them on complete, full pages of paper. No more line down the middle. No more confusion of what text goes with what image. This time it's smooth sailing (for the most part), and a lot of fun!

Ricky (the author) and I are still working out how we are going to get the book out there. Do we go with this company, or the other company. I think, because we're so torn, we might just go with both. It's our first time, and we just want to get the book out there so people can read it. There are so many companies that can help you edit and print; Flutterfrogpublishing.com ...... lulu.com ....... even googling "self publish your children's book" will turn up ideas. I'm so excited that I'm going to stop here and talk about all this another time. Maybe once I have the jewel in my hands, I'll finally feel relieved. I just want this book done, y'all!