Featured in another blog!! What are the odds?

Squirrel Creek Creations: Feature of the Day #59: Jewel Rene: Greetings! Nautilus Art Print Today's feature goes to Jewel Rene and her beautiful illustrations. Since she doesn't say much about her...

I've been featured: Creating the Joneses

I feel so loved!  Two of my Hellephant pieces are featured in this article! The author, Erin Kempfert, is very nice and makes some great suggestions about commissioning art.  Check it out!
Creating the Joneses: The Ins and Outs of Commissioning Artists, or, LOO...: It's been a long time since my last update. I know. I'm terrible at keeping up with everything I need to do, so throwing a blog into the mix...

 I finished the ruby throated hummingbird illustration.  I'm going to carry the colors through the other two bird prints in the commission.  

Birds for Kathy's Cottage

These line drawings are for commissioned illustrations for a cottage in Michigan's lower peninsula.  The finished sizes will vary, with the pileated woodpecker being the focal point.

Do you hear wedding bells?

Janee is getting married and ordered this coloring page for the front of her wedding planner.  Her wedding is going to be fantastic!  I know I want to crash it.

Teaser:  It's almost time for the second edition of hellephant coloring pages!  Which hellephant adventures do you want to color?

Northern Spotted Owl Illustration

Here is the finished owl illustration.  I used the same background gradient from nautilus, only in reverse.  A nice flat tree line silhouette helps the owl pop forward in the composition.  

Northern Spotted Owl Pencil Drawing

I saw an article on the redwoods in National Geographic and it featured a lovely spotted owl.  She was so cute I had to sketch her out.