Little silly sketches

hares with cactus legs


pinecone antlers


a pigeon in pajamas

A beastly thing..

My friend Aaron asked me to make something for his girlfriend's birthday. He asked her to pick an animal off the Annelids CD list, but she couldn't decide and picked five.

Sooo what happened? Oh, this.



15x15", direct application of fiber reactive dye on canvas, lots and lots of freemotion embroidery!


the original idea sketch.. and how it looked after I painted on the dye.

Some sketchbook pages.

A local bookstore was selling a 12x12 sketchbook filled with awesome paper (possibly meant for scrapbooking?) for FIVE DOLLARS. It's the hugest I've ever had, and I keep compartmentalizing the pages to make smaller areas - I put boxes around everything and fill in extra space with repetitive drawing, and then go back later to color it in with watercolors, colored pencil, ink, etc. Here are a few pages.








(The grids on each page are the rubrics I use to keep track of how many answers I get right on Jeopardy!)

OH HEY, HI. hi. yes. this.

Two CD cases



Laser snail!



Luna moth!