Seahorse Mural at Sunnyside

WOW!  Look at all these helpers!  The kids did great, just imagine 18

 4-5 year olds with buckets of paint in their little hands, yikes!  It turned out so beautiful, a real underwater spectacular spectacle.

My View

Getting to the next level

Thanks for coming to Storyopolis

The Seahorse Song Book release was really fun!  Sunny introduced us.

Dizzy Swinging Girls

Here are two good reasons I fail to blog and post and draw and call people back and e-mail and and and and....... Just watch.

The Seahorse Song Book!

We self-published the SEAHORSE SONG BOOK!  

We are having a book release May 3rd at the awesome Storyopolis book store in Studio City.

Come by for a free concert at 11am and buy a book/cd, build the hype and help us crack the children's market wide open!   

Books are now available in soft-cover and come with a cd featuring 2 great songs by Melissa Green. www.greencirclemusic.com

  

They turned out great and are $20 a piece, please e-mail me if you'd like to make a purchase.                                  

         

Meanwhile... here is a coloring page to print out for the kiddies.

Mother's Day Tree Dedication Card

This is a wonderful way to celebrate mom!   Click the title and order yours today.  Make both your mother's happy.  (mother nature, and your mom, or hey! how about your grandma too!)

Sunny's mural

An Edible Book Tea

It is just ridiculous how much

FUN this was.  Thanks Susan,

Jacki, Sunny, Charlie and Gidget!

And of course the Studio City

Library for hosting such a fun

and delicious event.

April Fool

Illustration Friday-HOMAGE, Sandra Jorgensen

Sandra Jorgensen was my art teacher at Elmhurst College. I only went there for one year, and she was a big influence on me. When I grew up and realized how much so, I wanted to get back in touch with her. She taught me that art could be what you wanted, she also had great knowledge about art history, and contemporary art and showed me stuff like the Chicago Imagists and taught with such enthusiasm and fun. I could even call her my friend as we both struggled together to make sense of German class, which she signed up for, for fun(?). She even helped bridge the gap between me and my Dad during those difficult early adult stages. She took the time to get to know me, and I think she genuinely liked and believed in me as a young person and an artist. Loooking for her, I found out she had died from pancreas cancer only a few months before....

Looking back I really wish I could of told her how much I appreciated her. Click on the title for a nice article about her and her art.

Illustration Friday- HEAVY

Heavy, WoW! These are two little gouache paintings I did in 2003, before my first baby was born and I was also trying to figure out what was happening with my Mom who has since been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. This is how I felt...everything was SO HEAVY, and I was really trying to hold it all up, and no longer just had to carry myself. It's now 2008, and well, I don't feel that way anymore. I feel lighter, happier and less scared. My Mom is doing well (the right diagnosis is so helpful) and getting the care she needs, she is visiting me right now thanks to my wonderful cousin. My children are growing up and soon I will miss how heavy they feel at times. I must be growing up too. Quite a transition, from the unknown to the known and gaining the strength and power to carry it all.

Illustration Friday- GARDEN

Little Star

I really overworked the paper this time, I like how parts of it worked....still not right though.....i like the blurriness, or softness, but still hard to capture the essence of the mother baby bond.

breast strokes

working my way through this with japanese paper and gouache..... i like the first one the best

Flame Retardant

Forget about tuna fish,
breast milk isn't even safe anymore..... it's true, they have found a huge increase in flame retardants in breast milk and in children over the past 10 years, and mostly in the U.S. Click on the title to find out more...

Illustration Friday- LEAP

"Could someone please open the door for us?!!"

It's been 3 years....

Left Behind

My natural mother had one twin brother, two older sisters and two younger sisters....

Fading

Good Morning Mommy

I get great gooey rasberry kisses every morning from my silly baby.... hard not to laugh, even when I'm dead to the world and it's WAY to early to wake up.
She is taking the place of drawing and coffee drinking before everyone wakes up for the time being, I guess it's best just to laugh and enjoy the raspberries while they are fresh.

Contemplation

Tree People Mother's Day Dedication Image

A couple of designs for Tree People's Mother's Day Dedication Program.

The Drawing Club-Silent Movie Theme

I made it to drawing club! It's been probably a whole year. Time flies when I'm not drawing. The baby goes to sleep pretty good by 6:30pm so I rush out the door and make it home in time for her to wake up again. It was great to see everyone and Bob added movies! So we watched Charlie Chaplin, I actually was more inspired by the film than the model this time.

What's Your Name Again? Again?

Wow! Well, I added text, re-worked the words, and I finished the book.....
I went to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America benefit and I'm going to try and get this out into the world.