Thursday Thingy: The Cherry Tees are ready! (Sweet!)

Look how cute! Please join my friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal in raising money for the make a wish foundation by buying one of my cheery cherry T-shirt designs!  

Thursday Thingy: The Cherry Tees are ready! (Sweet!)

Illustration Friday-MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM

My girls midsummer night dreams are about roller coasters and swimming all by yourself (with floaties)

Paint Pants

Hanging up some old paint pants.  Finally ripped and now too thin to keep the paint from my knees.  Probably had these at least 10 years.  

Creation Station Mural

We love creation station! 

 I got to do this super fun mural inspired by all the cute kids. 

Science Lab Murals

Well...there could definitely be worse jobs!  I am starting on the science lab murals at Carpenter Community Charter thanks to our fantastic science teacher Mrs. Lori Belateche.  First up, the marine sciences.  Then on to the physical sciences and life science.  The last week of school was spent cleaning up and me being up on the ladder and observing (that's a scientific word)  all the kids K-5 coming in to hug the science teacher, see what's up with the chics, guinea pig, turtles, bugs, magnets, snails, and all the cool stuff in there.  Lori read me a letter from a graduating 5th grader that told her how much she helped him learn and pay attention, where as in other classes he couldn't concentrate.  He's going to the science academy next year.  Public school is tough in California.  But our awesome families have made this one work by funding this program, that otherwise would not be here.  PLUS  added benefits is that Me and Sunny and Gidget get to play with the chics all afternoon.

we get locked in afterschool....

our awesome science lab!  Marine mural.....

inside the whale

outside door whale of a tail

Illustration Friday- SHADOW

"I hate this show"

This is the first time I ever colored something in photoshop! 

Spuds.

Getting ready for the SCBWI conference this summer.  Thanks to Denise Doyen and my awesome writer husband Allen Keller, I got my manuscript in for critique just in the nick of time.

Two Little Giraffes

Very rarely do I paint on canvas these days.  Actually I have never even used my mural paints on a canvas.  Today, I MADE myself paint.  No motive, no objective, no job, no computer, and no appointments.   And here's what happened.  Ttwo little giraffe's painted and hung in the girls room.  Fun!

FrisBee!!

BIG SUNDAY MURAL

My friend and neighbor helped create this amazing reading garden for SFIAM in conjunction with Americorps, We Change LA and Big Sunday.  

Mural Review

Well, I'm having trouble updating my website...and the entire murals section is missing.  SO...here are some pics of a few of my favorites.

Baby Jungle Mural

Well, jobs don't get much better than this!  Welcome Baby Zoe, born 5/11/11

check out this article in the STudio City Patch

http://studiocity.patch.com/articles/studio-city-pair-grow-tree-people-street-care-event

Murals in Action

These are great pics, of the murals in action.  Our first Carpenter Charter Elementary School Earth Day fair was really fun, simple and successful.  Million trees LA gave out free shade trees, we exchanged fruit, heal the bay came, recycling, 

tie die, paper making, trading post, battery and 
light bulb recycle.  Go Green Team! 

Diversity

With all the rain, I got it done, probably good... so that I didn't over work the darn thing.  Although.... should I put the names of the fruit in the ground? AND, are the sun rays in the right places? Or is it done.  Someone, stop me. Please.

Illustration Friday- STIR

Despite everyone's warnings,
Mel decided to see what would happen if she did STIR the pot.

Not quite ripe, but getting there...fruit tree mural

Work in progress on the Fruit Tree Mural....

The best part about the mural is that Sunny and I get to have lunch together.

Illustration Friday- SWARM

Beatrice's new fashions were not only cute, but "swarm" too.

Illustration Friday

photosynthesis

Work has begun on the science mural at Carpenter!  Can you guess what it's about?  Not done yet, but I love how it's turning out that I couldn't wait to post it. 

Blank Walls

My friend Mary gave me this card last night.  She is so thoughtful.  It really made me smile to see this blank wall and what we created together.  Thanks Mary!  Click here to see what I'm talking about.
Carpenter Garden