Fastpitch Power

This news is a bit old now, but I just realized I never blogged about it. After about an eight month struggle trying to teach myself Wordpress development, I've built my fourth website!

Fastpitch Power is a personal project dedicated to my not-so-secret second career: windmill pitching instruction. It may not be the best example of my artistic sensibilities, but it's been a lot of fun so far (despite also being extraordinarily difficult). It's kind of scary how much time I've been spending on the development end of things lately.

Skin sessions

Twice in the same month? Wow!

It's been too long. Obviously, my 10 minute figures need to catch up to my 10 minute portraits.

Drink and draw pt. 2!

It's been much too long since I've posted and even longer since I've been to a drink and draw. We had some lovely models this time!

Illustration West

I was just informed that this still version of one of my previously posted animations got accepted into Illustration West! Good start to the year.

It's most definitely December

More than usual, I've fallen victim to hectic December-ness this year. I need an extra day in every week, and an extra week on top of that, at least.

Here are some holiday pieces I did for unvelope.com:

The way things are going, I'll probably see you in 2012 :)

Drink & Draw!

New blog layout! It needs a snazzy header. I'll get around to that eventually.

I was THRILLED to find a local figure drawing opportunity in my slightly-more-humble-than-NYC new town. I went to a drink and draw in Bethlehem, and got some much needed sketching in (last time I did figure drawing was at Dr. Sketchy 2 years ago... oops).  Not exactly the burlesque dancing models in bombastic costumes that Dr. Sketchy can boast, but drawing is drawing, and I met some cool people!

I was sure I'd be rusty, but we only did 10 minute poses the whole night, and considering that this was the last 10 minute pose in my book (below)...

...I'm actually surprised and pleased with how confidently I attacked the ones above (though I'm certain if we'd done an hour long pose I'd have noodled it to death).

TOTORO PUMPKIN!

With a little totoro:

With Andrew's Frankenpumpkin:

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I've been playing with photo collage illustrations lately. It's fun! It's especially fun when I'm able to piece together what I need from readily available items and set up the photos myself. The one below kicked off a series of Breast Cancer Awareness cards for unvelope.com. Please check them out and send some to the women in your life. All the BCA cards are free.

Here is a still from the aforementioned piece. It doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense out of context, so take a look at the full card via the link below the image (and the others in the category as well!):

View the card

Young Artists for St. Jude

Earlier this month I donated a painting to Young Artists for St. Jude, an art auction benefitting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I'm very proud to say it was accepted! The theme for the auction is "The Beauty of Life." I submitted this watercolor I did back in 2008:

I hope it wins a helpful bid for a great cause. If you're interested in attending the event, details are on the site linked above.

I'm in love

Another inspiring morning courtesy of Design*Sponge (resulting in me wasting time looking at pretty things instead of being productive). I was thus introduced to the work of Lee May Foster-Wilson, creator of the adorableness pictured below:

But what REALLY has my heart fluttering is her jewelry! For someone who enjoys every aspect of shopping and dressing up, I'm terrible at accessorizing, and I have an especially difficult time finding jewelry I like. I usually end up wearing very little because nothing I own ever seems quite right, and when attempting to shop for jewelry I typically feel wishy washy at best and end up leaving it all behind. These lockets, however... how am I supposed to pick just one?!

I couldn't even decide which ones I wanted to use as samples in this post!

In other news, the humidity INSIDE my apartment was 85% this morning. As Snoopy might say, BLEAH.

More recent work

Here are a few watercolors I've done for Unvelope recently:

This piece was pretty experimental, but I like the way it came out:

I thought moving would assuage my crickets-in-the-studio problem. No such luck! The old ones were huge, but at least they were quiet. The new ones won't shut up. What is it with me and crickets?!

Sketchbook

From my head:

From the Sartorialist:

Some girl who was practicing a dance routine at the gym: