There just not enough time in the week to complete a detailed Illustration Friday. This week's theme is "jazz" and my plan is to do this one in clay. The background will be painted with acrylics on illustration board and the foreground will be in clay. I hope, hope, hope to finish it up this weekend. I'll post it when it's complete.

This past week has been a good week. I finished my softie which made me happy. It looks so cute sitting on my desk against my muted blue wall. I received an illustration job that I didn't expect to get (a calendar illustration for a kids magazine that I had initially though I'd be doing every other month. I had finished up September and didn't expect to do another until November but they went ahead and gave me October), a small design job for 3 ads, a catalog/flyer design job, and an offer for a big catalog design project come September (wow---this is a huge run on sentence!!!). And I spoke with a rep this week who gave me great advice and offered to help me build on my style and portfolio. I hope future weeks are as good to me!

While doing my daily peek into other illustrators site (which I do several times a day - it's an addiction) I noticed that one illustrator who I've had bookmarked forever, had a blog. You can see Paula's blog here and her fabulous work here. I love what's up on her home page right now! She uses Painter for some of her work and I had looked into Painter just this week. Seems to be a powerful tool so I think I might buy it.

Becoming An Illustrator: I know it's already March 3rd but my latest entry will probably go up this weekend. I've been a tad busy.

And finally, StudioFriday. This week's theme is "light."


This is my daughter's first watercolor at age 5 months (yep, started her early). She is the light of my life. I really do need to get this framed. It's been propped up on my bookshelf sine she did it. Crayons were introduced last month and although she made some scribbles, she was more interested in examining each color.