At the beginning of this year I made a promise to myself to work as illustrator and improve my craft. I made a commitment to up my game wi...

A few weeks ago I started the online course offered by Make It In Design called Summer School. It's a trend and inspiration brief s...

I have been spending my weekends and evenings sketching and painting since the New Year.  Seeing yet another year pass where I didn't ...

In keeping with my no short-cut theme, I have been working hard on building a visual vocabulary in my sketchbook.  I've ordered a few r...

I know this is such a late conference review - like a month late.  I have been traveling, working on our upcoming local conference and worki...

I thought I'd share a little behind the scenes of what goes into my illustrations.  Everything starts as a sketch, usually a pretty sma...

New piece I worked up today.  4 color blockprint.  Liking this new stuff.  I'll show more of the process later this weekend - I took ph...

 Equipment needed for the best smelling laundry ever: 1. clothesline 2. clothespins 3. gentle breeze (use country air for best results) 4. ...

One of the topics covered in the ecourse I recently took was using print-on-demand companies to sell your image on different products.  I h...

Hmm, my life often resembles a circus.  This was a fun piece to whip up over the weekend. A little looser and primitive in style than I usu...

I had it in mind since August to play around with printing in two colors for a bit of a retro feel to my work.  I finally sat myself down to...

Or maybe the title of this post should be, "Mind your basic design principles, young padawan." Okay, that's probably something...

Another one from the Humblearts vault.  I really love this piece. I created it as an example for an illustration with a poem a few years ...

Okay, this blog post is for me. Sometimes I need to give myself a little advice. Maybe it will be helpful to someone else, so here it is: ...

Looks like there might be some layoffs in Santa's workshop this year! Check out Illustration Friday to see the rest of this week'...

Pulled from the Humblearts archives.  Hmm, I may have to work on some more lettering, that was fun stuff. Run jack run! Need to work o...

Brown or black ink?  Bright colors or muted?  Let me know what you think!

Nothing like the excitement of a new project to get my creativity rolling.  I love the beginning of projects, when all possibilities are op...