butterflies!

skirt - Wet Seal, when Wet Seal had tons of awesome
print designs and cute skirts...

My city has this awesome place that I love to go, with a great, huge greenhouse and all kinds of tropical plants (and carnivorous plants, and cacti, and seasonal plants, and...).  In early spring, they bring in all sorts of butterflies and let them loose in the tropical greenhouse.  It's wonderful to roam around in the warm, humid greenhouse-world and spot all kinds of flitting butterflies.  Everyone is especially always after the blue morpho butterfly.  I've gotten a couple shots of them in years past; this year's best was the bluish blur you see in this sketch (the other butterflies are also from photos I took).  I happened to be taking pictures of another resting butterfly when the blue one flitted by, and my camera snapped the picture just as it was in the middle of the screen.  What timing!

Also, please enjoy two more new-old posts featuring this skirt.  One of them features a small commercial.  Have fun!

thanksgiving dreams

I am a fickle lass.  I couldn't bring myself to post more plain old black and white sketches—it's so booooring!  I need colour.  So I did my best to colour these all fast-fast.

So, belatedly, Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrated it!  I hope you had lots of yummy food and a pleasant break from the normal routines!

my latest book

This was drawn on the occasion of picking up my complimentary copies of the latest book I'd illustrated.  (only, actually I'd illustrated another book right after it, but those were still being printed.  Man, I can still remember the crazy-busy of the weeks before...)

By the way [commercial follows]: this book (along with others I've illustrated) is available through Amazon and the authors' website. If you see me regularly in person, I've got copies to sell as well.  And you can ask for it at fine bookstores everywhere! (...I think!) [commercial—the end]

lovely patterns

flowers and stripes