A Monday in Two Parts

MONDAY: PART ONE
A Special Gift​ by Z. Rosti, illustrated by Jen Walls.  Available on Amazon.

​Alrighty all you fans of furry sweetness!  Meet Bailey, a cocker spaniel with a taste for adventure This little book just launched last week.  It is a great for early readers or to read aloud to your sweeties before bed. (I miss having sweeties to read to at night.) I am quite tickled to have been asked to illustrate it.  There is nothing quite like painting a character all the way through a story to make you fall in love.  And I do love this sweet pooch

Thank you, Sarah M., for bringing me in on the project and for trusting me with the task of bringing Bailey to life. :)  

Though I've never actually met the author, Z. Rosti, I can feel her love of animals shining through this delightful tale.  And through her donation of all proceeds from the sale of this book to the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation.

MONDAY: PART TWO
"The Four Faceted Face" - mixed media on paper, each 15" by 11".  Inquiries.

Now here is an intriguing project  - interpret a figure (or face) in four different ways. I hadn't a clue where to begin.  When in doubt, just paint, right?  And so there emerged a face with a florescent underpainting to get me started.  For the next three, I created a stencil (really, truly just to buy time while I figured out what to do next!  Making stencils is like meditation.) and put down some gouache and watercolor just to create the basic shapes.  Paint, pen and ink and collage followed.

This could become a workshop in the fall, as my brain noodles and muses and ponders hundreds of ways to interpret faces in mixed media.

But let's begin our week by channeling our inner Bailey....or Lino, in this case, who runs like the wind through the forest of the Alps.