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On the road to Happiness – My Highlights Experience
For years I’ve wanted to attend a Highlights Foundation retreat, but life just got in the way. I even scheduled one and had to cancel due to work. My friends kept telling me you have to go! This time I was determined to get there! I saw a posting for one called…
Hawaii Draw and Drone
Recently my husband and I ventured to Hawaii to Draw and Drone. While John was gathering footage for his drone business, I “Urban Sketched” my way across the island of Kauai and Oahu. I have a tendency to be very tight with my illustration, so I took this opportunity…
Bunny Daze enters the Sketchbook Project
My dear friend Kathryn gave me a sketchbook a couple months back for “The Sketchbook Project – A Global Art Project.” I decided to fill my sketchbook with original Bunny Daze watercolor cartoons from years past. The cartoons are in the original format before they had…
Garden Illustration
Now that Christmas is over I’m excited to share a project that I worked on recently. This was a gift from a daughter to her mum, for the holidays. Her mum moved to the states from Australia and missed her garden. I took 32 source photos and composited a couple of…
CiN at ArtCon13
This year I participated in ArtCon13, also known as Art Conspiracy. I had participated years ago at ArtCon1 and ArtCon2. I would get super nervous about having to paint a complete painting in only one day. My good friend Jayme convinced me to put my name in this year….
My First InkTober Experience
What is InkTober your ask… This October was the first time that I participated in the InkTober Challenge. For those of you not familiar with the challenge, it was originally created by Illustrator Jake Parker – a very talented illustrator and teacher. The challenge…
Time lapse video of creating “Boris Crumb and his Big Bass Drum”
Do you ever wonder where illustrators get their ideas? I do, and I’m an illustrator! I’m fascinated when an idea for a story comes through me and onto the page. I thought it would be fun to share this time lapse video with you of one of my recent illustrations. You…
New Coloring & Picture Book
Muffet Frische & Cindy Rodella-Purdy announce the release of their first ALL-IN-ONE Coloring Book and Picture Book: There’s A Bug In My Rug! FRESH OFF THE PRESSES AND NOW RELEASED: THERE’S A BUG IN MY RUG! UGH! There’s a bug in my rug! Where did this…
Sketching at the Kimbell
Had great fun sketching at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth yesterday with my friends and fellow North Texas Urban Sketchers. We also had a guest architectural illustrator, sketcher, and well known instructor Stephanie Bower from Seattle. After working outside on…
How to get a “Head” Illustrating Characters
Children’s book illustration has a number of challenges that most people probably never think about. I love the challenges that come with this type of project, like developing characters, how they react, and crafting their environments to tell the story that the…
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