New work! Baby animal stacks

Looking for something for a nursery? Or a kids room? These original miniature paintings are available in my etsy store.

Indie Banditas Bazaar!

Buy Handmade this year! Come and check out my art at the Indie Banditas Bazaar on Bainbridge Island. Friday Nov. 27 & Sat the 28 10-5 at the Woodward Middle School on Sportsman Club Road.

Mechanical Owls with Sunflowers PRINT

I have a print available of one of my new paintings. You can buy direct from my website with paypal! Mechanical Owls with Sunflowers Print

Gluten, Soy, Corn & Dairy free

The gluten, soy, corn & dairy free diet is going fairly well. Although I have discovered corn hides in the oddest of foods. Baking powder? Really? Dang. This is difficult. But I am trying to remain inspired and look at it as a challenge. (I am SO craving pizza). I feel so great! I didn't realize how much inflammation the foods were causing. I feel like a different person! My blood pressure is much lower now (was 140 over something when I first went to naturopath now it is 110 over 72). I am not experiencing as much pain and even my headaches are much better! Now if I can just avoid that pizza...

Steampunk inspired clockwork Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland painting. This mixed media original is 4x6. You can find it in my etsy store

Gluten free & Hypothyroid

Well after years of expensive tests and stupidity with western docs I finally gave up and went to a Naturopath. I haven't felt this good since I was in college. If ever. I can't recommend Dr. Molly Force in Port Townsend highly enough. She has given me my life back. Turns out for years I have had hypothyroid and am super allergic to gluten. For years I asked to have my thyroid tested and thought it had been...the doctor made a mistake. I sort of knew about the gluten...I have tried in the past to go gluten free and or cut down on it. But now I have to go completely gluten free. I am also allergic to soy, dairy, corn, almonds, sesame,beef and peas. Combine that with my anti-inflammatory diet that rules out a lot of food. I usually cook from scratch thank goodness so that makes things easier.

Just listed an upcycled scrabble tile pendant with a print of my artwork whale on a wave on etsy

Blackberries & cookbook

Went blackberry picking this weekend. Picked more than enough to make some fresh blackberry ice cream. I make a yummy mix of yogurt/ice cream/sorbet. Turns out fab. Now to write down the exact recipe! I am working on my cookbook this week. I think it is going to end up being more than one. Today I am writing down recipes...not easy when I don't use exact measurements. Soon I will be testing the recipes. Fun!

Cap Mushroom

Finished another collaboration with Denise Weir. This cap mushroom is available in 9 colors on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life.

Check out my newest creative adventure at pay it forward art.

Process of making a 3D character-OWL

I just finished making this steampunk owl with my friend Denise Weir. It is available for sale on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life. Here is our process on this particular piece.

This character started with a fine art painting of mine:


Then I made a drawing with a side view for Denise to work from:


Denise sculpted in Maya to create this little fellow:


And then once the pieces were imported into Second Life I finished building the character in world and added hand painted textures. You can see that along the process the eyes changed and his personality changed a little bit:

Arbor with Morning Glories

Another collaboration with Denise Weir. This rustic steampunk arbor features sculpted morning glories. It is available on my sim Axis Mundi in second life.

Sunflower

I just finished this sunflower I made with Denise Weir. It will be available soon on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life.

Follow me on Twitter

You can now follow me on twitter

ScribbleCast 16 Kingfisher

Scribblecast 16 Kingfisher is up! You can find my last three ScribbleCast episodes on the right side of my blog or you can help me out by going to iTunes and subscribing. Just search for ScribbleCast.

Episode 16 features baby robins, fledgling wrens, hummingbird & kingfisher footage, plus I paint a mixed media piece with a kingfisher.

Flowers in Second Life

I have been busy working with my friend Denise Weir to make flowers and mushrooms in the game Second Life. She is doing the 3D modeling in Maya and I am doing the texturing and some of the in world building.

Vegetable Tags

Now you can get my art on these cute veggie tags. I have sets in my ebay shop and etsy shop (see the right side of my blog for links). There are all sorts of veggies available radish, peas, lettuce, carrot, onion, zucchini, eggplant, cucumber, squash, asparagus, pepper, tomato and corn. I will have more varieties available soon including herbs!

Thin Line

Have you ever noticed that thin white line at the edge of horizon on a body of water? Some people just don't seem to see the line. Some days I really don't feel like other people. For me? The line is obvious. There it is. There it is again. It's right there! Sometimes I feel like I am on the other side of that line watching other people who can't see me over there.

Sequim organic vegetables

My veg for the week. From Nash and Sunny Farm in Sequim.

More Magic: the Gathering Artist Proofs

I just posted my most recent Scribblcast where you can watch me do an original work of art on the back of six artist proofs from the collectable card game Magic: the Gathering. The proofs are up for auction on ebay with no reserve.

Check out the ebay auction here.



Watch me paint the proofs here..