Picture Bookies

Hello All,

I am now part of a wonderful group of illustrators called

Picture Bookies. Ginger Nielson from Gingerpixel invited me

to be apart of the group. To all the wonderful artist over

at Picture Bookies, thanks for inviting me. I'm honored.

Have a good one everyone.

Presenting... Talluah by Tori Spelling Illustrated by Me!

Okay, here is the surprise that I have been

wanting to share with you. A few people emailed

me with well wishes already. Thanks so very much!

I had the most wonderful pleasure of working

on a fabulous new book with Simon & Schuster

and Tori Spelling! " Presenting... Talluah" will be

out in September 2010.

Tennis Anyone? With Pen and Ink

I did this little spot playing with Corel X. I love it! While I enjoy

working with the software, I still feel there is nothing like good

old pen and ink and watercolor. I plan to get back to doing some soon.

Have a good week everyone!

Happy Belated Valentines's Day!

For all you fabulous and wonderful people. Happy Belated Valentines from me to you.

No More Adrift

Who are these people??? Only more of my extended and growing family.

Stephanie has been a part of my family for over 20 years now. She and

Nick got married a few years ago, but Nick has been in the U.S. Military

for much of their marriage and far away from Stephanie. Stephanie

got the greatest gift for Valentine's Day. Nick came home from his finial

tour and he is home safe and sound and now the two of them can finally start enjoying

married life together. Happy Valentine's Day Nick and Stephanie!

No more Adrift but together once again. God is Awesome!!!

I love you guys sooooo very much and tearfully overjoyed for you.

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

V

Adrift

Happy weekend everyone!

Mud Flap Jack

Mud Flap Jack

Knew where all the local mud holes

where at!

His mama tried to keep him clean

at him often she would scream

"Jack you best come back here

as clean as when you left here!"

Jack had magic sneakers that stayed

clean no matter what he did!

Mud Flap Jack such a special little kid.

he he he he!!

Happy Week to all.

IF's Focused

Prof. Finklestein and his staff of excellent scientist were completely and utterly

blown away at Abby's focused and concentration. Before they knew anything

Abby was levitating above them and playing around with Einstein's theory!!

She was very focused.

Have a wonderful weekend.

V

She is a beautiful and wonderfully talented lady.

I love her for her classy style and creative use of words.

She is a modern day poet.

She is fresh. She is retro. She is style. She is grace.

She is Shell of Swan of Dreamers.

Happy Birthday Sweetie. I wish you much happiness

and all the joy one heart could hold. You are the bomb diggity!

And you know that!!

Hugs

V

Nessa's World( Watercolor Wednesdays)

My childhood was filled with Golden and Peterpan records on a portable record player. I could never find the little yellow inserts that went into the 45's so they wobbled while they played. I loved going to Toyland!!! All I had to do was say the magic words. Haluna, Haluna, fe fi fo to the land of toys I wish to go. And then the man on the record would ask, " Are you there yet???" he he he he! Pixie sticks and other treats, the circus and clowns and fairies! Hours of jacks with my sister Coy and paddle ball contest! Yes and hours of Star Trek, Lost in Space, Ultra Man, Petticoat Junction, The Addams Family, The Monsters, I Love Lucy, Hazel, Top Cat, Bugs Bunny

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, and the list goes on.

Gee those were the days!

Have a good one!

Drum City (sneak Peak)

Hello All,

I have some good news to tell you about. About 6 months ago I had the great pleasure of

illustrating a wonderful children's book written by a talented writer Thea Guidone.

This is Thea's first children's book called, " Drum City". Random House is the

publisher and the book is due out in stores on June 8, 2010. We are both so happy

and proud of how the books has come out. We just got copies of it a couple of

weeks ago. There is some tweaking that has to take place as far as color, but it's beautiful

just the same. I had such fun illustrating this book!!!! It's not all the time you get to

do what you want to do, but the art directors were so willing and so wonderful to

work with they made it easy to be creative and for this I am grateful. I can't wait for you

all to see it! It's just a fun book. I have another surprise coming in a couple of days.

I can't wait to share it with you. I'll keep you posted about "Drum City".

Clumsy Cindy Ceeder

Poor clumsy Cindy Ceeder,

couldn't keep those dainty feet beneath her.

She tripped and fall

and said, "Oh well I think I'll just rest here for a spell.

he he he he!!!

Happy Weekend Peeps!

Happy Birthday Mechelle

About ten years ago my father remarried after the death of my mom. She was only 56 years

young and died of colon cancer. My sister Coy and I wanted our dad to remarry as soon as possible. 6 months after mom's passing dad announced that we wanted to marry

Ms. Earlene Busby. I am proud to say that they have been married for 10 years now and

they love each other very, very much. She has become Mom , mom-in-law, and Grandmamma,

to our families. We didn't just get a mom, but also 3 sisters and 2 brothers.

Which are never ever referred to as step anything. he he he he!!!

It's amazing how we just took to each others.

It's like we have been family all along. It doesn't happen like that for many people, but

somehow and someway this just worked. I am now blessed to have 4 sisters that I LOVE and

Admire and Adore! Each with her own personality and story. This is a collage work that

I did for my beautiful baby sister Mechelle for her 40th birthday. She is in love with it!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful sister Chelle!

The Magic of Count De Mezzo

He didn't want to be prince or president. He didn't even want to be a Count.

He just wanted to share his joy of telling stories with wonderful puppetry.

Count De Mezzo kept the children entertained for hours.

Meet The Three Modern Bears. These little guys where created on canvas

board. I used bits and pieces of scrapbooking papers, clothing tags,buttons

and dollies. Basically anything and everything I could get my hands on.

I love doing stuff like this on a snowy winters day. They are already sold,

but more is on the way! Have a great week everyone

Man Up and Press On

Rodney Pinkney would let absolutely nothing get in his way of asking Miss Tasha Jenkins

to the school dance. Not even the huge volcano of a pimple sitting right by his nose!

Moral of the story. In 2010 let absolutely nothing and nobody keep you from doing

what is in your heart to do. Man up and go for it!!!!! I'm cheering you on he he he he!!

Happy New Year To All

Happy New Year Everyone! Be safe and have good one!

A Nice Christmas Present (Corel Draw 11)

Hello Folks,

My beautiful, kind husband Ray is always wanting to by me something that I really don't want

for Christmas. Yeah I said ! What??

While I appreciate the very kind very kind jester, it can be rather frustrating to me.

Each year I try to help the brother out by telling him,

" Just get me a gift certificate and call it a day!" He sometimes, as Bug Bunny would say, " He just don't git it!" This year I'm gonna have to ambush the brother and do my own shopping. You know people, kinda direct him where he should go. So this is for all you wonderful people who have artist in your life and don't have a clue as to what to give 'em!!

1. Give them a gift certificate to their favorite art store. Like PearlPaint, or Jerry's Artist Supply, or Dick Blick! Yeah that's the ticket!!!

2. Corel as wonderful software for the artist in your life. I actually did this picture with Corel

Painter 11! And no, I ain't bein' paid by the company for this! If it's someone who is into animation purchase this wonderful animation software from Fablevisionlearning.com by artist

Peter H Reynolds. Very inexpensive and Fun! Great for the young artist.

3. Give them as a blank artist journal with some colorful pens. They will love you for it

I promise! So Ra.... I mean people save yourself the headache and try some of these things out

he he he!!

Happy Holidays

My Christmas Wish ( Hatch)

Wishing with all my heart, might and soul that you and yours will have the most blessed and happiest Holiday. And may good things be hatched in the New Year!!!

Here are some of my Holiday wishes for you.

1. That you will grow where you are planted. ( If you don't like where you are stop complaining about it and do something about it!) Stop giving all your power and authority to people who don't care about you. You care about you!!! You are valuable and precious. A promise!!!

2. That you will dream bigger than yourself! ( You can't share your dreams with everybody.

Sometimes you are already battling your own self doubt why bring someone else's negativity into the mix. Remember, you can't put a 18x24 vision in a 3x5 card mind! Get somewhere quite and dream as big as you want. Write it down or draw it out. If you don't have a vision for it you won't know how to handle it when it comes. Feel the joy of it. Feel the

moment and watch what happens! Dreams really do come true he he he!!

3. That you will have all the encouragement and support you need when you need it most. ( Who have you encouraged in the last 30 days? Heck, when was the last time you encouraged You he he he??? When we give even the smallest bit of encouragement to someone we get a bigger return. You get to make someone feel so special and this creates more good energy! Some of you will never ever know how much you have encouraged and supported me. I could just cry thinking about it. Your words have been like medicine to me. Giving me much laughter, healing and comfort. I wish you all the same. Hugs a plenty!

Happy Holidays

Peace

Crunchy

I love the crunchy sound snow makes under foot!