save the date

 

So, this is what I've been up to lately.

My dear friends Layne and Mark are getting

married soon, and I had the privilege of

designing their "save the date" postcards!

Scroll down to catch a glimpse of the process.

 

 

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ryan preaches

 

 

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the remains of a lunch

This here is the remains of a lunch I had downtown

at Bruegger's Bagel last time I had jury duty. Do

you see the shadow bird emerging from the paper

wrappings? The winter sun was so bright pouring in

through the windows that it cast fabulous shadows.

 

 

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Sheralee

coffee to go

thrift store porch

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back to the peafowl

As I mentioned earlier, the monastery I went

to earlier this month had a bevy of peafowl.

Or perhaps it was a muster, an ostentation

or a pride of peafowl. The babies are referred to

as peachicks. Isn't that cute? And the males

enjoy a harem of peahens, in case you were wondering.

A group of the males is sometimes referred to as

a pulchritude. Who came up with that word?!?

Anyway, Steve saw them lining up in the evening

in pecking order to fly high (like 100 feet up!)

into the pecan trees. They were sitting up there

when I woke up the next morning. I've never seen

peacocks in a tree before, and it was pretty fabulous.

 

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at the monastery

I spent last weekend at the Holy Trinity Monastery

in St. David, Az. This crucifix was in my room.

 

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eric cuts his hair

My husband has extremely curly hair,

which he entrusts to no one.

Not even, quite, to himself.

But he'll have to do.

 

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pomegranate carcas

My friend Emily gave us a gigantic pomegranate.

The kids happily devoured it this afternoon, leaving

behind this exoskeleton and a whole lot of juice!

 

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serger

I've been enjoying my serger a lot

lately. I've only recently learned how

to get good, even stitches out of it --

the machine requires a great deal

of manual adjustment to set all the

tensions correctly. There's something

beautiful about the tactile, mechanical

nature of the thing, though.

 

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paper hat boy

basketball boy

meet the muffins

cartoon class: donuts

Ashton and I took a parent-kid cartooning class

a few weeks ago during rodeo break. I've been 

either sick or busy or taking care of people who

are sick or busy since then, so this is the first I've

managed to post about it! Anyway, we worked on

complete cartoon strips and then moved on to just

making up little characters, which was by far the

more fun. Ashton has great ideas for characters

and is always designing them. This clip is pretty self-

explanatory. The tiny donut on top of the big donut

is, of course, the baby. There is always a baby 
(really -- there always is).

say, 'aaaah!'

mischievous hospital screen

... A development of this previous post.

physical therapy waiting room

I kinda feel like this screen should have eyes.

It looks like it could be a very mischievous character.

raymond

little guy

Since the sinus infection, I get a nasty headache 

whenever I force my eyes to focus on something up-close. 

So there hasn't been a lot of drawing lately. 

But I couldn't let this one pass me by.