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Visions of Sugar Plums

We haven’t seen any real snowflakes at our house yet. But I have been in the holiday spirit because I have been working on pictures inspired by the Nutcracker Ballet. My mini sketches that I paint every morning have been characters from the famous ballet. I also have been working on a picture book idea […]

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Falling Forward

Last week I took the boogie boards, beach chairs and umbrella out of my car and put them in the garage for winter storage. I even vacuumed the half ton of sand that we progressively brought home from the beach this summer. Summer is over, for real. Thankfully, Fall is so dang beautiful here in New

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Love Bird

For the past few years I have been making custom Valentines for my children. This year they are both in Middle School. I don’t know if they are going to want to give them out to their classmates. But I wanted to keep up the tradition anyways. Here is what I came up with for

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Bird Count

The bird thing started this past winter. I had been doing most of my illustration digitally using a stylus and tablet for the past few years and before that my main medium was brush and acrylic paint on canvas. Some time in late February I decided to try something new and I started drawing with

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