The Magic Hen!

There is an excellent story behind this picture, really. It involves a magic hen and a dog and...oh, you're not listening anyway. Oh well. This was a painting specifically commissioned by a client off of craigslist. She actually gave me the job because she liked what she saw on this blog! This blog! Right here! Tell your friends, kids! (and no, the client was not my mom. Although I am working on a piece for her, too.)

Honestly...thank you all *so much* for the support!

The Spaghetti Fairy

Another idea for a children's book...although it might keep kids from eating their dinners rather than encouraging them as one would hope. Oh well.

Tortoise's Revenge

Fables are for suckas.

The Pond Princess

This is a little idea I'm bouncing around for a children's book. Imagine a prince finding his supposed damsel in distress just to realize that she wasn't drowning, just playing with the fishes. And I thought that mini-pony kinda rocked, too.

Whee!

Remember that feeling as a kid, when you were jumping on the trampoline and you'd stomped and stomped until you'd gotten so high that for the briefest of moments---the moment between your rapid ascent and the inevitably just as rapid fall---that time seemed to stop, the birds would fall silent, and the air became as clear and fresh and still, save for the breezes that would tease your tangled kid hair into black, red, brown, sun-bleached blond crowns? Remember?

If you didn't have a trampoline as a kid, I'm sorry. It was pretty cool.

ATTACK

Looks like he woke up just in time.

Alice

So I'm trying my hand at digital coloring...it's a learning process at best. In the meantime, Happy New Year! Here's to new ventures and happy minds!

An homage...

..to two semesters of failed Hawaiian dance. Kupaianaha!!

My Team, Your Team

So the game is "My Team, Your Team" and the premise is this: You draw a superhero with awesome superpowers. The world rejoices. Your opponent then creates a superhero with even more awesome superpowers to defeat yours. And so on. Here is a brilliant episode of this awesome game played by yours truly, my sister Michelle and her superhero awesome kid Emily! (age 6!) Explanations below...





1. Superfat man (to sit on his enemies!)
2. Mista Muscle (Muscle weighs more than fat!)
3. Lockwoman (to keep Mista Muscle out of the gym!)
4. Cap'n Runinplace (who needs a gym to exercise?)
5. Super Cryr (preventing exercise at home since birth!)
6. Miss Lullaby (to sing villains to sleep!)
7. Wrong Note Rita (who can sleep to THAT?)
8. Ms. Smack'emintheface (this was Emily's suggestion, Michelle's drawing. Brilliant!!!)
9. Mr. Brickman (because, according to Emily, who slaps a brick?)
10. Third Little Pig ('cause the house gots to git built.)
11. Da Butcher (started as a grandma, ended up a very hairy Italian)
12. SUPERCOWAFRAG (no one butchers the Supercow!!)

And of course, no one beats a Supercowafrag, so Emily was the winner! Woohoo!

(For another version of this by professionals, check out "The Superest" link on the sidebar...nice, but Emily would take 'em all down for sure. Did I mention this kid is an artistic prodigy? She is.)