Lords-a-Leapin'!

Four days to go. Are you all getting ready to celebrate this joyous season with as much pomp as this couple? Or maybe you’re planning something a little cozier with your true love?  However you celebrate, a very Merry Christmas to you all!

Snowflakes twirl as pipers pipe
A wedding filled with dance
For twelve days led us to this night
Of Christmastime romance

12 Days art, available for purchase at Fly Sky Pix.

Fiiiiiiiiive Golden Rings

Well, more like one golden ring. But it’s a special one! 8 days to go.

A golden ring on bended knee
So spend forevermore
In blissful union with this love
A fairytale of yore

Enjoy today’s 12 Days art, available for purchase at Fly Sky Pix.

And a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Technically the Twelve days of Christmas don’t start until December 25^th and finish on the 5^th of January, but I’ve always liked to think of them more as a Christmas Countdown in the days leading up to the big day. Aaaaand it allows me to promote more Fly Sky Pix art, just in time to order for Christmas! Twelve days left…let’s all celebrate with a partridge, some turtledoves, French hens and calling birds. Check back in 4 days for the next one.

My good friend Rebecca wrote the poems that accompany the pieces and they’re just so lovely and fit the love story I created so well that I have to share:

Four days of special gifts received
To prove his great affection
Bird songs fill the autumn air
An ode to love's perfection

 

“The 12 Days of Christmas” line is available for purchase at Fly Sky Pix.

Who wants a Hippopotamus for Christmas?

(or, the Fly Sky Pix launch)

 I’m very excited to share a project I’ve been working on for the last year and a half: Fly Sky Pix, "storytelling art with a twist". I was approached by Swave Studios, an industrial design company, and asked to illustrate storytelling art to be printed on canvas. The twist comes from incorporating LED lights and music into the canvas. Of course I jumped at the chance and got to work on three of their creative lines: Decor, Lullaby and Seasonal. I based all of my illustrations on musical pieces and let those inspire me to create the story.

The great news? These 12x12 inch canvases are now available to order from Fly Sky Pix, just in time for the holidays! An owl family or elephant pals are perfect for a nursery or child’s room, a city postcard-inspired canvas is perfect to send long distance to a  loved one, while you can finally get that hippopotamus you’ve always wanted for Christmas for yourself.

Merry (belated) Christmas

It’s been over a month and a half since Christmas, but I thought I should finally get around to posting the Christmas card that Dom and I sent out this year. It features everyone’s favourite puppy Cocoa, Dom in his Habs hat sans logo (I couldn’t bear the thought that my Sens might think that I’ve betrayed them) and myself in what used to be my Harry Potter scarf until I decided to take out the red for the sake of the illustration…and a Christmas surprise! The hippo appeared in some work I did over the summer for some holiday designs based on the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” so I thought he was a good addition to the card as he represents the past year.

This is the mess that was our crafternoon, preparing  the cards before they were sent out. I love stamps! We didn’t really have a plan in mind and my ink pads had dried up so we made a quick trip to Staples hoping to get some red and green ink pads but Staples decided to be very boring and only gave us the option of black. So we got crafty and picked up some colourful permanent markers which allowed us to multicolour the stamps to our hearts’ content! The chips were obviously a must – we had to start preparing our tummies for the onslaught of all that decadent holiday food.

I’ve been extremely busy lately with some very fun and veryvery top secret projects, but hopefully I can still make the time to post something new now and then.  Till then, merry (belated) Christmas and wishing you lots of laughs and love in the New Year.

Work Christmas Card

I’d been doing so well with posting regularly but December is…December. As always, it is way too busy in an enjoyably stressful kind of way that has left me no time for personal artwork, no matter my good intentions. Until today! I was asked to whip up a quick card in Photoshop at work this morning to be sent to our customers. And when I say quick, I mean veryveryvery quick, as our manager was just about out the door to deliver Christmas packages when he realized we didn’t have a card. So here’s the card from the Added Touch team for 2011, designed by me. Merry Christmas!

Happy Halloween

So I’m preeeetty sure that Jane Austen never spent her Halloweens carving pumpkins, and if she did I’m also pretty sure she looked a lot more serene and dainty doing it, but really, where’s the fun in that? Scraping out the pumpkin goo with your hands is the best! I’m a big Halloween geek – I love decorating and crafternooning to make all sorts of spooky decorations and cooking pumpkin soup and eating it out of more hollowed-out pumpkins and putting together my (sometimes very elaborate) costumes. Oh, and listening to the Monster Mash a bazillion times. Usually I spend a lot more time planning my Halloween, but this year it just sort of crept up on us and left us with not very much time to plan anything. But I did manage to throw together this Jane Austen costume using stuff I already had. Yes, I actually own a cropped pink paisley blazer…um…ew. It may offend some people’s fashionista senses and sensibilities but I was pretty happy it was still hanging up in my bag of “maybe I’ll just keep this old stuff for a costume one day” clothes when I was putting together my costume this year.

Have a very happy and spooky Halloween and maybe listen to the Monster Mash once for me.

Happy Tofurkey Day!

This piece is inspired by those construction paper/hand-tracing turkeys we had to make every year in grade school. Do you remember making them? I probably made at least fifty, some covered in feathers and others in macaroni and even more in sequins; when I was feeling very creative, they would be covered in all three! But thanks to my recent foray into veganism, I’ve been wondering “what about the vegetarians?” This is my take on a very vegetarian Thanksgiving crafternoon at school.

Whether you’re eating turkey or tofurkey this weekend, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Happy Valentine's Day

So as a Valentine's Day gift to myself, and in order to fufill last year's New Years resolution (better late than never...), I have decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon and create a blog for myself, with regular updates as to what I'm working on for the school as well as my own personal artwork...at least I hope there will be regular updates...easier said than done.

Enjoy