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Recent Fabriano Quadrato Artist Journal Drawings and the story of how I got this sketchbook

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About two weeks ago I got two brand spanking new journals to draw in! Happy!
The Fabriano Quadrato Artists Journals are 9×9 inchs in size and are no where to be found in North America. I scoured the internet until I located some in the United Kingdom but sadly the company did not ship outside of [...]

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I don’t need convincing that your product is good because I already love it

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Don’t you, as an online content creator, wish you were paid just a little when you mention a product that you use everyday. I think I’ve mentioned Pilot G-tec pens a gazillion times on this blog, with Apple, Faber Castell and Arches following close behind. I’d be a little better off if these companies paid [...]

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The children’s book Every Someday that I illustrated is available for purchase now

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Just before Christmas the children’s book Every Someday written by Amanda Lenker and illustrated by me was self published on Blurb in soft cover, hard cover and hard cover with dust jacket editions. It’s a fantastic little book and your kids will adore it!
On blurb you can preview select parts of how Every Someday reads [...]

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My whimsical artwork is featured on locket sets in the Uncommon Goods Catalog…

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…along with Unusual artwork by Christy Zaragoza and Nature artwork by Holly Ward Bimba. Each set of lockets features five different interchangeable lids.
This was one of the huge secrets I’ve been keeping from you for months until the catalog came out! You can also find the sets of lockets which are handmade by Polarity on [...]

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Thank you Shayla Video

This video is in response to Shayla Maddox’s Video!
In late December 2009 when I began painting Christmas ornaments, Shayla began painting pretty ornaments to. We talked on twitter and decided to exchange ornaments with each other.
Hope we can make this an annual Christmas tradition Shayla!
Go see Shayla’s light reactive paintings in her Etsy Shop or [...]

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The Four Seasons Tree Series is now Featured on a Polarity LOCKET SET

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A little while back I announced that the Sassy Sea Urchin and George the Fish were available on a recycled locket set by Polarity. They are no longer available due to some exciting news which I can’t tell you about… yet.

To take their place I offered Polarity the rights to use the Four Seasons Tree [...]

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Sneak peek at the soon to be published children’s book illustrations and my living room

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Sometimes the creative work overflows into the living room from the studio and onto the floor on top of a carpet my mom hooked in the early seventies. I love lying down or sitting on the floor surrounded by inks, papers, glues and best of a all a children’s story entitled Something & Nothing, propped [...]

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We Are Healthy – Collaborative Children’s Colouring Book

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Yaelfran from Argentina contacted me in late August to ask if I’d be interested in submitting a drawing to the We Are… series of colouring books she produces monthly. Of course I said yes! What artist doesn’t love illustrating for children! And to quote the listing:
I can’t tell you how exited I am about this [...]

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Recycled Magnetic Sea Life LOCKET SET – A Collaboration with Artist Polarity

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A couple of weeks ago Cat AKA Polarity a fantastic jewelry artist on Etsy contacted me to collaborate on a new line of recycled artist lockets she was introducing into her shop. This is the result of that collaboration!

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The economics of happy

First, smile, then roll up your sleeves and begin painting one wall at a time.
Over the last few days I have cleaned, painted, washed, scrubbed until sparkling and sweated it out with my Dad over town in the vacant two bedroom apartment that came up for rent this month. The apartment is beneath my maternal [...]

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The voice of evolution is not processed meat

Sometimes we forget that what we do is only for one person. One person. We write, we podcast, we record. The audience is a sole human being sitting in front of their computer screen. The chance is strong that it will be one person reading what you write, draw or illuminate through blogging.
I remembered that [...]

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7 Urgent Things

Today’s urgencies often mean nothing tomorrow.
(an emergency or a screaming hype might not be important in the long run)

Belonging is akin to feeling held, feeling at peace with whom one is, just as one is.
Exhaustion stems from the urgency to be. Is this similar to traffic?
Twisting onwards, upwards the drain yield beginning.
Half of everything [...]

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Mother Goose is Loose

Title – Mother Goose is Loose
Medium – pen on Canson paper
Size – 8″ square
Artist Statement – One Crow Sorrow
Housed on flickr there exists a larger version of Mother Goose is Loose. Click it.
#4 of 5 – MailArt to Rodrigo

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Learning to Swim – pen drawing

Title – Learning to Swim
Size – 8″ square
Medium – Pilot G-tec C4 pen on Canson Paper
Artists Statement – #3 of Five from the Series entitled The Moral of the Story is sent in MailArt to Rodrigo.

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Whistling while sweeping eggs – pen drawing

Whistling while sweeping eggs is one from the series of five I mailed out to Rodrigo earlier this year.
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Open Mic night at Successful Blog tonight is about ART

Calling all artists to come and join into the conversation this evening at The mic is on and we’re ART crazy!
Liz is a gracious host along with the many other people who come and join in the conversation.
It is fun, educational and new people are always welcome.
I’m tagging Rodrigo, Robert, France, David, Jecklin, Candy and [...]

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The design of an imagined life becoming real – I need to pinch myself daily

I began a design project earlier this month for Scott Wallick. His wife Binita is a court reporter and I am designing and illustrating a logo and business card for her. Thus far our contact has been via email only. We have never met in person nor have we spoke on the phone.
Initially I had [...]

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MailArt-001 is being mailed today

This is the front side of envelope with magical penny and a little tiny dude, who arms are wobbling under the weight of his daydream, sitting in a collapsed chair.

This is the back side of the envelope with cheerful springtime flower.
I am mailing this art stuffed envelope today to Rodrigo.
Here is the sneak peak of [...]

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What do you get when two artists collaborate?

As of this writing, Collaboration NOW has already begun. Rodrigo Pradel and I, Jessica Doyle will be mailing each other an envelope stuffed with art, of our own creation to the other, to further recreate and elaborate upon. We will be using the tools of our choosing, in each, our own respective mediums.
The end result [...]

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