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

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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School of Fish Illustration

Just swimming in the sea…
School of Fish was created in late October 2009 with Windsor and Newton watercolour, Prismacolor Verithin coloured pencils, Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (india ink) and Pilot Hi-tec C pens on Arches watercolour paper. All materials used are archival.

They are the Sultry Seahorse’s posse!

This original artwork measures 8×10 inches (20,5cm by [...]

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The Sultry Seahorse Illustration

UPDATE – the original has sold. Limited Edition archival prints in 8.5×11 inch paper are available now in the shop.
The Sultry Seahorse was created with Windsor and Newton watercolour, Prismacolor Verithin coloured pencils, Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (india ink) and Pilot Hi-tec C pens on Arches watercolour paper.

This original artwork measures 8.5×10 inches (21,5cm [...]

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

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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Absinthe 99 or playing with the green fairy that was 2004

In 2004 during an intensive year of college in British Columbia we were asked to illustrate a poster in an older illustrative style with hand drawn letters. Absinthe 99 is the result of that assignment.
That year of college was one of the most brutal and rewarding times of my life. I had applied and was [...]

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Set it Free – New Illustration, Giveaway and a Free Print Your Own PDF Download

Comments are now closed…
I’ll be announcing the winner on Tuesday! xoxo
To enter this giveaway, simply tell me what you want set free
To grab the free download, navigate this way
To win the prize, be the lucky one drawn
Thanks!
Oh… and the prize… number 1/40 limited edition 11×14 inch print of Set It Free valued at $42. It [...]

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Just Imagine touching the Intangible

You can’t say that you don’t crave escape from the every day, the mundane, the mediocre lifestyle that is your life (at times). We all get those moments where we want to plunge into another reality, someone else’s life perhaps, another world where things make sense and you are not left wondering why; things are [...]

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The three little kittens they lost their mittens

This is almost vintage Jessica Doyle. I completed this illustration in 1995. It was drawn in pencil, painted with watercolour and highlighted with both ink and coloured pencil on Arches watercolour paper.
The original measures 12 by 12 inches / 30,5cm by 30,5cm
Three little kittens they lost their mittens, and they began to cry,
“Oh mother dear, [...]

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Soft. Point. Float. (Series of Three Illustrations)

Soft

Point

Float

All were created using Pilot pens, Faber Castel India Ink and Prismacolour coloured pencils on Strathmore petaled fine art paper.
Size – 8×8 inches / 20,3cm by 20,3cm
The original illustrations are for sale. Within the individual listings you can see close-ups of each illustration.
Soft is here.
Point is here.
Float is here.
Hope you like them!

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Star of the East – custom design work

In September, Esther and Estalla from Turkey of Star of the East contacted me about doing a business card for them featuring the Sassy Sea Urchin illustration of mine.

And I agreed. Their jewelry is whimsically detailed and my illustrations seemed to jive well with their beautiful style.

I began working on the design initially using the [...]

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Baby Shower or an Elephant Taking a Bath

Can you believe I illustrated this little cutie in the year 2000 and under my married name of Bostwick? Hence, it is signed with a tiny little JB 2000 rather than a JD 2000 as I am divorced. Take a closer look at it’s right hind leg.
I recently added Baby Shower to the prints section [...]

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Fall Tree of the Four Seasons Series

It’s almost that time of year where the apples ripen, the leaves turn yellow, crimson and amber in colour and thus fall to the ground.
Fall Tree is the last in the Four Seasons series to be introduced on my blog. I drew her with Faber Castell Pitt artist pens, Micron pen and painted her with [...]

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Amelia (Avocado Edition)

Meet Sunshine’s earthy sister!

Both Sunshine and Avocado made the front page of Etsy. Thank you
I created the Amelia series from an original gouache and india ink painting on red paper. I removed the background digitally and coloured her using Adobe Photoshop.
There is one other sister and her name is Blueberry.

The original painting is [...]

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Radiant Melana – NEW Illustration

Melana was created with sepia hued India ink, Prismacolor Verithin lightfast coloured pencils and Windsor & Newton Watercolour on heavy gorgeously textured cream coloured card stock. She measures 5×7 inches (12,7cm by 17,8cm). The original illustration is for sale at $115 and prints are available for purchase at $15.
Matting is available here. Simply specify in [...]

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The Wise Barnacle and a Brief Synopsis on How he Came to be an Older Brother

This is the Sassy Sea Urchin’s Brother, whom is much the wiser and older than she.
Mr. Wise began as an archival ink drawing, rendered with micron 005 nib pen; the smallest nib one can buy. I scanned him in at an obscenely high resolution and began colouring in Adobe Photoshop. Colouring sounds so child-like and [...]

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In the Beginnings of Busyness and Exhibits

When it rains it storms so they say. It seems all at once I had run out of packaging cardboard and perhaps that is why my sales slowed this week. I believe you emit those things via energy fields to the world. I am now prepared again. Bring it on Baby! I salvage excess clean [...]

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Day Dreams

Deep guttural industrial clanks and crashes escape the fog of night traveling upwards into the residential neighborhood where I reside, from the shipyard, refinery and paper mill lining the coast.

The fog is thick.
It is near impossible to see across the street at night. The only light that pierces is those yellow and orange ones that [...]

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Sassy Sea Urchin – Illustration

I drew this drawing using a Micron 005 nib pen and later digitally colored it in Adobe Photoshop.
The Sassy Sea Urchin is listed in the shop. You can see the Sassy’s brother and the original ink drawings here.

Beachy Beachy Beach!

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Mushrooms (Pastel Edition)

This is a set of four 5×7 mushroom illustrations I drew with Micron 005 nib pen and later added the backgrounds digitally in Photoshop. These little guys made the front page of Etsy along with their darker cousins the Earth Edition.
The Pastel Edition is available in the shops.
Both 5×7 inch sets are available in mini [...]

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Do You Love Me?

She says "Do you love me?" as she grabs his curled foot…
Wow I illustrated this 7 years ago! It is also one of the few illustrations that bear my married name as I am divorced now. It is signed with a tiny tiny "JB 2001" down on the bottom right rather than a "JD 2001". [...]

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