Turkey Time!

Thanksgiving's around the corner. Here's a piece I started out as a coloring page for a children's magazine. It was too cute, so I had to finish it. Titled it: Turkeys in a Barn. These turkeys took about 25 hours to color & detail and were a whole lot of fun to work on!

This image is available for licensing, and in my online greeting card shop as a Thanksgiving card & Thanksgiving dinner invitation. A few of my other tortured turkey cards are also shown below:

All cards (and hundreds more) are available in my GCU store.

I'm busy in the studio into December, working on some great personal & client projects. I'm also excited about the approaching holiday season. The snow's been falling in Alaska (along with the temperature), and it just feels like Christmas! What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

And finally, before I forget: if you have kids and would like to print the coloring page (for personal, at-home use only), please click here.

Frozen

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Frozen".

I'd definitely say this guy is frozen, and it's likely he won't be feeling better any time soon! Luckily, it's not yet cold enough here for me to relate!

I created this piece just last month for a local client. It's the 2nd in a series of ad illustrations on the same theme. You can see the first one here.

Thanks for dropping by today. Have a wonderful weekend!

Autumn's Here!

So it's that time of year again. The wait. No longer have 21 hours of daylight (unfortunately) but don't yet have 21 hours of darkness (or 60 below temps). Seems in Alaska, you sort of skip Halloween. Because, by Halloween, there's snow on the ground & it's too cold to wear only a costume. What's the point of a costume if there's a coat covering it? So you go from Labor Day into Thanksgiving & Christmas. Which is a shame, because I love Halloween!

Nowadays I'm working on some greeting cards, licensing pieces, and a new website. More news coming soon!

A Lion's Pride

So I finally found the time to create a new portfolio piece, which I spent countless hours working on this past week. It's titled "A Lion's Pride" though the little guy's roar is anything but prideful - in fact it's painful and maybe a bit embarrassing. Here's a close up:

This image is 48" x 32" and is available for licensing in that size or smaller. To see my licensing portfolio please visit www.ColdSnapGreetings.com and contact with me with any requests!

I hope my art has cheered up your day. Have a creative week!

Illustration Friday: Magnify

Sherlock Dog needs to magnify his clues or else he might miss them. 

If you've been to a Michael's store recently you may recognize this as one of a set of preschool activity book covers I illustrated last year. Always fun to see your work in Michael's. It was a very fun project!