I Love Local Food (and a book blitz!)

A little watercolour I made to help my mom (author Valerie Comer) promote her awesome new novel Raspberries and Vinegar.  You may remember the cover art I did for it earlier.  It's such a great book; a fun Christian Romance with farming, puppies, baby mice (who are, sadly, disgusting and not cute like baby animals should be), and enough good local food to make you hungry.  I'm not just saying I like it because my mom wrote it, it's a great book.

So, what does the illustration have to do with anything?  If you order her book in paperback by the 9th, you get a bunch of awesome freebies, including the book in e-book form, and a printable pdf of my local food painting to hang on your wall :)

You also get:
- Desktop wallpaper's with my cover art
- a video recipe showing how to make Raspberry Vinegar (my favourite summer drink!)
- A 92 minute podcast where Valerie interviews special guests Dr. Ruth Valerio, Melissa K. Noriss, Kathi Macias and 6 others on "Where Food Meets Faith" for them.
- 101 Ways to be a locavore
- 7 Days to Simple: Purify Your Life, an E-book by Melissa K Noriss
- Some samples of other great related books you might enjoy

Buy it here!  Do it by the 9th to get pretty art!

Not Afraid

I've been avoiding posting from my sketchbook as my scanner is old and sad and I'm really bad at taking photos of my art (although I try and try...).  So here you go, an imperfect photo of some watercolour calligraphy practice.

It's a quote by Louisa May Alcott, or so says pinterest.

All Things

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all!

A little Thoreau for you

All good things are Wild and Free - Henry David Thoreau

Lastnighterday

Lastnighterday is probably my favourite of Ria's invented words.  It means anytime in the past.  Quite handy, actually.  Now that she's three, she mostly says everything correctly, but I love the cute little Riaisms that remain.

A fresh start

Hi guys :)  Welcome to my new art blog.  I hadn't been drawing much for a month or two.  I've been feeling like my art just isn't what I want it to be, but I don't quite know yet where it's going.  I need to stop thinking about it and just create!  So the past month I've been working on a new sketchbook.  Here's some handlettering practice for you.  Gotta love Julia!