Love You Owl - Stamp Set

Love You Owl

This is my fourteenth owl illustration for Technique Tuesday.  His eyes are goofy.  I know. He's targeting you with his eyes for lloovvee. Ha!

I have two owls in the queue, one for March and one for April.  The March owl is holding a stuffed rabbit and he's a baby. Eek, I'm excited to share that one. I have a pen & ink drawing of the April owl idea on Instagram. That one is pretty normal but should be fun to color.

We made a bunch of projects last Tuesday with the new release. My friend Karen and I used this little cutie. There's a stamp set called You Aren't Normal that I think is perfect for all the things you REALLY want to say in a card! Karen used those sentiments on her card.

Love You Owl and You Aren't Normal Stamp Set

Frederick & Fiona Fox - Fox Stamp Set

Frederick & Fiona Fox

Introducing my fox illustrations! I had a bunch of little fox sketches in my art book that were strong contenders for the stamp set but we finally settled on these two guys.

Technique Tuesday is offering Frederick and Fiona as a 4" x 6" stamp set! I'm feel lucky to be able to design for such a great company. Well, I'm lucky to be able to illustrate for a living!

Also, Frederick & Fiona have a super cute and clever little biography you can read here.

ORGANIZE YOUR ART SUPPLIES



The old way...



The new way!

I used to have a green and black bag (top) that held all of my quick supplies.  It was one of my favorite things and I will still use it for traveling. I packed it full of all different supplied I might need.  It started to get messy, full and inconvenient.  I just wasn't using everything that I stuffed in there. I feel like if things are messy looking then my brain must be messy.  Silly, I know! So now I use this white organizer that swivels and has little drawers and it looks clean and organized.  Like my brain, right? HA! Not totally sure if this is going to work.  There might not be enough space.....we will see! 

Goofy post I know.  I love organizing.  One of my favorite ways to procrastinate doing something I'm not sure how to do.  Like my next painting.  I'm going to start "Big Balls" today.  Wish me luck!

RANDOM NEWS

 The art bag on the lazy susan above is my all time favorite art supply organizer.  I love anything that organizes.  I will reorganize things that don't need reorganization just to put off something I'm nervous to do.

 Another goofy button/badge idea for the site.  TV's and Art In Flight don't really go together.

This one seems boring.  It does have an airplane but.....

COOL CRAFT SITE!

I found the link to the online craft supply store that sells the bird punch. The green butterfly punch on the front page is similar to the bird one. Really nice products! I LOVE the butterfly punch, they didn't have that one at Craft Warehouse (Hillsboro, Oregon) where I purchased the bird. Hmmmm I may have to splurge. :)

The site: http://www.mcgillinc.com/