What I'm Working On Right Now (Paula)

These images are a part of a greeting card I just finished up for a client. I had originally planned to do the art in a pen & ink style (second image), but did an entire version in a more rendered style (first image. Hey, I just noticed the piping around the cake bottom looks like a little like hot dog links! Not good). I opted for the pen & ink style in the end, though I like the first one as well. It was other parts of the image (not shown) that tipped it towards the latter style. Here's hoping the client is happy. : )

What I'm working on at the moment

At the moment I'm painting final illustrations for a book I'm illustrating. Can't show you much at this time, but here's a sneak peak of one of the sketches. Looks happy, doesn't he?

Paula On "Birds"

I'm presently working on an emergent reading book which has a few birds in it. The two birds above are a segment pulled from a two-page spread. They aren't main characters here, but placed in the spread to add a little interest. For this particular job, I'm working in pencil for the line work, which is giving it a softer affect.

Bird

If you know my work you have probably noticed that there's a bird in almost all of my illustrations. I used to draw a lot of characters with birds on their heads. I have no idea why these birds always pop up in my work, but I'm quite found of them.