Medusa Mermaid sketch

January 9, 2010

Hello everyone. I hope you had a happy and safe New Year!  Recently,  I had one of my biannual office tidies and came across this convention sketch from a few years ago.  I’m not sure how many years ago, because I forgot to date it and it just ended up in a pile of papers sitting under my desk. Anyway, at conventions I generally can’t make too much progress on paying work because electricity can be scarse and expensive, so it’s generally a good opportunity to draw.  I even offer to do fairly inexpensive sketches as a way to pass the time and make sure i can still make marks on paper. Sometimes, I get lucky and get something worth keeping and possibly developing later.  Let me know if you think this should be one.

Wishing you all the Joys of the Season!

December 16, 2009

I just finished our family holiday card and wanted to share with my friends on the Web. 

Merry Christmas!

Monsters in the Dark

November 11, 2009

It was a busy summer this year.  Besides my regular card work, work for the RPG “A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying” and the front and back covers to “Morticai’s Luck“, my old friend Jason Blair looked me up for a new publishing venture of his. Out of the blue he emailed me when a few days before I had been talking to my hubby Jeff that I should look him up!  Serendipity.  Especially when h explained that he wanted me to work on the long-awaited expansion to the Little Fears RPG we had worked on many years before, and that it would tie into my fairly recent goal of doing more kid-related art!  Here is the final art for the book which was recently released.

Morticai’s Luck cover

October 6, 2009

*Sigh* I never post here as regularly as I should.  You would think that now that I’m on Facebook and Twitter, I would find updating my portfolio site easier, but no luck.  Anyway, let me get to the business at hand.  I recently wrapped up work for the book Morticai’s Luck, to be published by rising star publisher DarkStar Books. I did two pieces,  the front cover shown as well as a back cover, which is the moodier of the two pieces.  I really enjoyed working on these because I got to research the gorgeous costuming of 18th century France.  I also had the pleasure of meeting the author, Darlene Bolesny, during my recent trip to DragonCon.