Girl with Pink

Life has been a little busy for me lately. But I don't want to get too busy and not illustrate or draw in the evenings. So I whipped up this little girl and think she will become a stamp - or at least I will attempt to make her into a stamp, after some simplifying. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Cherries

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Weekend

I hope everyone had a good weekend! Tweet Follow @kellymedina

St. John's Wort

On my morning bike rides to work, I am constantly noticing (even recognizing!) different plants in yards, parks, and any other landscaping I pass and getting inspired. I've been thinking we need some nice ground cover in our yard and I keep seeing this St. John's Wort all over the place. It is hardy plant, flexible with sun or shade, and fits into the natural woodsy yard that we have. I love the yellow flowers, aren't they great? Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Illustration Friday - Canned

It is always a good idea to have some extra canned dreams, love, and luck (to name a few).

I wanted to participate in this weeks IF and this was the first idea that I drew in my sketch book.

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Farmer's Market

I went to the Farmer's Market today and got all sorts of great veggies and some honey. Being that C and I want to have our own chunk of land to grow our own food someday, this was very inspiring and it just felt great to buy locally. The prices were quite comparable to conventional produce at the stores. It was a lot of fun to fill up my re-usable grocery bag.

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Finally!

I had a rubber stamp success! I have struggled a bit with figuring out my best method to make stamps. I mistakenly bought the wrong type of material and my tools were all wrong. I finally picked up the right stuff and was determined to make something I really liked. I still have much practice ahead of me to get the clean lines I desire though. But I was very happy with this little bunny.

The illustration for the stamp. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Plant Parts

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Bug

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Illustration Friday - Foggy

Faugh the Dragon loved his afternoon naps, but little did he know that it made the small town below foggy every time.

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This is the topic from last week. I had this illustration done, but I didn't have time to color it before Friday. I wanted to color it and post it anyways. I've been playing with several styles and really like having one style that looks hand drawn, rather than totally drawn on computer. Keeps the hand drawn feel, right?

I played around with Illustrator and Photoshop to color and create lines for this. I am really happy, because I feel like I am getting a bit more experience in using Illustrator and Photoshop together. I used to be a Macromedia Freehand girl (the program I used in school) for design and illustrating. I was always frustrated with Illustrator and Photoshop - that is not the case now! I really love the two programs and think CS3 made some great fixes to make the programs so fun to use.

So glad it is Friday tomorrow.. now time to sleep. Tweet Follow @kellymedina