Be Mused Art

This week’s illustration friday theme was “perspective”. And of course with all the Alice in Wonderland things around these days, my first though was the image of that rabbit hole.
Also this is the first time I managed to use masking fluid and not mess something up. I found the Masquepen at my [...]

Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational Story
I just got through reading the book Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco. It is a really good book on childhood bullying and I strongly recommend it for parents and teachers. Between reading this book and the roller-coaster ride of trying to find [...]

This week’s Illustration Friday Theme was “propagate”. With all the dragons I have been drawing lately, I have been propagating the species rather well. So we have a mommy dragon with her eggs or dragon seeds, propagating the species.
I had a lot of fun with this one and all the detail [...]

The illustration Friday them for last Friday was “Adrift”. With everything going on in my life with my mom’s hospitalization and trying to find her a nursing home, trying to get ready for the conventions, all the normal things with trying to raise kids the term adrift brought to mind one of my happier [...]

This is what I worked on all day at ConDFW. I will have the original on sale at the convention in the dealers room if you want to stop by and see it in person. But if you can’t make it to the convention, check out the bookmark on etsy. The [...]

woke me up a bit late this morning, something about dealing with the dog’s reaction to the snow. Upon hearing about snow, I was not a happy camper. All the things I had planned to get done today went through my head. I needed to run some errands, get a new [...]

This week’s illustration friday theme is “muddy”. So here we have one of my cute little dragons having some fun in the mud. It is an 8×8″ watercolor and ink painting.

This cute little dragon card was made using one of my stamp designs from Queen Kat Designs. I am so ready for spring and you can see that in this little card.
I used Momento Tuxedo Black ink pad, some pink card stock leftover from K making valentines and some sparkly floral card stock [...]

I finished this painting around 2am. I have been working on it as much as I could in between headaches since Friday. I think she might be the sexiest thing I have done yet. I think I might have finally grasped how to do flesh tones with watercolor paint. She [...]

These are just a couple of the paintings I have finished in the last couple of days. Beach play is an 8×10″ watercolor painting and is the largest of the things I have finished. All the others, just like the cookie thief here, are artist trading card size painting.
I have been listing [...]