Auburn vs. Alabama

Here is a custom painting for Quinn. He loves underwater animals and sports. Auburn,(Quinn's favorite team), is pictured here, about to make the winning touchdown against their rival, Alabama.

Underwater Football Game
Oil on Canvas
20" x 20"

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Birds of a feather and the playground tree

Here are the two paintings I made with the Pre-K class for the art auction for the Children's School. This one was inspired by the tree outside of the classroom that the children play under by the playground. The kids helped me glue on the button flowers on the bottom. There are two details of the buttons following this image.
oil on canvas
4' x 4'

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This is my favorite one! I drew birds for each of the 23 students. They colored them with colored pencils. They are so colorful and beautiful. I don't remember coloring that well at age 4.
acrylic on wood
12" x 48"

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Collaborating with kids was a challenge, but I am pretty happy with the results. The auction is March 26th. Can't wait to see how it goes!

Birds of a Feather

I have been helping The Children's School with their Pre-K art auction projects. So my idea was to have the little tykes color some birds drawn on butcher paper with colored pencils and I attach the birds onto a painting of a power line in the sky. It goes with my theme of Nature vs. Manmade and includes the children's talent as well. The other painting will be an oil painting of a tree inspired by a tree painting their teacher, Jean, liked. Instead of using a palette knife to make a textured foliage, I am having the kids glue little mirrors in the tree. I'm excited to see how they turn out! I haven't done a collaborative piece since college. Here is an 8" x 8" mock up I made for the bird painting. I used my sister's family to color the birds and then gave them the painting!detail: sorry it's such a bad picture.

Laron Jr

I can show you the images since the episode has aired! So here they are, if you weren't able to get a good look on the show.

It goes: Little Laron Jr. couldn't be cuter
Eating his Christmas Pie
He put in his thumb
and pulled out a plumb
and said "what a good boy am I!"

Mr. Mailbox Man Goes to Work

Here is the video of my 2nd children's book. J.R. and I wrote a song for it last night and recorded it on garage band. Enjoy!

My art on ABC!

Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that my art will be on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I made 5 ink/watercolors for a nursery. The episode will be airing this Sunday 12/12/10, if you want to check it out!

cheers

Mr. Mailbox Man is finished!

39 pages of ink and watercolor. Over 2 years of sketching, drawing and painting, my book is finally finished! I was so excited last night that I did 3 victory laps around the house, yelling out "woo hoo, I did it!"

Here are 5 of the illustrations for you to preview. There are a very minimal amount of words in this book. It's a straight up picture book about a blue mailbox's day, from the moment he gets up and gets ready for work to the moment he is in bed reading himself to sleep. I based the neighborhood on my old neighborhood in East Atlanta Village, Atlanta.

Here Mr. Mailbox man has just awoke, performing his morning stretch:

Here he is feeding his cat:Here is grandpa and grandson paper grocery sacks, sending some mail:
Here are some construction workers waiting for the bus:

and here is Mr. Mailbox Man having dinner with his cat:

I have decided to dedicate this book to my niece, Piper. She works so hard everyday, without complaint and it reminds me of Mr. Mailbox Man getting up and doing his job, no matter what (rain or shine). I love you Pippy!