Illustration Friday: Sneaky

 I was trying to ignore Illustration Friday this week, so I can fully focus on 3 other projects all due Nov. 30th, but when I saw the topic was 'sneaky' I looked over, and saw my squirrel apple thief sketch. I did this a few weeks ago while I was drawing my piggies in the orchard below. I had my Carrot Donut Thief painting sitting nearby & looked at my squirrel in my header & decided to do a mashup of squirrel boy in motion.

After posting the first autumn piggie piece here, and receiving some very helpful critiques, (thank you blog friends!) I made the adjustments to the pig in the foreground, so he's now sneaking a bite of apple. I'm eager to color these, but I won't be able to get back to them until December. So, next month it will still be fall for me.

Busy Bee Teacher illustrations

I'm now hard at work on 2 paintings, and my They Draw & Cook holiday entry, all due at the end of November here. In the meantime, I wanted to share the illustrations for this web design project for Natalie Rompella's online lesson planner, Busy Bee Teacher.

 Natalie, who I met through SCBWI was wonderful to work with, and her program will help so many busy teachers simplify their planning all from home.

 A subscription to the program makes a great useful gift for your child's teacher. It's great for a teacher who hates writing lesson plans, sub plans, or plans for an absent student.

Illustration Friday: Spent - Afterwards

Well, this is a very late post done specifically for Illustration Friday's topic, spent. I wanted to do a literal interpretation and not one of my typical stretch the topic deals. But, now I'm posting after the deadline and the new topic is afterwards, so here we are doing a new stretch.

I plan to color this, (or perhaps it should be just a line drawing), and add it too my promotional packet of piggies and such. I think I need to decrease the size of the piggie bank. Critiques are welcome.