Today, Edie and I got to go visit my friend Tiny's baby goats, Luna and Prank. They were born at about breakfast time this morning. It is amazing to me that they can walk around and have a full coat of fur at birth. Thomas was bald until he was about one, I think.

I was sorting through all of the art that my kids bring home from school and I found this. It's just a doodle that I did at the end of the day when they were a little younger. Maybe a little glimpse of parenthood at the witching hour.

On my most recent project, I've decided to do something new with color. I discovered a way of working using only a warm and a cool shade of each primary color (6 colors total- cerulean blue and french ultramarine, etc...), supplemented by a couple of extra colors that aren't mixable.
Theoretically, mixing only the same temperature primaries together will produce clean bright secondary and tertiary colors. So far I have been able to mix just about every color that I have wanted and a black that has far more depth than anything I had previously used. I found the information on the Daniel Smith website: http://danielsmith.com/
Choose the learn tab, and you will find all kinds of useful information.

The frustrations of planting a pumpkin.

Here's a recent sketch from a reader. Can you guess what the story might be?

I am working on a project that needs to be done in pen and ink and watercolor. This is my old style, and now I know why I switched. I much prefer the warmth of pencil line.

I am trying to infuse a little personality into the mice I have been drawing. Here's a little spot I finished for my trip.

Darn, I wish I knew what the future will look like. It would make this job a whole lot easier.

Color version of homepage. Unfortunate scanner shadow-must eliminate...

Here's the home page image with text:

Here's a sketch that I intend to use on the homepage of my website:

Hooray! With Todd's help, I figured out how to put two pages together without a seam.
Thanks Todd!
Anyone who wants to see some seriously great paintings and illustration, check out his blogs:
http://painting-life.blogspot.com/
and
http://toddbonitaartblog.blogspot.com/

This is my latest art for Ladybug Magazine.
I am going back to watercolor for the time being. Gouache is much harder than I thought.
Hats off to all the Gouache painters out there.

Material from a recent reader:

I am working on my latest project with gouache. I like the softness and looseness, but I need to work on my palette.

Here's the cover illustration for the National Arbor Day book that I work on every month:

One more new goauche sample:

Here's my new promo sheet:

Here's a new piece I will use in a book dummy I am creating:

Here's my latest work for a magazine client:

new Lindy Blues art:

latest submission, mascot for the org. I am hoping to work for.

Here's a recent art submission. The character on the stump is vanishing. Incidentally, my first use of Photoshop on a professional level.

Here's the newest member of our family: