Oh My Gouache

Making the move from mainly using watercolor to mainly using gouache took a lot of thought. I felt like I was breaking up with a medium. And now that gouache and I are ready to update our relationship status on Facebook, I don’t know why I didn’t make the move sooner. Gouache and I are totally full on dating now. Here’s our first collaboration (a re-imagining of a piece I did a while back in watercolor).

Sprung

It’s shocking. NYC is sunny, warm and pleasant out there today. Before temperatures dip again and the sprung of spring becomes a sprang at the end of the week, it’s time to get out there and enjoy it. Some might be inclined to don fashionable boots and dive into horticultural madness like the kiddo below. I, however, am inclined to take my dog to the park and as he sniffs every tree in a 30 mile radius, I’ll absorb copious amounts of vitamin D like a snowbird in Boca.

Sleep No More

I’d rather be slumbering with sweet content like the little wombat below, but deadlines and coffee tell me otherwise.

Go Away

Yeah, winter chill, I’m talking to you. You were cute and all when it was fun to bring out the sweaters, and huddling over homemade cocoa was new once again. But now, you make us want to hide. Perhaps this unhatched little creature has the right idea in terms of outerwear. Blech.

 

Spotlight: Alain Gree

When I need a reality check I…wait. Let me rephrase that. When NYC, city I love, has made me so tightly wound I feel like I might punch a pigeon if it looks at me funny, I turn to Alain Gree’s artwork. He creates just about the sunniest, happiest, dagnabbit adorable illustrations I’ve ever seen. If you want some sunny smiles and/or the pigeons in your neighborhood live in fear of you, go here: http://www.alaingree.com/en/main.htm

Dinner Bell Dachshund

It may be blustery, cold, rainy, slushy and snowy out, but all this little pup cares about is that IT’S ALMOST DINNERTIME…and there’s some roasted butternut squash calling my…ehrm…his name.

Life Aquatic

It’s no big secret that I’m obsessed with sharks so here’s another one for you. I’m pretty sure this one just gulped down February (aka the worst winter month ever) so we can be one step closer to spring and all the al fresco dining it entails.