recovering

Sorry about the lack of posts lately but I've been quite sick - first with the stomach flu and now with some sort of sinus cold. Today was the first time that I've felt well enough and had the energy to do any art.

This black and white illustration is for a local rodeo magazine. They were quite specific, requesting a 'wanted' poster of a bull doing a painting. The space at the bottom is for some information they want to add.


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

toddler sketch

©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

ahnabith gish at cjsw

Saturday night ended up being really fun.

My husband's band, Ahnabith Gish, was being interviewed at our local university radio station, CJSW. They were also playing a few songs live. The band asked me to go along to take some photos of them. Since we were going to be there for several hours, I also brought my sketchbook to entertain myself.

I had never been to the radio station before - it's a pretty cool little space. I really liked the wall of shelved records.

I ended up sketching each of the guys in the band in my children's book style. The sketches turned out alright.


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©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

And some photos from the evening...

playing with watercolor

These are a couple of experiments I did in my sketchbook this week using watercolor and a bit of gouache.



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girl writing my return address

I've been working on a new promo for the work I do in the children's market for several months. It's going to be some sort of booklet (I've been doing postcards for years and wanted to do something a bit more involved). I still have a few more illustrations to do before it's done, but I also also needed a design for the envelope. I painted this today:

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for charity

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ball point pen doodles

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thanks dena

I've been meaning to post a 'thank you' to local illustrator Dena Seiferling. She was kind enough to show her work and talk to my class last week. Check out her portfolio here and her blog here.

some more attempts at a blog banner

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You can check out my first attempt here.

more sketchbook activity

©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli