Little Bird

Itty Bitty Art show!

Here's my piece for Monkeyhouse's upcoming Itty Bitty Art show. So glad I had time to get it done! (Phew!) I was originally going to do a small series of three pieces based off of children's pets, but ended up doing one piece about one of my own childhood pets.

I did a rough sketch of it a week or so ago- recognize it? ; )

anyway, opening reception is this
Saturday, November 8th, from 5pm-9pm
Monkeyhouse Toys and Art Gallery
1618 1/2 Silverlake Bl., LA 90026

Wishful Thinking

I want to make this into a painting for an upcoming small canvas show. It's based off a pet parakeet I had when I was little (from third grade through ninth) named Wishful.  She was the most awesome parakeet in the world- seriously overflowing with personality and charm!

Her name was Wishful, because for 4 months straight I wished every single night for a parakeet on the brightest star in the night time sky.  So, when I finally got her, she was a wish come true for me.  The irony of it was that the small blue bird we bought home wasn't the blue/green bird I had picked out in the store- in the flurry of nets and birds and stuffing her in a little box, we didn't really realize it until we had gotten home.  Lucky for me, I got the best bird in the world!

I miss you little one!

Illustration Friday "Memory"

There was a page in an old children's book I once had that had a drawing of all these family pets that had passed away that fascinated me. This is sort of my version of that drawing, but with some of my own pets. They gave me and my family so many great memories,  I figured this would be a good one to share for this week's Illustration friday : )

*Chloe (left) and Koko (right), half siblings (belgian sheepdog and belgian malinois- same mother, but from different litters.. their mom was a police dog)
*Wishful the parakeet (I wished for a parakeet for like, two months straight before I got her, hence the name)
*Hermione (aka Ratty) the dumbo Rat who used to get her own muffin special made for her (no chocolate chips!)
*The three brother cats Lucky, Baby and Max (left to right), who we found in the attic of our garage when they were a day old.  Max seriously had a smiley face pattern on his belly!