Happy Earth Day! 💙

 

Happy Earth Day! I recently visited a local school in the K.C. area to read Hello, World! Garden Time, which is a great spring, read. 📖 🌱 I love having the opportunity to not only write and illustrate books but to share them in person with little learners. I think we all walked away with a greener thumb!

(If you're interested there is a variety of Hello, World!coloring pages available to download on my website.)

 

       

Ready to make some discoveries?

I love working with Little Sleepies it's fun to see my prints come to life on their products! Meet Underwater Discoveries, a print they commissioned for their Mama Earth collection out now. 💙

You can see the entire collection here.

Stepping into the season.

 

Spring is finally here! Sigh 😊

Busy Bunnies

 

May chocolate eggs and marshmallow treats appear in your yard or nearby park. 

Enough to fill a big basket. Happy Easter! 🐰 🍫

Blast off!

 

April is here & today boasts two exciting celestial events. First, Artemis II heads to the moon! I'm a space enthusiast & am excited to follow along with this mission. It's a test run (of sorts) to bigger, more expansive missions to come. Also, I don't want to forget to mention that tonight is the pink moon! Not truly pink but called so as it is the first full moon of spring and promise growth and color to come. All of this is a great way to greet APRIL! 🚀  🌕  💓

In the air.

 

The spring weekend was effervescent and everyone felt good, even the insects!

Hope you feel good too. 🌷 🐜

A few happy finds....

a chalk drawn rainbow on a blue wall at the playground.

A pigeon's nest with EGGS out the second floor window at the gym

Pigeon egg's hatch within 17 to 19 days. I noticed them a couple days so I'm guessing in about two weeks! 🐣 They start out like a little dino nugget. Let's just say they grow into their beauty!
 

Signs of spring 🌱

 

Grass is greening, this sun is out a little longer, and robins are busy building nests.

Signs of spring are popping up all are me!

I hope you're seeing them too. 🌷

This was a print Gymboree (the kid's clothing store) commissioned me to make. 

I called it NATURE WALK. Above is the finished print. 

 

  

Here's the painted cut paper start, matching back to a Pantone palette. 

  

 Some work in progress. Almost ready to be scanned in with more details to be added digitally.

 

The prettiest palettes sometimes appear when I'm making art!