Happy Halloween!

Wishing you a positively ghastly Halloween & a ghoulishly good night!

Until next year...

Pattern Play

I love to paint patterns!  I've been playing around mixing & matching in cool & warm palettes. Thinking they wold make great rugs or upholstery for a an oversized chair.

Lots of possibilities!

Something New

Felt like I was channeling my inner "grandma" when I was painting this.  Definitely not my usual color palette.  Trying to push myself out of my norm & into some NEW.

The challenge continues ...

Modern Thrive Workshop

Come on a voyage with me, be part of the Modern Thrive 3-day online workshop, 

"Growing Your Freelance Illustration Business." 

Myself,  the talented Katie Vernon & Sophie Dufresne will be giving you an inside look at how we've gone about building our illustration business.  

If you sign up before 11/1 you get a special price with discount code: JillMcdonald

*Looking forward to sharing a few of the tips I've learned along the way!

Crimson Floral

Totally feeling fall today!

Happiness!

Holding fall colors in my hand.

I love to wander around the yard gathering leaves & flowers.

(my happy place)

Caffeine...

Does the trick every time!

Dinosaurs

Working on writing & illustrating the 5th book in the Hello, World! series for Random House Kids.  

This has been such an exciting & personally rewarding experience for me. (#grateful)

Can you guess what this next book will be about?

Hint.... "ROAR"

Meet Birdie

This is Birdie, my good friend Gina's pet parakeet.

He's a pretty boy & oh so photogenic!

Gina takes lots of photo of Birdie with interesting props.

(& lots of fun photos in general)

You can take a look here.

We decided to try a series with my illustrations as a backdrop for 

Birdie.  Stay tuned for more. 

We'd LOVE to make a book out if it.  

(dreaming BIG but, isn't that the only way to dream?!?)

Rambunctious Garden

Cut paper garden... No green thumb, no problem!

Sundown Color Study

Have you noticed it's getting dark earlier?

Trying to appreciate the colors of the setting sun to ease my way into

what I know is ahead.  (brrrrrrr)

Hola, October!

fashionably late...