Little Turtle

Fooling around. This may turn into a larger illustration - i like how the fan coral turned out.

More Shells Studies

Painted mussel shells today. Watercolor.

Help the Gulf Coast

Check out this collective Etsy shop created to help the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. 100% of the proceeds are donated to the National Wildlife Federation and OxFam America.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/HelpTheGulfCoast

For more info and details about the donations you can visit the blog here:
http://www.helpthegulfcoastetsy.blogspot.com

I've donated this print


Lots of other great handmade stuff too. You can use the sections to help navigate it all.

Periwinkles collection

Here is a painting i just finished of my collection of periwinkles.
I picked them up off a beach in Nova Scotia when i was a little kid. I've always loved their variety of patterns and textures. Recently i've been interested in botanical illustrations and this is somewhat inspired by them.


Anyway, prints of this are available in my shop now.

Also, this is a cool blog i found the other day. http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/
She posts a different little collection every day.

New Work

Recently I've been working on some picture books and comics involving my whale illustrations. That took a lot of energy away from this blog, but I'm hoping to update it more often now.

Here is a recent commission I finished. Macintosh:


More later.

Yesterday I went fossil hunting/beach combing. Found some decent sea glass and my first not broken crocodile tooth (bottom center) - a little small, but still very cool! Found a fair amount of shark teeth also but nothing especially big. Saw a few snakes and a TINY baby snapping turtle the size of a beetle. Also managed to stop the beginnings of a forest fire from someones poorly disposed of camp fire.

Plover Watercolor

I put up a new original watercolor for sale at my Etsy Shop. Check out the listing for more info. Also should have some more bird paintings up in the next few days/weeks.