I'm happy to announce my Etsy shop is up and running again! It's a little bare now but I will be adding more soon.

Click the link above or copy and paste https://www.etsy.com/shop/neesha into your web browser.

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"Annabell is a creative introvert who rescues an abandoned baby raccoon. The two are inseparable until Annabell realizes clover feels left out not being with his own kind. Can Annabell let go of the only friend she's ever had? Will the other raccoons accept Clover?"

Take care!

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Well apparently I have OCD because I just couldn't let this one go. I am seriously obsessing, but I like it much better now. Brighter and fresher with the values more in line with what I wanted.

I basically started over. Even reworked the line drawing a little. My original idea was to have the wolf's tail curling around LRRH, more intimate and disconcerting, so I went back to that.

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Thumbnails.

Color Studies.

Final Illustration.

 That's it! Thanks for reading.

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Ink, gouache, and digital. I tried to follow the value study as closely as possible.

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"Almost every day he took his gun and shot-bag  and went into the woods with Flag."

In college we were taught the importance of value studies before starting an illustration. It only took me four and a half years to fully appreciate what our teachers were trying to hammer into us.

This is based off an excerpt from "The Yearling." So excited to paint this now!

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"Wings" is an amazing book with behind the scenes photography of Cirque du Soleil.  Veronique Vial traveled with the circus for years, and compiled her photographs in this book.  Some photos are as strange as you would imagine, but my favorites are the more candid shot of performers practicing or getting ready.  It is an excellent source of inspiration.  Not only is the subject matter bizarre and incredibly interesting, but her photographs themselves are gorgeous.

Anyways, here is a clown.  If you own the book you can see where the reference came from :)

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I have been super pumped to draw and paint lately.  I attribute it to finally being pleased with the outcome of some of the things I'm doing.  It's amazing how much more you want to create when your not constantly frustrated.

Anyway, here is an elephant strapped to a balloon.

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My new scanner finally came today!  I had to return the first one they sent.  It was making a horrible banging noise and wouldn't connect to my computer.  I had the customer service representative listen to it over the phone and his response was, "yeah...it's not supposed to do that."

I will say Epson's return service was great.  They sent me a new scanner right away and I have to send the broken one back in the same box.  Of course now I need to go to Fed Ex within seven days or else I get charged for two scanners.

Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but with a baby, everything becomes a lot more strenuous then it should be.

Anyways, here is the first scan.  The process photos of this painting were taken with my cell phone, so now you can actually see the tones and details for what they are.

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We have been calibrating all our monitors, laptops, and printers so the colors are actually accurate.  The correct calibration is surprisingly warmer and darker then I would have thought/have been working with.  I should have done this a long long time ago.

We used Color Munki.  With the variety of options out there (and variety of price ranges) we landed with this one.  So far it works great.

Color is subjective, it even changes with the tilt of your laptop screen, so to truly get accurate color on multiple screens is quite tricky.  And an e-mailed illustration to a client can look so different on their computer.  It's almost like saying "ok, here is generally how it looks."

Oh, and the above image doesn't really have anything to do with the subject matter in this post.  I was just playing with my new baby.

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Well for the first time I am referring you to my Facebook page to see the details of this illustration.

It was super fun to do.  Like most of my work lately, I wish I had more time to work on it.  Maybe nitpick every detail for a month or so until I'm so numb I can't tell what's good or bad anymore.

That sounds like fun.

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Hi peoples.  I made a personal Facebook page finally.  Did this little sketch for it so it wasn't just a boring blank page.

Been busy lately, unfortunately I can't show you much of what I've been working on.  Soon...soon...

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I've been busy helping Dan with some work for Home Depot and doing some projects for them myself.  Working on the Cintiq has been too tempting though, and I took a break to do a little sketch.  I've also been working on a book with a writer/self publisher.  Top secret for now though.

Check out knitbot.com for some new patterns with illustrations from yours truly.

Now I've got to go play blocks with my beautiful Bella Blu.  Cheers.

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Been a little sick lately.  The one good thing about it is I don't mind ignoring all my house hold responsibilities and doing low key things, like drawing.

I'm writing a book called, "Isabella, no!"  Similar to "No David!" but different.  My main character is a girl and she talks back.  I'm working on it as much as I can before my ADD gets the best of me and I need to move on.  I will be starting a big project in a few weeks so my goal is to finish this first and have a package ready to send to publishers.

Also I've decided that it is a lovely thing to have a bouquet of flowers sitting next to you while you paint.

TTFN.  Been watching Pooh with my baby girl.

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Went to a coffee shop for the first time in a really long time to sketch some people.  I think I'm going to have to make it a regular thing.  Although I'm not as sneaky as I used to be.  I made eye contact with way to many people while I was drawing them.  Awkward.

I remember my Illustration teacher at Ringling telling us a story where he was sketching people on a train in New York and a guy came over and angrily demanded the sketch of himself and said he did not appreciate being drawn.  I think I would die if someone did that to me.

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Here are some recent birds done for the fabulous Hannah Fettig over at Knitbot.

House Finch

Osprey

Chickadee

Lark

Tern

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This past summer I worked on "Coastal Knits" with the lovely Knitbot and Never Not Knitting ladies.  It was a super  fun project.  They let me have creative free range which is always the best; and the book is great!  Especially if you have a craft for knitting.  The inspiration for the patterns came from the east (Knitbot) and west (Never Not Knitting) coasts.  Check it out at www.coastalknits.com.

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It's Bahloo from "The Jungle Book" and the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizard of OZ".  Both of them are acrylic.  I finally finished ALL the artwork for the nursery.  Pics coming soon.

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