Fun with high contrast!

These are some 5 x 7 cards I designed for a book I'm working on. I also hung the dog and the owl in my son's nursery. They were a lot of fun to create! The dog is a different approach, so I'm thinking of maybe redoing the owl and chameleon in a similar way.

Thanks for any comments and for stopping by!

-Joy

Father's Day!

This is my wonderful husband's first father's day. He's such an amazing dad I'm in awe. He's so patient and sweet and takes such good care of our boy. I'm so glad we decided to have a child, it took us long enough to come around! If my boy grows up to be anything like his father, I'll be so proud. Notice how the husband can "multi-task" with the iPhone in hand, t-hee.

Happy Father's Day!

Phinneaus Whistlestop

This was a quick little illustration I did for a client before Christmas. It's a cover for a story my client's mother wrote and she wanted me to illustrate it to give her mom for Christmas. So sweet and a pretty creative idea for a gift I think.

Thanks for any comments and for stopping by!

-Joy

Pieces for Sweet Breams show!

Here are the three pieces I entered for the Sweet Breams art show this last time. The show is down now, but was really fun and a good turn out! Thanks to Sweet Breams for inviting me to participate in the show!

I like how the pieces turned out and enjoyed making them a lot. I have a few of each left if anyone is interested in purchasing them. I'm just charging $20 a piece plus shipping and I do take Paypal. They are digital, 8 x 10 prints on archival paper. So, if you're interested drop me an email and let me know.

Here is a quick picture I snapped of the framed pieces before putting them up at the show. Usually I'd choose something more simple to frame the work in, but I thought the wood frames added to the art in this case.

I hope you like them and would love any comments! Thanks for stopping by!

-Joy

CLICK MAGAZINE- "Fall to Winter " spread

Here are the illustrations for the spread I did that was published in the November 2010 issue of CLICK Magazine.

It was a fun assignment and I liked working with the AD. As you can see, the illustrations show the same kids but in different seasons Fall and Winter. You can go through the images and note the differences in what happens in the scenes. Not a true "find the differences" but I liked this direction the AD gave better.

Thanks for taking a look and have a great weekend!!

-Joy

IF- Winter

Here is my post for IF topic "Winter". This is actually part of a spread I did for CLICK magazine this year that was published in the November issue.

I hope everyone has had a great winter so far and holiday season! Thanks for stopping by and for any comments :o)

-Joy

Sweet Breams Art Show

I'm posting this a little last minute, but this Saturday I'm in another fun art show at Sweet Breams! The opening starts at 8PM Saturday, November 20th. It's located at a great little shop in San Mateo called Sweet Breams, where they serve delicious little Japanese desserts called chibi taiyaki. The show runs through January, so come by anytime after this Saturday, too! I have 3 pieces up in the show and will post them here on my blog after the show opens.

I have a few pieces left from the last show that I'm putting up for sale. Here's an earlier post so you can take a look http://stewystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/illos-for-show.html I'm selling the 11 x 17 prints for just $30! Email me if you're interested in buying one :o) joystewy@yahoo.com.

Thanks!
Joy