I’m thinking this wasn’t the neighbor’s cat. We found two similar piles within a few yards of each other in our front yard. The second one was close to a line of empty (except for the leftover dirt) potted plant containers which were lined up along a wall of our small outdoor building. A couple of the containers had been tipped …

As you may have seen at the top of this blog, I’ll be changing over to a professional newsletter generator beginning this month. When I first started sending newsletters, I used the generator that CafePress made available to shop owners, but over the past year or so I’ve gotten a little fed up with their system. Using their interface was …

After much hair pulling, I think I finally have the bugs worked out of my latest site page upload. As I drew the illustration for Cleaver Overachiever, I scanned the image in as I went along. Then I did some aligning (the best I could) and made an animation of the progress. This link will take you directly to the animation …

I think I forgot to mention it here before, but I try to keep my different art lives separate so as not to frighten the children. I’ve built a Web site that has the links to all of them though, and it’s here: www.nornie.com. If you’re old enough and you can handle the shock, you can take a look at …

I’ve posted another illustration on the Hairy Eyeballs site. I have one more spot left and then I’ll start removing the ones that are there to make room for more. This one is another page from “The T-Rex and the Hare” graphic novel.

Went for an absolutely gorgeous walk on the Laurel Highlands Trail today. I love the spot here where the trail runs in and around a maze of massive boulders. The best way to wind your way out the other side is just following the blazes. It’s been above freezing for a couple weeks now (and reached 80 degrees this afternoon!), …

I did a few more spot illustrations for Jack and Jill‘s March/April issue, and I’ll post a couple of them here. The illustrations were part of their Earth Day article that suggested things kids could do to “go green.” First, they encouraged kids to open a window when the weather was warm enough. I had to play with the “wind” …

Here’s the sketch I drew for the illustration to go with Cleaver Overachiever. Again, I’ll finish it with graphite, and when I’m finished I’ll post it on the illustration extras page of the site. I’ve made a bunch of splatters with powdered graphite to play around with, and I’ll figure out later which one I like best for the final drawing. The …

Here are a few more of the illustrations I did for Jack and Jill‘s March/April issue. These ones were spots that were scattered in and around some “how to go green for Earth Day” suggestions. This first one encouraged kids to ride their bikes to school. I played with that iconic “school zone” street sign showing kids walking to school …

As promised, here’s the first illustration I had to redraw for style consistency. It’s called Bombs Away, and the one on the left was originally published as a greeting card a few years ago. The right one is the redraw.