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So you remember that Frankenstein hot cocoa idea I was doing for the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators drink mix directory? Yeah. It wasn’t really working for me, so I canned the idea and started over. I dreaded having to sit down and work on it for some reason. I still might use it somewhere someday, but right now it just …

I’ll be participating in the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrator‘s mixed drink directory later this year, and I wanted to mash Frankenstein up with a little steampunk. My recipe will be for hot cocoa, and this is the sketch I came up with. Thanks once again to Harpers Ferry, WV, and their great collection of stone buildings and textures that have yet to …

  This was a drawing I made at work one day, and I wasn’t really sure what to do with him at the time. Since then, I figured out a way to squeeze him into the book I’ve been working on, and here he is, “spruced up” a bit to fit with the other stories in the book.

Here’s why you have to actually proofread (and don’t assume spell check is good enough). Whoever wrote out the results of an 1870 (or 1890, depending on where you get your information) German study misplaced a decimal point one spot to the right of where it was supposed to be and gave spinach ten times the iron than it actually …

I’ve had root canals before, so this one wasn’t bothering me all that much. I never really understood what all the bad press was about. Yeah, it was inconvenient, expensive, took a long time (try holding your mouth open wide for an hour and see what I mean) and took more than one trip, but I never really experienced major pain …

I’m finished with winter. We’ve endured snow on the ground almost every day since the beginning of December, and the time I’ve set aside for winter months has officially run its course. The sunny days and beautiful blue skies will only dupe the senses for so long when the temperature refuses to go high enough to melt the white stuff. …

This story started with the writing prompt: “You know what else children don’t know?” which seemed a likely candidate to be its title. So it is. Not sure where the prompt originated, but consider this my “Thank you, you twisted writer’s prompt person, you” to the twisted writer’s prompt person who thought that up. You can click on the image …

Meet Nick. He’s trying to be my next postcard image. We’ll see how that goes after he gets some color. P.S. The horn player’s name is Clarice.

Here’s the finished version of the pumpkin pie sketch I posted last month. I’d like to play a little more with the steam wafting in the air, but the problem I’m running into is creating steam, not smoke. It may stay as-is, don’t know yet. It all depends on how much it really wants to change. I’ll see what it says. …

So for Christmas, the present I gave that made the biggest splash was a Web site I built for my husband. He’s a potter, a sculptor and a painter, and the site was designed to showcase his work. The gift included a domain name and perpetual updates. He’s never had a Web site before and was so impressed with the …

This is Space Boy. I drew him on my napkin at Leo’s Pub & Grille, Mount Pleasant, PA. He says not all space boys are from Mars.

I originally sketched this little guy one day at work. I thought he was cute.The first version (at the top) was pretty simple, just Robot and his custom-designed ax. I liked him, and I wanted to include him in the book somehow, but he just wasn’t fitting in. Maybe a little too cute. So I spruced him up a little. Now he’s happy.