“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.“
from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem Ulysses
illustration
March 2012 Calendar
May the luck of the Irish be with you…. on your desktop… right click and save!
Happy March!
….. and please feel free to comment!!!
It’s Pig Day!
Sooo weee …. pig, pig, pig! It’s National Pig day……. No really it is!
Started by Ellen Stanley, a Texas art teacher who created National Pig Day in 1972.
Her intent was to to recognize and be thankful for pigs as intelligent domestic animals.
There’s no evidence to suggest that this is truly a “National” day, which requires an act of congress. But you can celebrate it anyway!
A few suggestions…
- Make pig tails by cutting a pink circle around and around toward the middle and then taping it onto the back of your pants…. so much fun for everyone at the office!
- Make a pig ear head band…. getting the idea!
- Make pig snouts to wear out of empty toilet tissue rolls….. to complete the ensemble, of course!
Then once everyone has a costume you could:
- Have a pig parade…. don’t forget to wave at the nonconformists in the lunch room!
- Have Pigs in a Blanket for lunch….. and of course eat like piggies….. oink , oink, oink!
- Roll on the floor likes pigs rolling in mud….. this is the best part!
- Sing the This Little Piggy song…. flourished with pig squeals of course!!!
Why should preschoolers have all the fun?? Oink, Oink, Oink….
Heart Dance ~ Intention
“To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.”
~ Indian proverb
Capable
Just what makes that little old ant
Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can’t
Move a rubber tree plant
But he’s got high hopes
He’s got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie
In the sky hopes.
So any time your feelin’ low stead of lettin’ go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant
~Sammy Cahn
Fluid
“May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as it’s foam.”
Writing and Illustrating
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Here’s a new character for a story that I wrote last month while participating in the 12 x 12 writing challenge. It’s been interesting to do a book design and character that was funny, but still sweet like the story. After wrestling with him for about a week, I think I’ve found him. Now you don’t have to illustrate anything to participate in the 12 x12 challenge.
That’s just what I did with this one, but I am learning a lot about myself as both a writer and an illustrator.
There are eleven more to be written, and I doubt there will be eleven dummy books to go with them…. for now ! :)
