Showing posts with label cranberry festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cranberry festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

2012 Chatsworth Cranberry Festival


The 2012 Cranberry Festival Booklet Cover
and three inside pages are done!! YAY!!!

I decided to stay with the flat tire painting this year,
but finished the other one with the couple too.
(That'll be backup for next year.)


Here's a sneak peek . . . 
Each year I add something fun to the book.
Designing a crossword puzzle was a new one for me!

Do you ever get started on something and have second
thoughts, wondering where you get these bright ideas?

It was a little scary at first. I never do crosswords myself.
Keeping it simple, the challenge was met
and it actually ended up being fun!

This new JD image is now available here on iStock.

Got any Jersey Devil stories?
I'd love to come up with a special theme for next year!
It'll be the 30th Annual festival.

(Please Send me your ideas.)
Here's my new ad for this year's book, using
one of my best selling images on iStockphoto.
What do you think?

It just seemed natural to share these pages here.
Most of these were posted this summer as drawings.
Sometimes it's nice to see how images evolve
and a variety of ways they might be used.

X ♥ O


As always, your comments are most appreciated!

P.S. Be sure to go to my other blog and see how

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Jersey Devil and the Flat Tire

Another summer of SketchingEveryday has come to an end.
It went by so fast! Posting every few days made it a lot easier.
I may keep posting here from time to time throughout the year.
In the meantime, you may want to follow my main blog here.

I just announced my first Fall Giveaway yesterday!
Be sure to check it out and add your comment to enter.


Ending the 2012 Summer Sketching Series,
here's another idea I had featuring the Jersey Devil
for the Cranberry Festival booklet cover.
Do you think it's spooky enough?

There's another Jersey Devil painting on the boards too!
Stay tuned, because I may need your input
to help me decide which one to use.

I hope you enjoyed this year's offerings.
I am grateful for your comments and friendship!

"Delicious autumn! 
My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns."  ~ George Eliot

Wishing You Abundance Always, 


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Merry Meet, Merry Part and Merry Meet Again

Merry Magick
5.5 x 7.5" - transparent watercolor on 140lb Arches paper, matted to 8 x 10"

Have you gotten into the fun Halloween spirit yet?

- Free Coloring Pages for Your Personal Pleasure -

Please feel free to print out the following line drawings for yourself, a friend, your children's or grandchildren's coloring fun! Each line drawing fits nicely on a standard 8.5 x 11" sheet.


This drawing is a take off from last week's "Three Witches" sketch.


And here's the "Crazy Cat Lady Witch".


An idea for this year's Cranberry Festival booklet cover.



Or possibly this one? According to tradition,


On Thursday, Jerry and I celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary. As always, he showered me with love and gifts; including, flowers, candy, beer and a great Mexican meal. Here's the colorful sunflower painting done from this drawing.



Tuesday, August 16, 2011

It's Jersey Devil Time!


It's time to start thinking about Autumn and the Jersey Devil here in the NJ Pine Barrens! Every year I do the cover art for the Chatsworth Cranberry Festival program book. I usually do several original watercolor paintings of JD too. I've got lots of sketches flying around the studio here today. Here's one of the ideas, but I still haven't picked my favorites or settled on compositional designs.

Monday, October 5, 2009

The Jersey Devil

Fall has come to New Jersey and so has an obsession with Halloween and the JERSEY DEVIL! Weird sounds and screeches woke me from a sound sleep last night. It got me wondering if it was my ole' pal JD, coming to check on this year's artwork for the Cranberry Festival Yearbook. Anyway, my files have been sent off to the printer and I should be getting a proof any day now. I thought I'd post the black and white version today, since I showed preliminary sketches here during the summer. I hope you are all enjoying the wonderful fall weather and hope to see some of you at the Apple Festival or Cranberry Festival this month!

2009 - The Jersey Devil at the White Horse Inn, Chatsworth, NJ