Mother's Day Gift

I made this cup for my mother in law this mother's day. I waited to post it because I mailed it to her and didn't want to ruin the surprise. :)

You've bees in your tea.

I painted these silly little cups for a friend of mine.


One honey bee and one bumble bee. Each painted pretty much to scale.

The Bookwood on Etsy!

I've finally set up a shop on Etsy. I've only listed 5 items so far but there's more to come! Check it out! http://www.etsy.com/shop/thebookwood?ref=si_shop

Alistair: 3 months

I can't believe he's nearly 3 months old! Yesterday we put him in the little round play seat at my parent's house and he seemed to really dig it. Thanks to ma and Janice for holding him while I finished this little portrait. :)

Social Implications

Craft Bazaar!

This Saturday I will be participating in a Craft Bazaar along with about 30 other talented crafters and artists. It will be at Emmanuel Baptist Church: 2727 Lake Ave. Snohomish, WA 98290. From 10-4. Come on out, bring your friends!

collaborative works:

Painted with Edward today. Actually, it was more a matter of me painting, while he swept the five brushes he had in each fist over and over across my work. Here is a few images of what remained.

Resurrection Sunday Breakfast

This is something I just finished up for my Church. I really enjoyed doing the lettering. Especially the display caps with flowers inside.

China Painting

Every Thursday I go to my Grandma's to paint. Sometimes we watercolor, but lately we've been china painting. It's kind of a dying art as far as I can tell. Grandma got into it...well, before I was born. She paints anniversary plates for her children, and piggie banks and tea cups for her grandchildren. She has shared her art with us grandkids with great generosity over the years, not only making us sweet little delicately hand painted pieces over the years, but also allowing us to try our hand at it from a surprisingly young age. When other kids were given finger paints and play-dough at grandma's house, we were given a rabbit hair paintbrush and a teacup. I think I painted my first hot plate when I was maybe seven or eight. It's an orchid, and is rather ugly (my mom still has it). Thankfully, a few years, and bit of art training has improved my painting skills a bit. My content, however, has become rather more...childish.





I'll be posting more projects as I finish them.

Drawing with my boys

Initially I drew the boys without hats, but Edward, who is rather obsessed with his hat at the moment, insisted I add hats to the drawing.