Illustrations for King County Library System - and hey, it's also Chinese New Year! And there's a dragon!

I recently had the great pleasure of doing some illustrations for King County Library System, which I was SUPER EXCITED about, because, well, LIBRARY!!!

The theme was "Many Voices, One Land," to promote their multicultural events. I was very honored to be asked to do these illustrations.

And, luckily, I'm posting this just in time for Chinese New Year, so you get to see a little dragon parade.

Here are some little spot illustrations as well. My favorite are the Indian dancers.

Naturalist spot illustrations

Some natural science-y spot illustrations. Just for fun times.

Black cat barely tolerates your existence.

Rainforest

I felt like drawing a rainforest... and it kind of grew and grew, like rainforests do.

Spot of Tea

A little teapot spot illustration for the back of my latest promo card.

Wee Mondine Logo for Aeolidia

Here's a logo I did a while ago, just getting around to posting it now.

Happy Winter Solstice

It's not quite the solstice yet, but close enough.

Witches celebrate Winter Solstice, right? Happy Winter Solstice, all you adorable witches.

Camp Secret

I'm excited to announce that a book I worked on earlier this year has just come out!  Camp Secret, by Kathryn Dennis and Melissa Mahle (who, by the way, no big deal, is a former CIA intelligence agent), is a middle grade novel that follows four kids as they discover that their summer camp is really a training ground for junior spies. It's a really fun read, and you can read the first chapter here, or learn more about the book and the authors at their website.

Front cover:

 Back cover:

 Map of the camp:

 Portraits of the 4 main characters:

Portfolio Piece

Finished this portfolio piece! Watercolor and pencil.

Pretty dresses

I just wanted to draw some pretty dresses.

Further Adventures of Ghost Cat: In Which Ghost Cat Encounters a Fish

Ghost fish is unharmed by the encounter.

Ghost bee

I was requested to draw a ghost bee. Ghost cat makes an appearance.

Ghost cat in the city

Starting to think about Halloween-ish things; therefore I present you with a ghost cat mysteriously floating above a city.

Girl in the rain

Sometimes it's quite soothing to make something very repetitive.

Reading is out of this world

Reading! It's the hip new thing all the kids are talking about!

Mermaid tail

Been a while since I've done a mermaid.

Arctic fox and starry sky (with ptarmigan who has met an unfortunate end)

Let me just say that I started out intending to draw a perfectly nice Arctic fox with starry sky scene, and then somewhere along the way a ptarmigan bit the dust. But you know, foxes have to eat too. Even adorable Arctic foxes.

Payne's Gray

Taking a short break from my current illustration project. Watercolor doodle on a scrap of watercolor paper, using Payne's Gray, Alizarin Crimson and a little bit of Quinacridone Magenta. Payne's Gray is pretty much my favorite watercolor color, which is odd, considering that it's gray, but it's a very lovely blue-gray.

Brand guide for my logo

Branding guide for my own logo.

Work in Progress

A little bit of what I'm working on right now.