A great and magical bonfire on a midsummers night...

A bicycle ride...

Illustration Friday's topic this week was 'bicycle' and this little sketch appeared in my mind...

Cultivating a little love...

So I did a little painting for IF's topic of the week 'cultivate'...just can't wait for spring!

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse...

This is an older illustration that just seemed to fit perfectly for this week's word of inspiration from Illustration Friday.

Without warning, he suddenly disappeared...

Where did he go?  Wait, is that him I hear?...

Swarm...swarm...swarm...if you say it enough times it becomes this mysterious and most interesting word as you struggle trying to remember what its true meaning is. Then you let go and your subconscious creates an image...well here it is...

Little Heidi all bundled in her many layers of dresses taking a moment to enjoy a friend...

Done as an entry for the Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award, SCBWI.
The challenge was to do an illustration from Johanna Spyri’s great book Heidi. Any size, any medium.

"From the pleasant town of Maienfeld a footpath leads up through shady green pastures to the foot of the high peaks that gaze down solemnly and majestically on the valley below. Anyone who sets out in the path will soon catch the keen fragrance of low mountain herbs and grasses, for the footpath rises straight and steep to the Alps.

One bright, sunny June morning, a tall, sturdy-looking young woman, evidently a native of the mountains, was climbing this narrow path. She led by the hand a little girl, whose cheeks glowed as if there were a ruddy flame under deep-tanned skin. And what wonder? In spite of the hot June sun, the child was bundled up as if she were to confront the sharpest frost. She could not have been five years old, but it was impossible to tell anything about her natural figure, for she wore two or three dresses, one over the other, and a big red cotton scarf around her neck; her feet were lost in heavy hobnailed shoes, and the little girl looked quite shapeless as she made her hot and laborious way up the mountain."

My favorite little cookie...

The master of reverse psychology....the little gingerbread man with his incessant taunting..."you can't catch me"!

Illustration Friday - Deja-vu

This just seemed to fit perfectly....if  you saw my last post for Illustration Friday.

Illustration Friday - Winter

'White Winter Wolf'

As white winter wolf runs through the cold night air, like a magical trail behind her, she stirs up the first soft snowfall of winter....

Illustration Friday - Mail

So I just finished editing this cute little holiday card to put in the mail!
My best answer yet to those questioning little eyes of small children who sense that we as adults have a big secret that we're not sharing this time of year is...."Well, it's all about believing in the magic of Christmas".

I've just opened a greeting card shop at http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/kerriescardstore

Illustration Friday - Phenomenon

I think unicorns would qualify!