Dragonflies hold your place until you come back

I had created some bubble paint background for bookmarks a while ago. I used one to make a bookmark for my mother for her birthday. I thought dragonflies would be appropriate since the bubble background kinda looks like water. I didn't want the background to show through the watercolor, so I sketched them with ink and painted them on watercolor paper, then cut them out and attached them to the background. I found the watercolor paper to be almost too thick to cut out such small intricate shapes. I may have to use thinner paper next time. I attached the bookmark to card stock and inserted it into a plastic sleeve to protect it.

Dragonfly Collage bookmark for Mom

Old buddies - pet portrait

Working on a pet portrait on this gray day - 2 old goldens, BFFs

10x8 soft pastel on canson paper

An apple a day

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. I must need to eat more apples. A very hectic holiday a combination of visits with family & friends, and hospital visits & fighting sickness, I'm trying to catch my breath. I hope everyone has a safe and healthy new year.

Funny Little Sketches

The iPod sketch is from a series I did several years ago - just funny quick little sketches when I was trying to make my self draw something every day - I called it MAMAD (make a mark a day). Unfortunately I wasn't able to keep it up for very long, Maybe I'll try again in the near future.
Heres a link to some of the other sketches I did.

http://homepage.mac.com/justineremington/Pet%20Portraits%20-%20Fine%20Art/wip/files/14-december-2008.html

The first computer I bought was a Windows HP, The second computer I bought was a Mac... & I've never looked back. Steve you will be missed.

 larger view

A pair of boxers

I had the privilege to work on these fine boxers &  finished this pet portrait last week (Christmas present)

UGH! STINK BUG!

While, from what I've heard, my invasion of Stink Bugs isn't as bad as some, we have had our fair share sneaking into our house. Usually if we get 1 or 2 all year it's a lot, I usually see them on my tomatoes in the middle of the summer.
This past weekend, I've had to dispose of at least 2 dozen or so I've found in the darnedest  places (in the window blinds, behind the flour next to the stove, in the cabinet, in a blister pack of pills, in the refrigerator) Plus open the garage door, and they come swarming out of the garage.
I sketched this little guy today on a sticky note with pencil and sharpie. Scanned him in and applied several layers of filters and color modifications in photoshop to create this illustration.