One year ago my life was saved by the wonderful people at St. Rose Hospital. In celebration, I've made some cartoons of my memories.

In the ICU

When I got out of the ICU it was a different world.

My family's rotation

I was still on IV meds for awhile once I got home.
Did you know you can taste IV medicine in the back of
your throat?

How Quail Lost His Feathers

"How Quail Lost His Feathers"

The above illustrations go with a "why" story that I wrote. Quail begins the story with lots of beautiful feathers on his head. He is so narcissistic that he does not have any friends. Eventually he notices that the other birds do not come around to talk to him anymore, and he wonders what happened to them. A huge storm blows in and Quail worries about the other birds. As Quail looks for the others, many of his feathers are blown off, but he is not worried about his feathers. He only wants to make sure his friends are safe.

ipad Drawing: Baby

This is the puppy of my cousin's herd of dogs.

ipad Drawing: Princess

Quana is a princess of a dog. She bosses her other dog pals around and barks until they get off her pillow. When creating a portrait of Quana, I gave her royal jewels.

ipad Drawing: Pug/Emperor

This drawing is a portrait of my cousin's pug. She asked me to add some sort of clothing on him like the animal portraits in the movie Amelie. Since Bingo is originally from China, I made him into an ancient Chinese emperor.

Library Sign

Get Well Cards

Inspired by my cousin's pug...

Winter Cards

Upper Left: Holiday Preparation, Upper Right: Newcastle and Arsenal Football Clubs

Lower Left: Silly Elf, Lower Right: Injured Gingerbread man (Get well card)

Animal Humor

Hopeful Turkey

Jammin' Lamb

Cirque du Sheepe

Halloween Cards

Good Luck Card

This was created for a friend who was in a horsemanship competition.

The Red Dragon

"I love you."

Welsh Dragon Birthday Card

Bird on Holiday

More Cards

Top: I made this as a thank you card for a co-worker who gave me some baking supplies.
Middle: This one was for a friend's birthday. He makes a living training horses.
Bottom: An engagement card for my cousin. The flowers are based on Mexican embroidery.

Grandpa's Unfatootzer (Published Illustrations)

"Grandpa's Unfatootzer" was written by Sidney Goodman. By the author's request I illustrated it with watercolor. The story follows a grandfather and 3 sets of grandchildren. The grandchildren's computers break and they call their grandfather for help. He tells them that their computers have become fatootzed and that they need an unfatootzer. The grandchildren lament that they do not have an unfatootzer. Grandfather comes to the rescue by building them the magical machine and fixes their computers.

Review of the book

(The last paragraph talks about my illustrations)

Grandpa's Unfatootzer on Amazon.com

Greeting Card Examples

Continual Progress

I am constantly working on my drawings, and dream of working as a full time illustrator. Children's books and greeting cards are what I am most interested in, but I am open to any sort of illustration. The illustration included here is entitled "Dream Big."