A belated New Year’s Eve post – Darwin in his best to ring in 2016. Can’t wait to share more sketches of this little pup this year!
character sketches
All Good Things
character sketches, children's illustration, darwinI love these two. When I’m feeling nervous, insecure, or plain hopeless, Darwin and Emma always fill me with a little light and hope. Maybe they do the same for you!
Darwins for Sale
character sketches, children's illustration, darwin, mud pup, sketches, watercolorI’m so excited to announce some sales of my work coming up! Look for a second post about my fine art sales happening this weekend, and next weekend (May 3rd) my Darwin plushes and cards will be selling at the Mass Art Spring Sale! I am so excited my work was picked for the sale.
I’m creating a Darwin “Look Book”, a short introduction for those who don’t know this pup, to sell with the plush toys. These are some of the images I created for the book:
Let me know in the comments if you have favorites!!
Co-Pilot Adventures continue…
UncategorizedNow that Spit and Sticks is complete (to be out in June 2015!!) I have more time to spend on my original stories and portfolio. Darwin and Emma, as always, are dancing around in my head, and so is their story about airplanes and being co-pilots. So I combined the idea with the Fall theme, and came up with this little ditty:
Watercolor and digital collage 
Also, Darwin in his homemade airplane:
You’re welcome!
Work from Fall coming soon!
UncategorizedBeginning my new year long teaching position at Henderson Inclusion School has me super busy. Between schoolwork, teaching, and having a life, I have less time to update my blog. However, this does not mean I’m not creating work!! The 2 hours of back and forth commute each day have me drawing and inking in sketchbooks constantly, and I’m trying to get as many new ideas down on paper as I can.
Back in September, I had this idea to illustrate some sassy ballerinas. Here are the results (white-ish background, and collaged background. Watercolor original)
A Sketch of my Nona
character sketches, children's illustration, grandmas are both italian, happiness, inspiration, italy, kidslit, sketchesI recently came across a really old sketch I had done in preparation for working on some images for my story “My Grandmas are Both Italian”.
This is an image of my Nona – Anita – mixing a bowl of food in the kitchen. She is always cooking us something great, while wearing her famous blue apron. Even though she doesn’t move about the kitchen as fast as she used to, she still has a grin on her face when she’s putting together a meal. There is so much love in her food, and so much love and light in her. She is the epitome of happiness, and I hope one day I can find that sort of contentment in my life.
Her tiramisu and gnocchi are her signature dishes.
This sketch is really light, so I had to play with it in Photoshop a little:
Nicole Gsell 