Simple Pencil Drawings Of Fairies

Feast of the Clover Moon

Holbein Artist Materials Special Collaboration Set
12 Selected Acrylic Gouache Colors

The Feast Of The Clover Moon
The box set illustration celebrates my love for food and foliage from Japan and Michigan, two places dear to my heart. My husband and I lived in Japan for two and a half years, and of course Holbein itself is based in Osaka. For Japan, I included kinako mochi and cherry blossoms. For my home state of Michigan, I included the white clover, which I think is an underrated flower scattered all about, as well as a little bundt cake.

Kafka and the Doll

Written by Larissa Theule
Illustrated by Rebecca Green
Based on a true story about Franz Kafka

"Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks.

The legend of Kafka and the doll has captivated imaginations for decades as it reveals the playful and compassionate side of a man known for his dark and brooding tales. Kafka and the Doll is a testament to living life to the fullest and to the life-changing power of storytelling."

Viking Press/ Penguin Random House

Illustrations were created digitally in procreate. To learn more about the process of illustrating, click here.

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Becoming A Good Creature

BECOMING A GOOD CREATURE

Written by Sy Montgomery

"School is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green's New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship, compassion, and how to be a better creature in the world.

Sy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs, others with four, or even eight! Some have had fur, feathers, or hooves. But they've all had one thing in common: a lesson to share.

Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green's beautiful, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead, pass it on."

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Fall 2020

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Illustrations were created in acrylic gouache and edited digitally. To learn more about the process, clik here!

Thunderstorm Feast

Personal Work, 2020

8x10", Water Soluble Crayon, Acrylic Gouache, Digital

Madame Saqui

MADAME SAQUI, REVOLUTIONARY ROPE DANCER

written by Lisa Robinson

Published by Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020

"In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above adoring crowds. A nouvelle chérie de Paris, Madame Saqui cemented her place in circus history, winning the adoration of the French people and royalty alike, including Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte."

"This riveting picture book biography shines both for Robinson's pitch-perfect readaloud text and Green's mural-like artwork, rendered in an age-muted palette of Revolutionary France's red, white, and blue."

—Bulletin

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Illustrations: gouache, colored pencil, water-soluble crayon on paper

Sunday Painting

Personal Work, 5x7" Gouache on paper
2020

Make Art Together!

A little celebration of the power of community in the art world.

Digital, 2020

Wooden Series

Personal Work, 2019

Wooden Summer, Wooden September, Wooden Dessert
Acrylic Gouache on Paper

Self Portrait, 2021

Self Portrait, 2021
Personal Work

Water Soluble Crayon, Cut Paper, Colored Pencil, Digital

The Creative Compass

The Creative Compass, 2020
Personal Work / Blog Post Illustrations

Oil Pastel, Colored Pencil, Digital

Balancing Acts

The Juggler
Night Ride
Blocks

Personal Work
Mixed Media on Japanese B5 Envelopes

Let's Dance, in Bloom

Personal Work, 7x10"

Colored Pencil on Paper & Digital

Seven Celebrations

Illustration for Seven Celebrations, a 7-week drawing challenge put together by Danielle Duer, Meera Patel, and myself to celebrate the small things in life during the time of Coronavirus.

They include: Beginnings, Movement, Our World, Feast, Let's Dance, Illuminate, and New Moon.

Morning, Tiny Paw

8x12" Acrylic Gouache on Arches Hot Press, 2020

Inspiration: During a 'morning' themed life drawing session, the task was to create a drawing using our non-dominant hand. I loved the resulting gesture drawing - it had so much movement and life to it, so I pushed it further into a painting. As I am missing my dog so much these days (he is in the US, I am in Japan), I had to add him (and his tiny paw) to this morning painting.

Celia

Ballet Performance Poster
Self-Initiated Project, 2020

Inspiration: I'd been watching ballet performances online and one featured a dancer with wide flowing pants. As she moved, the pants seemed a secondary character, flowing as an afterthought of her movement.
I used a long sheet of painted packing paper, rolled it up and gold tipped the ends. The shirt or bodice is a cut acrylic paint tube, and the feet are old wooden fishing lures I found at a flea market in Osaka. The drawing was done in ink and compiled digitally. Celia is not an actual performance, but an ode to an elderly woman who lived on my street when I was a child. She gave me fresh flowers and large rolls of paper to draw on. The Brody Theatre was named after my childhood dog who lived to be almost 18!

3-D Rolled Paper, acrylic, ink, photography, digital

How To Make Friends With A Ghost

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A GHOST
Published by Tundra Books, 2017

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"What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favorite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow these few simple steps and the rest of the essential tips in HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A GHOST, you'll see how a ghost friend will lovingly grow up and grow old with you. A whimsical story about ghost care, Rebecca Green's debut picture book is a perfect combination of offbeat humor, quirky and sweet illustrations, and the timeless theme of friendship."Illustrations: Gouache and Colored Pencil on Bristol Paper

A Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of 2017 pick

Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design Â– Children

"Green's picture-book debut is a guidebook that will be useful for anyone lucky enough to meet a ghost. . . . A solid guidebook to shelve with similar tomes on caring for monsters, trolls, fairies, dragons, and the like." —Kirkus Reviews

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A GHOST Song - Emily Arrow

A lovely song from Emily Arrow!

Ink Drawings

Assorted Ink Drawings
Dr. Martin's Ink & Nib, 2019/2020

Bakeanoid

For QUARANOIDS

Bakeanoid

"This Quaranoid™ is doubling down on a more sedentary lifestyle by carbloading. She used to use her oven as a pantry but now she has it on three seven five twenty four seven. White, wheat, rye, brioche, naan, ciabatta, sourdough - you name it, she'll knead it."

6x6" Digital, Pencil Sketch

Croquet Ball

Penfield Children's Center
23rd Annual Croquet Ball Poster
Commission by Cramer-Krasselt Agency

26x40", Goauche, Colored Pencil, Pan Pastel, & Neocolor Crayons on Fawn Arches Paper

Winter's Eve

ART HOUSE
Poetic Winter Group Exhibition Postcard, 2019
Osaka, Japan

Gouache on Smooth Paper, 7.75 x 10.5"
+ Process Sketches

Coot

Coot Animation

Little Animation Test of a coot diving in the water of the Yodo River.

Jane Goodall

The Great Cape Breton Escape

Gouache, Colored Pencil, Graphite on Paper
11 x 14", 2017

Process tests and sketches included.

Sundrop

Sundrop, 2018

Gouache, Colored Pencil, Neocolor Crayons on Arches

Process + Sketches

Studies, preliminary drawings, and sketches for personal projects and client work.

Green Parade

Gouache on Paper

4 x 6", 2019

Kidlit 4 Climate

Kidlit4Climate Campaign, 2019
Pencil, Digital Coloring

This campaign created by illustrator Emma Reyolds invites children's authors and illustrators to visually and virtually strike in solidarity with today's youth, who are demanding policy changes for Climate Change.

Illustoria

Cover and Feature Story for Illustoria, "A Magazine for Creative Kids and their Grown-ups" 2018

Illustration: Gouache, Colored Pencil, and Digital Editing

Rain

Girls Above the Fruit Shoppe

Personal Work, 2016

Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11x14

Emogene Blue

Personal work created for 'IN BOX', group exhibition at Giant Robot, LA. Curated by Audrey Kawasaki, 2015

Emogene Blue

Treasures untold cost
A speckle of gold
If you buy them
From Emogene Blue.

She cleans off the mold
And the dirt and the old
But doesn't deal
In anything new.

On the East side of town
The girl can be found
Sat amidst her
Treasures for sale.

You can buy by the pound
Or a piled up mound,
But she'll get you
To buy without fail.

In snowflake and bloom
(Except on full moon)
She'll be selling
Her treasures untold.

For Emogene Blue
Wouldn't know what to do
If there weren't anything
Scavenged or old.

Foodies

Illustration for the Foodies Exhibition at Light Grey Art Lab, 2018

Gouache, Colored Pencil and Neocolor Crayon on Arches.

The Crane Wives

Album Cover for Foxlore,2016

Album Cover for Coyote Stories, 2015

Original artwork 10x20" Gouache and Colored Pencil on Paper

Album Artwork for The Crane Wives, 2015

10x20" Gouache and Colored Pencil on Paper

In the Hills of Melgadine

Personal work for the Group Exhibition 'SUPERUNNATURAL' at Giant Robot, March 2016.

12x16, Gouache, Acrylic, and Colored Pencil on Panel