Gennaro's Xmas Gift

This is a christmas gift I made for my cousin Gennaro.  It's a small garbage can for his room.  I know it may sound silly giving someone a garbage can as a present, but his mother is a huge fan of hand painted things, and I have overheard her say numerous times how she wanted one for his room.  Sorry for the shitty pictures, I have to learn how to take better ones!

Bah Humbug?

It's hard to get into the Christmas Spirit sometimes.  And while I do enjoy Christmas eve and Christmas day, I hate the days and even weeks leading up to it.  Everyone is out and about causing traffic and crowds everywhere!  It's been taking me an hour and a half to drive home from work every night because of it (my house is only 22 miles from my job).  Even doing something as simple as food shopping within the weeks before Christmas is a real pain in the butt!  Here is an illustration I made about how I feel about the holidays.  Hopefully I'll get out of this funk soon...only a week to go!

Gennaro Eugene

This is a painting I did for my cousin, Lynn's, baby shower.  She was having a baby boy and already had his name picked out.  I actually did this painting over two years ago, a full year before I even started this blog, so I never had the chance to post it.  As much as I love painting traditional paintings like this, I don't get the chance to do this that often.  Her favorite animal is a turtle, and she has a crazy little boxer named Bella, so I tried to incorporate Bella's personality into the turtle.  Gennaro is now two and a half years old, and this painting is still on the wall of his bedroom!

Happy Birthday!

Today is my birthday.  Not just any ol' birthday, but my 30th birthday.  I've been dreading this day for months now!  Even though I don't look it, and still get carded when buying lottery tickets, I am having somewhat of a hard time accepting the fact that I am now in my 30's.  Here is an illustration I did of some cupcakes to try and celebrate the death of my twenties.  I wasn't going to add the type on top, but I recently downloaded a new font from fontspace.com named KG Lego House, and was dying to use it!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  

More ipad drawings!

Here are some more ipad Paper 53 drawings I did while watching tv.  

Hurricane Sandy

Anyone who hasn't heard, Hurricane Sandy swept across NJ on October 30th and destroyed almost everything in it's path.  It left a lot of people with out power, myself included, who was without power for 10 days.  One way I prepared myself for this hurricane was to go grocery shopping three days before.  While I was there I saw these cute little pumpkins and realized that it was almost halloween and I totally forgot about getting a pumpkin!  I picked one up with intents that I would paint it if the power went out.  Well our power did go out and within moments I lit a bunch of candles and painted this by candle light.  I had so much fun!  Since the power was out, there was nothing to distract me, like tv or internet, or my cell phone, so I was really able to enjoy it.  If I realized that I was going to be without power for so long I would have picked up a few more, but instead I spent the rest of my 10 days knitting and trying not to be grumpy.  I will be posting some of my knitting projects once I stop being lazy.