Bunny Post #11 - Surprise!

The Egg Artist © Diana Ting Delosh Ink & Watercolor

Sometimes when you least expect it, your work surprises you.

Bunny Egg Artist design is available as an Easter card in my store, www.gcuniverse.com/dianascards.

Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb 17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 11 Bunny Posts down and 4 more hopping up. Happy 11th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

Bunny Post #10 - Hare with Laptop

Hare with Laptop © Diana Ting Delosh Ink & Watercolor
Detail from illustration used on a self promotion postcard announcing my Illustration Website.

I have to make like this hare and get to work on my latest Picture Book dummy venture. Sometimes I draft the whole story first than thumbnail than draft etc. This time around I find I'm doodling, then outlining, than sketching than back to scribbling words. My text isn't ready for me to type up yet  but the art is taking shape in a very rough form. Working in a random pattern rather than linear. Not saying one method is better than the other, just that this is how my current project is unfolding.

Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb 17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 10 Bunny Posts down and 5 more hopping up. Happy 10th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

Bunny Post #9 Baking Bunnies

Baking Bunnies, ink & watercolor, © Diana Ting Delosh
Kitchen Calamities ensue when this family bakes together. 

Currently I'm working on another Picture Book* idea; drafting the story and trying to decide what animal characters to use. The only thing I know for sure is that it will have an animal characters. They will be clothed and there are some cooking/baking scenes and of course baked goods. The question remains what type of animals? Rabbits as in the above illustration? Bears? Cats? Squirrels? Will have to mull this over in my sketch book.


*I'm participating in the #PBdummy challenge over at the KidLitArt blog. Read more about the challenge HERE - scroll down to the 1/4/11 post.


Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb 17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 9 Bunny Posts down and 6 more hopping up. Happy 9th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

BakingBunnies Art Prints by Diana Delosh - Shop Canvas and Framed Wall Art Prints at Imagekind.com

Bunny Post #8 -UGH!

UGH © Diana Ting Delosh In & Watercolor

Sometimes things just don't work the way you want them too.

Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb 17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 8 Bunny Posts down and 7 more hopping up. Happy 8th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

IF: REVERSE & Bunny Post #7

REVERSE © Diana Ting Delosh Pen sketch

This is a quickie ball point pen sketch for this weeks IllustrationFriday prompt, REVERSE. If you're not going forward, you may be going in reverse. On the otherhand there are many times I wish I could hit REVERSE and UNDO a few OOPS. Here's to moving forward to better times and reversing our misfortunes.

Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb 17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 7 Bunny Posts down and 8 more hopping up. Happy 7th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

Bunny Post #6 -Yah

Amy, Crow & Yah - ©Diana Ting Delosh - Ink & Watercolor

Yes - it's a stuffed toy bunny, but it still counts as a bunny.   When I was very young my favorite stuffed animal was a yellow bunny that I called Yah. Leap over to my portfolio at http://dianadelosh.com.


Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. 6 Bunny Posts down and 9 more hopping up. Happy 6th day of the Year of the Rabbit.

Bunny Post #5 - Dream Hare

Dream Hare © Diana Ting Delosh Ink & Watercolor

Hare dreams of growing wings and flying to the moon.

Here's to dreaming big.

Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb17th to celebrate the Chinese New Year. 5 Bunny Posts down and 10 more hopping up. Happy 5th day of the Year of the Rabbit. 

Dream Hare is available as a New Year, Birthday and Note cards at www.gcuniverse.com/dianascards. You may change the inside greetings of any card to suit your needs.

Bunny Post #4 - Animal Characters

Mother Hare & Fern Painting in the Garden
© Diana Ting Delosh
Ink & Watercolor

My friends and family frequently appear in my art as animals. I find basing my characters on someone grounds them, makes them distinctive. The costuming of the characters and the subtle gestures, poses bring a character, human or animal to life. My Mother Hare and Fern characters are based on my mom and my daughter, Renee and the overflowing lush setting is my mom's garden. We illustrators set the stage and cast, costume and direct the actors. Our illustrations are the play.

FYI: This illustration is available as an art print MHare & Fern  at wingedrabbit.imagekind.com and as Mother Hare & Fern - Note at gcuniverse.com/dianascards.com

4 Bunny Posts down and 11 more hopping up. Posting bunnies from February 3rd - Feb17th.  Wishing all a prolific, productive and prosperous Year of the Rabbit.

Bunny Post #3 -Hare or Tortoise

Tortoise/Hare

ink & watercolor

© Diana Ting Delosh

Slow and steady like the tortoise or fast and in leaps and bounds like the hare? As an artist I'd like to be steady and reliable like the tortoise but create fast and reach new creative heights like the hare.


Happy 3rd day of the Year of the Rabbit.  3 Bunnies posted, 12 more to come. A bunny post a day (from February 3rd to February 17th) for hoppiness in 2011.

Bunny Post #2 -Wormy Apple

Yuck!

© Diana Ting Delosh

ink & watercolor

This is an illustration from Bunny Apples,  my picture book dummy and manuscript that I'm currently shopping around to the publishers. I've got all my fingers and toes crossed for this one. Hop over to my portfolio at dianadelosh.com to see more.

Happy 2nd day of the Year of the Rabbit.  2 Bunnies posted, 13 more to come. A bunny post a day (from February 3rd to February 17th) makes the bad luck go away.

Happy Year of the Rabbit! - let the Bunny Posts begin!

Robed Hare

© Diana Ting Delosh

Ink & Watercolor

Wishing all a Hoppy, Creative, Prolific and Prosperous 2011!

To Leap into the Year of the Rabbit I'm going to post a Bunny a day for the first two weeks of the Chinese New Year. Starting today Feb 3 - Feb 17th -  that's 14 bunnies plus 1 for good luck! Here's Bunny Post #1.

This hare brained idea was cooked up between Me and my illustrator friends, Ginger  and Mark . We'll also be posting bunnies on the IllustrationBoard Facebook site. 2 ways to Join in the fun by commenting and sharing a link to your blog's bunny post for me to see and OR Posting your bunny pix on the Illustration Board's FB page. 

FYI: this illustration is available: 

as a Giclée Print - wingedrabbit.imagekind.com

various Greeting Card Designs: gcuniverse.com/dianascards

on Nifty Stuff: zazzle.com/deloshdesigns*  

Happy Groundhog's Day 2011

Groundhog Awakes!

© Diana Ting Delosh

ink & watercolor

It's been so brutally cold and snowy this winter that I want to believe in the power of groundhogs. According to news reports, Puxatawny Phil did not see his shadow which means spring will come early. YAY! Happy February 2nd -Groundhog's Day!

Tomorrow February 3rd is the start of Chinese New Year, The Year of the Rabbit. To celebrate I'll attempt to post a  rabbit illustration a day for the first 2 - weeks of the Chinese New Year. Having 14 bunny illos isn't a problem - after all I am the the Hare - it's the daily posting that may bamboozle me. That and the fact that I'll be on call for jury duty for part of this period. I guess I better plan ahead to post.

Fellow artists: I hope you'll join me by posting your own bunny images on your respective blogs. Let's make it a Hoppy 2011.

Judy Adamson's Art and Design blog: Guest Post by Illustrator/Author Diana Ting Delosh...

Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my friend and fellow GCU and Zazzle artist, Judy Adamson. Please click on the link below to jump to her blog and read the interview.

Judy Adamson's Art and Design blog: Guest Post by Illustrator/Author Diana Ting Delosh...: "Our guest post this week is an 'email interview' with Diana Ting Delosh, illustrator and author, whose work I have very much admired ever s..."

IF: CHICKEN

CHICK CHAT

© Diana Ting Delosh

ink & watercolor

Here's my illustration for this week's Illustration Friday prompt - CHICKEN. It's an oldie but it fits and it still makes me smile.

CHICK CHAT is my homage to my days as a production artist in what was then called the stable. I miss the comraderie of those days. I don't miss the insane deadlines but wait as a freelance/independent artist I still encounter insane deadlines. Originally this illustration was a design that I had submitted to  several greeting card companies that I freelanced for. They all passed on it - but I still believed in this design. Today you can find it as an Easter card in my store - greetingcarduniverse.com/dianascards

Ta Dah! The Art Hare's Wares Blog Opening.

Grand opening - my new blog - THE ART HARE'S WARES. This blog will focus on my whimsical and elegant art  that is available for purchase in my:
• Card Store at greetingcarduniverse.com/dianascards
• Gift  Store at zazzle.com/deloshdesigns*
• Giclée Print Gallery at wingedrabbit.imagekind.com
As well as any other news of my art and writing when they're available in a retail way.

Having this other blog where I can feel free to hawk my wares will allow me to keep the focus in this blog on the creative journey/process. This way I won't be turning off the editor with my hawking and the fan looking to see if they can buy my art as a print won't be bored silly with my post about the submission process or tutorial about making a soft bound dummy or any of my other artsy interests. Different blog posts for different folks.

I'm hoping that having this other blog will help me to ramp up my promotion which will result in increased sales. And if this experiment in art sale promotion works  -I'll report it here.

If: RESOLUTIONS!

Bunny Resolutions

© Diana Ting Delosh

Bunny's Resolutions for 2011 starts with number 1: To be hoppy. 

Here is my illustration for IllustrationFriday.

My resolutions for 2011 are a little less simplistic. 

I have decided to put the focus back on creating art/writing 

and submitting projects/samples on a regular basis. Of course  - I still have to continue to tweak, network and  all that stuff.

Here's wishing all a very 

Happy

Creative

Productive

and Prosperous

2011! 

Illustration Friday: Winter!

SNOWMAN

© Diana Ting Delosh

Ink & Watercolor

Br-r-r-r it's cold and blustery outside. Even the snowman is wearing a hat and scarf. Here's my entry for this weeks Illustration Friday prompt - Winter. Please visit my website.

I'm staying indoors away from all this wintry weather, making a list of things I want to try or do in 2011. One thing on the list is to post weekly if not more frequently on this blog. Another is to create more.

NOEL!

Noel

Ink & Watercolor

Christmas Card

© Diana Ting Delosh

Just wanted to wish all a very Merry Christmas before I got tripped up by my own holiday preparations!

Illustration Friday: MAIL!

Post Office

Ink & Watercolor

© Diana Ting Delosh

Here's my illustration for this week's IF prompt: MAIL.

It's a busy day at the Greenhaven Post office. The clerks are doing their best but despite there best efforts there's quite a line forming. Can you spot my alter ego with an arm load of proposals and art samples to mail off to the publishers? 

Speaking of Mail, I better get cracking on my Christmas Cards or they'll be late! 

Seasons Greetings to All!

YAY - I completed PiBoIdMo!

Yay I'm a PiBoIdMo 2010 winner and I can proudly display my badge for all to see. I came up with 31 Picture book ideas in November. The last one came to me right before the stroke of midnight on November 30th - but it's still right in there. Now I have to admit it was a bit of touch and go where I wasn't sure if I'd hang in as November was an extremely hectic month for me. Which is why I'm so happy to announce that I tried it and completed the challenge!

Interestingly some of my picture book ideas are things I'd want to research and write about but may not want to illustrate myself and there are of course a few that are based on characters I've doodled or are spin offs of my latest PB dummy and manuscript. I'm also happy that I jotted them down on index cards as now I can sort them by type: fiction, concept, non-fiction and further categorize them by whether I want to illustrate them or just write the manuscript. Hopefully all of this sorting will help me decide which will be my next project.