What's he doing?

Been really working on mum's first Anansi book when not dealing with house, kids , hubby and dogs and yes in that order lol. Here is a little preview of a spot illustration I did for one of the pages before the story starts. There has been some questions about what is going on. Can you tell :)
I have painted this digitally in Painter with digital watercolour and then touching it up in photoshop.

Anansi causing trouble

Here is one of the book sketches I mention:) Anansi is a little spider who is a trickster or more plainly a trouble maker. In another post one day I will write a bit about Anansi (Anancy) and his history.
The background to this scene - anansi has caused the roster to crow before dawn. The dog has just come to gossip telling them that the master wants to put the errant rooster in the pot. He is off spreading the juicy news while fowl react in various ways it.

A.M. bloom

I just love this card. Maybe it is the weather - it is has started out really crappy today - and this card just brightens my day that I wish I had it and could stick it up on my wall and look at it. Now this is the parts that urks me - It isn't even my stamp (line art)...ack!!! Micki from artfulxpressions did a super fantastic job on Lindsay's Stamp Stuff (yeah she is a pretty talented artist too :) )

Can't believe it is Friday already. Spent most the week sketching anansi - the spider I bring up once in a while. It is 7am here, illustrator is up and running and I am torn between finishing the anansi sketches (I got 7 more sketches to do for the main story) or finishing my clipart sets I started last week. ahh decisions and moods.

P.s. I want one of those nice signature thingies that are at the bottom of people's blog post. Where to get one.

a little angry spider

Spent the week doing a couple sketches for a book to most likely hit the press this time next year... yes it is a bit early to put pencil to paper but when the mood it hits it is a good thing to grab it. But even with all good intentions my pace was rather slow and hampered in someways the monsters were home two days this week and the youngest is still very mummy oriented at 4yrs. Anyway here is a preview of a sketch. The little spider is annoyed that his web has been broken. Well off to either work on more sketches, contemplate how to colour them or be cinderella to the monsters.