Owner: wellerwishes URL:http://www.wellerwishes.blogspot.com Join Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 15:25:16 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Wellerwishes is Kathy Weller's illustration blog. Kathy Weller is a children's illustrator, designer and pet portrait artist! Site statistics:Click here
Tagged for a fun one 2008-05-12 15:48:00 Liz at ChatRabbit tagged me for a funny, silly meme.Here are the rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book.2. Open to page 123.*3. Find the fifth sentence.**4. Post the next three sentences, so if my math is correct that’d be sentences six, seven and eight.5. Tag five people and post a comment to the blogger who tagged you. The alternate PB version is to go to page 23 and just put down the text.Her Read more:Tagged
Illustration Friday: Wide 2008-05-16 23:12:00 The Welch Corgi is a wide little dog! Well... really a l-o-n-g little dog, but he's also a little wide. So, I guess that, in the end, it all depends on how you look at him! :) Enjoy.See Pembroke Welch Corgi here. Read more:Illustration
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Creating some ACEO art pieces... 2008-05-18 16:54:00 kittylibrarian_bw_72, originally uploaded by kathy weller. And having a blast doing it! Boy they are so much fun to make, and very freeing.I will be painting in the kitty librarian in color, along with the other black and white line art ACEO's in my Flickr (click on the kitty above to get there), but I like the line art alone as well, so I thought I'd post it.I've been working! Read more:Creating
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A job opportunity in NY for the right person... 2008-05-19 16:17:00 HM Co is looking for an Art Director - Children's Design Group. The job is in Manhattan, NY. Some travel to Boston looks to be a requirement.The listing is here:-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=12231...just in case you're lookin'... Read more:person
"A Day in the life" meme 2008-05-19 12:05:00 I was tagged for this meme last week from Roz (thanks Roz, it was fun to do!) Took me awhile to post it but here she is for your reading pleasure...7:45 - 7:50 am - My husband Matt usually wakes me up. He's already fed the dogs and let me sleep. (Thanks, Matt. :))8:30 - I'm out the door to my day job (Sr. Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Sales and Marketing, Boston.com) after showering, hello hug
Are you ready for summer? 2008-05-20 23:56:00 I love love love the ocean, the beach, and sea life. Around this time of year, I start thinking about the beach. I find that just being on the beach, near the ocean, searching for sea glass, shells, or any kind of hidden treasure is such an inspiring, reinvigorating way to spend some time It's like refilling the creative gas tank. The vastness of the ocean is unending -- to me, it's like another u Read more:ready
Woe Is Knee... 2008-05-22 13:04:00 a crunchy bitI have chrondomalacia patella, which is really just your average, run of the mill, under the knee joint cartilage deterioration - very common. I have episodes of knee pain pretty frequently, but it's nothing out of the ordinary - it comes and it goes, usually does not get too bad, and I've dealt with it for years. Nothing new.Last Wednesday I noticed a flare-up starting after a longis
Whimsical Seashell Series 2008-05-24 13:37:00 Whimsical Seashell Series - Blue Topsnail - Wellerwishes Kathy Weller Illustration, originally uploaded by kathy weller. I just completed a series of four ink/watercolor paintings based on seashells. Here is one of them. Would love to hear what you think. You can see the rest of the shell pieces on my Flickr or at my Etsy shop. Happy holiday weekend to all.
Illustration Friday: Worry 2008-05-23 23:21:00 IllustrationFriday
: Worry, originally uploaded by kathy weller. This little librarian sure looks worried about that eager little kitty on the ladder!(See the black line stage of this illustration here.)
YES WAY!!!! 2008-05-25 19:17:00 Hey... Guess what I did with my holiday weekend (and there's still one whole day to go)?I completed my wellerwishes site redesign!!! Yipee!! If you are so inclined, please take a peek and let me know what you think. I would love to hear if everything is showing up as it should for you. Is it taking awhile to load? Please let me know. If there is any little weird things happening (and there is boun
Illustration Friday: Baby 2008-05-30 21:55:00 Here is a recent piece that was inspired by my friend and fellow PBJ'er Laura, who just had a little bebeh herself!! Congratulations again, Laura!!!! Read more:Illustration
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More web site revisions... 2008-06-01 00:33:00 I worked on my site tonight 'til I felt like falling down (actually, that would be right now, since I just finished. I need to go to bed!!) I'm not uploading the revisions tonight, though. I'll do that tomorrow. (I also worked on the site last night, and I uploaded one night's worth of work from last night this morning. So if you have not checked it in a couple days, you will still see some improv
The monster 2008-06-09 22:35:00 After attempting what *should* have been just an extremely minor update, my web site is now doing some very horrific things. I am trying to figure out what the problem is but it will have to wait a bit because I've been at this for hours and now I have to give it up for the night and go to bed.Please do not look at my newly redesigned (ACK!) site right now unless you would like to see the graphica
The Months is now on Looky Book and Big Universe 2008-06-06 23:33:00 I recently learned from my friend and PBJ cohort Ali that my book "The Months
" is on BigUniverse
.com. Big Universe is a site with the same functionality as Looky Book - they both allow you to flip through a (printed and published) picture book ONLINE - - start to finish, end papers, title page, grey matter, the whole shebang, AND, at a size that's eyeball-friendly, too (nice and big)! So cool. A
Web Woes, Pt. 2 2008-06-10 22:02:00 I now am concluding that the problem with my web site upload is NOT my web software but my SERVER. I use my .Mac server for my web hosting, but this is changing tomorrow because I'm moving server hosts. .Mac has been a super-flake all week -- I now theoretically attribute it to the recent news . There is no other explanation, really... well, to be fair, idisk has ALWAYS stunk truth be told, but m
I Heart Go Daddy 2008-06-12 20:27:00 Thank you, Go Daddy
, for helping me get my life -- er, um, my WEB site back!!!! Go Daddy has come to my rescue. The phone folks are very helpful -- therapeutic even. I mean, we ALL need therapy when we are desperate with a down site, do we not?? Anyway, let's raise a wacom pen or mouse in thanks to Go Daddy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I finally feel whole again. Read more:Heart
Illustration Friday: Punchline 2008-06-14 19:51:00 IllustrationFriday
: Punchline, originally uploaded by kathy weller.(Please click to see complete image.)Here is my Illustration Friday entry for the theme of Punchline. I wanted to do a visual pun for this one - it was begging for it... and the season is ripe for it! (Oh, there's another pun!)Hope you enjoy!
A special day for me... (or, my saving grace) 2008-06-26 10:18:00 Yay! Today is my birthday! I am so glad to be alive and well, and DRAWING!!! Yeah!!
I am so glad I've never stopped drawing. Drawing was always my 'best friend' - it was always my favorite thing to do. It was also always the thing I did best. It was also always the 'thing' I could do that people always most appreciated...
When I was really young kid, 9 or so, we moved to Massachusetts from Los An
Summer Apples 2008-06-25 11:29:00 I know, fall is the perfect time for apples, not summer... oh well. Today I say summer, because I wanted to post them!
My keyboard died today. RIP, keyboard. So it's off the to the Apple store to buy another.
I seem to have a keyboard-killing gene. I go through quite a few more than most folks do, I suspect. Maybe I bang on the keys too hard? Maybe I spill too many snacks? Who knows. I do clean m Read more:Summer
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Illustration Friday: Hoard 2008-06-22 01:16:00 IllustrationFriday
: Hoard
, originally uploaded by kathy weller. This lady seems to be hoarding a heart! (She kind of reminds me of Sam from "Bewitched".)
Pulse Check 2008-06-21 17:53:00 Audio CD
Kathy Griffin - For Your Consideration - You either love her or you hate her. I hope I'm not alienating anyone, but, caution to the wind! Love her. She kills me. And as much as I loved her mentor, 80's era Joan Rivers, contemporary Kathy's funnier. I hear a torch being passed!
Cards
Cartolina Cards
There is a bazillion independent card companies out there, and it's a joy to Read more:Pulse
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A pattern come to life 2008-06-19 22:46:00
Something happy came out of last week's IF illustration -- this pattern! Here's a small detail above.
I'm working hard on product art collections. The problem with starting my illustration work so late in the day is that, by bed time, I'm just starting to make headway! That accounts for my late nights -- I don't like to stop working when I'm in the zone.
I got a lot accomplished tonight. I'm p
You Lost Him At Hello Book Cover 2008-06-18 22:48:00
You Lost Him At Hello
Book Cover
, originally uploaded by kathy weller. This is a recently completed project! So exciting! The book "You Lost Him At Hello" by Jess McCann is sure to be a FANTASTIC read! It comes out this September and is published by the same folks who brought us the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" dynasty. Yuppers. It's available for pre-order on Amazon! Cool!!
Do you love the
Yah!! Computer's back!! ...And, what's up this week!! 2008-07-09 22:21:00 Time Machine worked like a charm. It's super awesome. I am so glad I use it.(Hey Mac users, it WORKS!)Ok... so back to business now. Got lots of stuff going on this week.• Finish up Henry's portrait (worked on it tonight -- almost there - it looks fantastic I have to say - if I MAY say :) :) you'll see it soon - I took pics on my iphone but for some odd reason, iphoto's not talking to my iphone Read more:Computer
Up-to-the-minute Monkey Business Update!! 2008-07-08 21:10:00 My computer is now with the Apple folks at the Apple store. They are replacing my hard drive and whatever else needs replacing. I should have it back in about four days. Four long, painful days. I'm just kidding. Isn't that great?? Because I use Time Machine backups, and I also generally work off another external for active work, I have lost no data. HALLELULIAH! or MAZEL TOV! Or any good happy ce Read more:Business
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Post-something Tuesday 2008-07-08 15:58:00 Did this last year -- as a test for Macmillan. Didn't get the assignment but hey I got some cute bears out of it. :)(ETA: Sounds like I worked for free - EEK!! I did get paid for the test work I did do for them!! :) )Computer (monkey) update : Going to the Apple store tonight to have my computer assessed.Happy Tuesday
! Read more:something
A barrel of monkeys... 2008-07-07 20:39:00 And I'm holding the banana peels! My computer is on standby... in triage. It refuses to wake up from the nice nap it began yesterday. It seems to start... then, zzzzz.I did all the 101 stuff, to no avail. Now it is on to 201...I called Apple Care. I, being an extra paranoid non-technical, 18-hour-a-day-computer-needing person, always purchase the three-year Apple Care protection plan every time I
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