A toad from the yard in Sister Bay, WI.
Look at those eyes! They’ve got gold lines in them.
Animal Photos
On my recent vacation we went to Door County, WI. There’s a big petting zoo called The Farm just north of Sturgeon Bay that we visited. The girls got to look at and pet the animals. I took pictures.
Illustration Friday: Robot
Robin’s Eggs
Photos from my Mother’s Yard
Raindrops
Raindrops in a Stream
I took this a few weeks ago during a light rainstorm. Unfortunately, my shutter speed (1/25 sec) wasn’t nearly fast enough to capture the ripples without blurring. Even at this size, sized for the web, the blur is apparent. That’s pretty bad. The light was too low and I was having trouble getting the image bright enough. I had the iso set at 800, but in retrospect, I should have set it even higher so I could have gotten that shutter speed up. Oh well, too late now.
Illustration Friday – Worn
Here’s a quick little sketch for Illustration Friday.
He’s worn a rut in the yard with all that pacing.
Illustration Friday: Children
I realized I’ve never posted any realistic portraits of people to this blog. So, I created this just to show I can. It’s a portrait of my daughter Katie. It’s drawn in Photoshop using a photo I took a few weeks ago as reference. This is an actual digital drawing, not a Photoshop filter trick.
It also counts for this week’s Illustration Friday prompt of Children. Well, child, anyway.
Staring at the TV
Why are you not in bed?
Photos!
You know you like photos. Here are some from around my yard yesterday. 
Does anyone know what kind of mushrooms those are?
My nearly wild roses are blooming like nuts.
Here’s what my rose arch looks like.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 