I just completed a new hidden picture puzzle for Jennifer Newbold, a client who plans to send it out with her Christmas cards this year. All the hidden items are things that have meaning for her family this year. I didn’t get an explanation for all of them, but for one example, the family took a special trip to Canada this summer. So, she wanted to hide a Canadian flag.
As always, I am open for commissions.
Here’s another vector illustration for children’s magician, Jimmy Joza. It will be printed on an 18-inch silk. It goes with the previous butterfly illustration and will be a prop in his act. He originally had another caterpillar image he was going to use for this, but he encountered some problems with the size and vibrance of that image. So, he decided to come back and commission me to draw a whole new caterpillar to use instead.
Because the butterfly was drawn in the style of the original caterpillar, this new caterpillar is also drawn in the same style. So as not to step on the previous artist’s intellectual property, this one uses an entirely different pose, a bit of a different face, different expression, different back spots, and a different approach to the construction of the body.
It was a really fun one to work on.
I recently completed a little illustration for children’s magician, Jimmy Joza. This butterfly was drawn in Adobe Illustrator. (Yes, I can work with vectors!) He plans to have it printed on a 36-inch silk and use as a prop in his act. He has an existing caterpillar image he plans to print on another silk, and he wanted me to match the art style of that one so that it was clear the two images were the same character. He also had a sample butterfly with rainbow colors that he wanted me to use as a color scheme for the wings. Here’s what I came up with!
This is the last image from a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. This is in the morning by the Sea of Galilee. After Jesus had helped his disciples catch a miraculously large haul of fish (153 of them!) they roasted some and lounged around on the beach eating a breakfast of bread and fish.
Image 8 in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. After his resurrection, Jesus met two disciples on the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
This is the seventh image in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. He’s alive again! Here we have Jesus resurrected and interacting with Mary Magdalene outside his open tomb.
Here’s another sad one. Image six of nine in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum shows the preparation of Jesus’ body after his crucifixion. The men are Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Image five of nine in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. After Jesus’ crucifixion, his mother and a few other women who loved him came to see him. It is a very sad scene, with the heavy clouds in the distance adding to the mood. The client specifically wanted this scene to be viewed from behind Jesus and looking down towards the women. That was both to obscure the most gruesome aspects of a crucifixion (this is a children’s illustration, after all) and to focus on the women’s overwhelming grief. We chose to also make the sky match the mood of the mourners.
This is the fourth image in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. At the Last Supper, Jesus insists on washing Peter’s feet despite Peter’s protests that he shouldn’t. It shows the importance Jesus placed on humility and service.
This is image three for a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. This is where Jesus performs the miracle of resurrecting Lazarus. The two women are Lazarus’ sisters.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 