Rejection + Hurt Ego = Fun Self Promotion Piece!

So at the end of 2014 I scored a kick ass magazine cover gig from one of the coolest international mags ever. I'm a HUGE fan of this magazine I shall not nameth. After I submitted my piece and all was said and done I get an e-mail a month later from a very heart broken and nice AD  that they chose a different cover AFTER it was approved....and I was mad. And a tad bit bummed. She went to bat for me but sometimes that's just how the pancakes flops....on the floor...and then your dog eats it. So after I got over my mild rage ;) I decided I was glad I did the piece and thought it would make a fun self promo piece! We gotta roll with the punches in this free-lancin', free-stylin' bizzzz sometimes. This is part of the process of building thick skin, which is pretty much necessary for survival in the independent artist world. Hey, ya never know, maybe, just maybe I can get another shot at working with this awesome mag in the future and the pancake might flop in my favor :) 

~Sarah W.

A closer crop of the indoor activities that strange geo-prism future girls do in their spare time. 

A Leopard Can Indeed Change his Spots....according to this fun little movie I made

This is old school picture taking and then compiling it in iMovie with a a little song from my omnichord. Oscar material I'm telling you ;) Watch out Pixar...I'm a coming for you. yeah....Doing this one minute video gave me a huge appreciation for what REAL animators do. Unreal.....That said, I liked my little story. 

February love

I decided to so some Valentine's just for the heck of it. I love painting. It's so therapeutic. And yes, the coffee one is derived from personal experience. :)

Printsource Ad

So this is my first real year as an illustrator on the island of me. No steady paycheck....no crown room..(Hallmark's cafeteria). I eat quickly and get back down in my art dungeon these days while my little lad is in daycare 2 days of the week. This is my time to crank. The rest of the time I work at night. My husband and best friend for life is really supportive and I couldn't do this without him. No way. I appreciate all the things that he does for us. Like laundry and vacuuming, or putting Finley to bed almost every night so I can work. I've got a good one. He watched Fin last night while I made this ad for Printsource. I'm super excited about the collections I've been toiling away at. Thanks for having a look and have a good day! Gobble time is around the corner. yippee!

A Teeny Tiny Movie

Last February I filmed myself doodling the last page in a 30 page coloring book called Day Of The Dead from the Just Add Color series published by Rockport. I decided to make a little movie from it. 

Altogether I illustrated 3 books total. In addition to Day Of The Dead there's Circus (vintage creepy cool!) and Carnivale (exotic dancers and fun and weird mask people!) SO MUCH FUN. I'm very grateful for this body of work. I had a lot of creative freedom which is very rare. The books are available at Rockport.com, in your local Barnes and Noble, and Amazon to name a few. Signed copies with an original doodle are also available at my Etsy shop, Petit Reve.–Sarah W.

Naughty....

I'm bad....I didn't do a Giffy Pop this week. I felt like painting instead. Lately I have ocean fever and just want to be at the beach. But we live dead smack in the middle of the country. Alas I have to paint my ideal scenario. It's up on etsy in case you have fantasy ocean fever too. Aqua Daydreams

Spread LOVE....says the prancing alpaca!