A beautiful day for a bike ride

Image 3/Book of Blessings. A carefree bike riding kind of day....

Flippy Flapjacks

Image 2/Book of Blessings. It's Saturday. The perfect day to get your flapjack on. I freaking love pancakes. And coffee runs through my veins...keeps my heart pumpin'...Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! ~SW

Book Of Blessings/75 Graces From Around The World

In the fall I illustrated a book called Book of Blessings for Running Press/Perseus and it will be out March 25! It's available on Amazon, most likely Barnes and Noble and hopefully cute mom and pop bookstores as well. I think one of my favorite things about this book is it's size. It's 2.9 x 3.4 inches. I just can't take it. So tiny! Anyway, in honor of spring I'll post a page from the book each day for the next 30 days because I'm REALLY grateful for getting through the winter and seeing little buds on the trees. This book touches on just that, feeling grateful and content with what you have. Through age old proverbs and prayers from all around the world it sends a message of enjoying the simple things in life like good food, nature and the people you love. Pretty neat. Below is the first page I'm sharing. Sometime soon I will also be selling some of the images in my Etsy shop along with some possible tote bags. Stay tuned!

Happy St. Pat's Day!!!!

This one's for my Grandpa, Paul McDermott. I'll always miss him.

Happy St. Patrick's Day Grandpa :)

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. :)