Pencil Portrait - for the pure pleasure!

Pencil Portrait just for the fun of it!

While teaching figure illustration to teens, I worked up this illustration of my husband Bill giving his all in a local race. It's one thing to draw a pretty picture of someone, quite another to capture an emotion!

Pencil Private Commission

A piece of "fan art" I did of Maggie Smith in the role of the Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey.

Pencil Portrait. Must have been a Monday!

An illustration of a teenage art student of mine, Hannah Kanze-Eaton using the poem of another teenage student of mine, "My Identity" by Marika Adamopoulos. Thanks girls!

Rapidograph pen on Bristol board. Originally drawn for a book for the International Correspondence Institute in Belgium.

Rapidograph Pen on Bristol Board. Originally drawn for a book for the International Correspondence Institute, Belgium.

Pencil Drawing I did while teaching a class to teens called, "It's All About the Food" where we set out to draw and paint in the local fooderies in Plymouth, MA.

Pen and Ink illustration on Bristol Board for book titled, ADRIFT, by Brian Murphy. Available in May 2018

Here is the completed map ready for publishing in the book, ADRIFT by Brian Murphy. Due out in 2018

Pen and ink illustration for book, ADRIFT, by Brian Murphy due out in 2018.

Completed illustration with text. Family tree of Thomas Nye the sole survivor in a shipwreck in 1856. For the book ADRIFT by Brian Murphy due out in 2018

Pen and ink illustration of various vessels in the mid-1800s. Drawn for the book, ADRIFT, by Brian Murphy due out in 2018.

Illustration of the trek of WWII Pilot Leon Crane, after his plane crashed in the Alaskan Wilderness. Created for the book, "81 Days Below Zero" by my friend Brian Murphy. It made it to the NYTimes Bestseller List! Congrats to Brian and Toula! Pen and Ink on Bristol Board.

This is a little street in the town of my brother-in-law. My family fell in love with this place, especially in the early morning, sitting outside a cafe with a cafe au lait and a choco croissant!

Rapidograph Pen on Bristol Board. Originally drawn for a series of limited edition prints and postcards of Foxboro, MA.

The original was done for a series of limited edition, signed prints. Rapidograph pen on Bristol Board.

The original was done for a series of limited edition, signed prints. Rapidograph pen on Bristol Board.

Rapidograph Pen on Bristol Board. Originally drawn to accompany an article in the Detroit News' Sunday Magazine about wildlife that survived within the city

Pencil Drawn for the purpose of teaching a Wildlife class to teens

Rapidgraph Pen on Bristol Board.

Rapidograph Pen on Bristol Board. Originally drawn to accompany an article in the Detroit News' Sunday Magazine about wildlife that survived within the city limits.

Gretchan's daughter passed away in a freak accident. She struggled for meaning in daily life, until she had a vision... Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. Illustration for the book, "I Am The Rainbow" by Gretchan Pyne.

After her four-year-old daughter passed away, Gretchan was finding it difficult to sleep, until she had a vision... Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. Illustration for the book, "I Am The Rainbow" by Gretchan Pyne.