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Making Art Everyday 2020

This year, I’m participating in the Making Art Everyday challenge hosted by Lisa Bardot of Bardot Brush. Here are some of my favorite pieces I’ve made during the challenge — you can see all of them over on Instagram in my #makingarteveryday story highlights.

These were all drawn/painted in Procreate, so you might be interested in checking out my Procreate resources, where I’m collecting everything useful I can think of for using the app, in general and also specifically for children’s book illustration.

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#makingarteveryday Days 41-47: Chicken+Surfing, Hippo+Makeup, Octopus+Cooking, Gorilla+Ballet, Otter+Kissing, Koala+Crying, and Frog+Painting — This started out as a way to combine the octopus and gorilla prompts and (hahaha) save time. As it took longer and longer, I kept adding each day’s prompt in, and so I figured I’d just put the chicken and hippo in too even though I’d already painted those prompts. I will never look at super detailed picture book illustrations and not think of the effort that went into them again. #somuchplayfood But the kiddo enjoyed suggesting play food and silly places to put it, so we had a good time with this one. #makingarteveryday2020 #makingart #illustrationartists #illustratorsoninstagram #womenillustrators #womenofillustration #childrensillustration #childrensillustrators #childrensillustrator #picturebookart #picturebookartist #kidlitart #kidlitartist #scbwi #scbwiwwa #scbwiillustrators #procreateart #procreateillustration #procreateartist #procreate5 #digitalillustration #digitalillustrator #digitalillustrations #playfood #playkitchen #playroom #playroomdecor #stuffedanimals

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#makingarteveryday 42/366: Hippo + Makeup — swipe for the timelapse #makingart #makingarteveryday #makingarteveryday2020 #ipadart #ipadartist #ipadartists #procreateapp #procreateart #procreateartist #digitalartist #procreate #digitaldrawingn #digitalpaint #digitalartwork #digitalillustration #digitalsketch #hippo #hippopotamus #hippos #hipposofinstagram #zoo #zooanimals #childrensillustration #kidlitart #kidlitartist #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa

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#makingarteveryday 41/365: Chicken + Surfing — swipe for two other concepts I sketched for the prompt + the timelapse of this one #makingart #makingarteveryday #makingarteveryday2020 #ipadart #ipadartist #ipadartists #procreateapp #procreateart #procreateartist #digitalartist #procreate #digitaldrawing #digitalpaint #digitalartwork #digitalillustration #digitalsketch #chickensofinstagram #chickenart #crowdsurfing #crowdsurf

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#makingarteveryday 25/365: Lemonade (illustrated recipe) — I went meta and depicted illustrating a recipe for sparkling rosemary lemonade on my deck in the summer time. Which would be much nicer than my current summer deck-less and sparkling rosemary lemonade-less status. Swipe for two process videos! #makingarteveryday2020 #procreate5 #procreateanimation #procreateillustration #foodillustration #foodillustrator #foodillustrations #procreatepainting #ipadart #ipadproart #ipadartist #scbwi #scbwiwwa #ipaddrawing #applepencil #applepencilart #lemonade🍋 #lemonadeday #artistatwork #procreatetimelapse #bardotbrush #bardotbrushmarkers

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#makingarteveryday 23/365: Chicken Noodle Soup — I had a much grander battle planned, with Captain Cluck slicing off a tentacle from the Noodle Kraken and sending it falling into the brothy waves, and chicken sailors escaping in a celery stick rowboat, but painting those noodles was haaaaaard and took up most of my time. So one lone chicken has escaped in a carrot slice life preserver. #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreateart #procreate5 #procreateillustration #ipadart #scbwi #scbwiwwa #scbwiillustrators #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidsillustration #childrensbookillustrator #chickenart #foodillustration #foodillustrator #chickennoodlesoup

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#makingarteveryday 22/365: Sandwich Recipe #makingarteveryday2020 #procreateart #procreate5 #procreatedrawing #procreateillustration #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa ##kidlitillustration #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidillustration #childrensbookillustration #childrensillustration #womenofillustration #constructionsite #foodillustration #hummusaddict #hummuslover #hummusrecipe #sandwichesofinstagram

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#makingarteveryday 21/365: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe — swipe for the whole image! #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreateillustration #procreate5 #bardotbrushes #bardotbrush #bardotbrushpencilbox #ipadart #digitalillustration #digitalillustrator #scbwi #scbwiwwa #kidlitart #kidlitartist #foodillustration #chocolatechipcookies #chocolatechips #cookies🍪 #trainart #toytrain

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#makingarteveryday 19/365: Jelly Jar #makingarteveryday2020 #procreate5 #procreateart #ipadart #digitalpainting #sealifeart #jellyfishart #jellyfishes #jellies #seacreatures #seacreature

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#makingarteveryday 17/365: Candy Barre…oh wait, we were supposed to draw a candy BAR. That makes sooooo much more sense. (Sorry…the cats took the day off when they saw there was nowhere to hide in this one.) #makingarteveryday2020 #procreateart #procreatedrawing #procreateillustration #ipadart #ipadillustration #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidillustration #candyart #foodillustration #balletbarre #balletart #peppermints #danceart

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#makingarteveryday 16/365: Soup Can — it’s been snowy this week here in Seattle, so when the randomly-generated palette I picked for today had this nice icy blue in it, it’s no surprise that the season changed as I worked. #makingarteveryday2020 #procreate #procreateart #procreate5 #procreateillustration #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidillustration #childrensbookillustration #childrensillustration #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa #snowday❄️ #snowdays

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#makingarteveryday 15/365: Cereal Box (featuring Blue from my book @oldtracksnewtricks 🚂)…this was super fun for so many reasons! Hidden cat count: three (good luck!) #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreate5 #procreatetimelapse #procreateillustration #ipadart #ipadartist #ipadproart #digitalart #woodentrain #oldtracksnewtricks #scbwi #scbwiwwa #scbwiillustrators #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #kidillustration #childrensbooks #picturebookillustration #cerealbox #arttimelapse

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#makingarteveryday 13/365: Milk Carton — swipe for the funniest time lapse I’ve made yet! (Moooooooo) #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreate #procreateart #procreatedrawing #procreatelettering #procreatetimelapse #procreate5 #ipaddrawing #ipadprocreate #ipadproart #ipadart #ipadlettering #digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalillustration #gardenart #gardenlife #seedstarting #milkcarton #plantart

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#makingarteveryday 9/365: Ice Cream Sundae (featuring the return of my Apple Pencil! 😂) #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreate #procreateart #procreatedrawing #procreate5 #procreateillustration #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa #kidlitart #childrensillustration #catart #catillustration #icecreamsundae #icecreamtime #icecreamlove #foodillustration #foodillustrator #foodpainting

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#makingarteveryday 7/365: Pie — when we got the twins, Quill came with the name Peanut because he was only a fraction of the size of Ace and their sister when they were rescued. As he grew after coming home with us, when he’d curl into a little ball, I’d call him Potato…then Sweet Potato…and now Sweet Potato Pie. (His big brother, meanwhile, went quickly to Pumpkin and then Pumpkin Pie.) What else could I draw today? #mae #makingarteveryday2020 #procreate #procreateart #procreate5 #procreateapp #procreateillustration #procreatepainting #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #kidartist #kidillustration #kidillustrations #catart #catsleeping #sweetpotatopie #rescuecatsofinstagram #catillustration #catpainting

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#makingarteveryday 6/365: Popsicle — swipe for timelapse to see how indecisive I was about the style for this one! #makingarteveryday2020 #mae #procreate #procreateart #procreatedrawing #procreatepainting #procreateillustration #procreate5 #procreateapp #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa #scbwiwwaart #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidillustration #kidillustrations #catillustration #catbrothers #cattwins #tabbycatsofinstagram

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#makingarteveryday 3/365 (and 4/365 and 5/365): Salad (and Smoothie and Broccoli because this was taking more time than I had for all three this weekend so I cheated 😂) #makingarteveryday2020 #foodillustration #saladlove #kidscooking #kidsinthekitchen #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #scbwiwwa #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitartists #procreate5 #procreateapp #procreatedrawing #procreateillustration #womenillustrators

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