This is a very cute original oval painting of a little girl wearing a cat costume and holding a human heart.
The wooden Oval shape is 4.5″ x 2.2 ” in diameter and 1/8″ thick.
Original Handmade Ornament, mounted print on wood, painted with acrylics, textured with acrylic gel paste and glazed with acrylic gold leaf paint
A cooper wire is a attached, ready to hand.
It’s only $15
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By: sketched out,
on 10/20/2010
When witches familiars, get too familiar with the equipment.
The Illustration Friday word for the week is spooky.
By: Paula Becker,
on 6/7/2010
I feel I need for some cartoon practice so I’m going to start drawing some “snippets” out of my life each day. It should give me the ability to fool around with the style, etc. We’ll see how that goes. These are from yesterday, Sunday. It was a cool and rainy day but we weren’t [...]
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By: Alicia Padrón,
on 6/2/2010
By: Paula Becker,
on 5/18/2010
This is little guy (or gal?) is from something I was messing around with yesterday. I also posted this on the Illustration for Kids blog. If you want to see what some of us have been working on lately, please check it out.
This is a blast from the past blog post, originally written on November 12, 2008. It’s about a character in the novel I’m currently writing (back then Sheila was the main character, but now she’s the MCs best friend, which is much better for the story).
Denny Crane and Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader
Have you ever wondered what TV, movie or book character your children’s book character is most like? Me neither, but last night while watching Boston Legal,* I realized that Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader is a lot like Denny Crane.** (Scary, huh?) We watched the Nov. 3rd show last night (we’re behind in our TV watching). There’s a great paintball fight between Alan Shore and Denny Crane, and that’s when I started to think about Sheila and Denny.
I’m a Boston Legal fan. It’s a zany, wacky, TV show that pushes boundaries and buttons. It really makes you think, while at the same time making you laugh at the absurdity of the characters on the show. Unfortunately, this is the last season for Boston Legal.
For those that know the show, you’re probably scratching your heads right now wondering why in the world I would compare my children’s book character to someone like Denny. For those of you that haven’t watched the show, Denny is a skirt-chasing lawyer with a huge ego that likes to get his own way and shoot at people when he doesn’t. Denny is also a loveable oddball that feels bad when people don’t like him or he gets left out and he’s very loyal to his friends. Oh, and Denny has “Mad Cow.” The show hasn’t made it clear exactly what “Mad Cow” is, but they’ve offered some hints and theories. It could be Alzheimer’s, actual Mad Cow Disease, or just Denny trying to get attention. Most likely it’s some combination of two or three of those things.
How Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader is Like Denny Crane:
< Denny loves to say his name really loud, “Denny Crane!”
+ Sheila loves to say, “Eat Your Brains!” which sounds a lot like “Denny Crane.”
< Denny is a skirt-chaser. He likes to flirt and loves it when women pay him attention.
+ Sheila loves to chase people and make them scream. She loves attention and hates being ignored.
< Denny likes to get his own way, and if he doesn’t, he shoots his gun.
+ Sheila likes to get her own way, and if she doesn’t, she threatens to eat your brains.
< Denny has “Mad Cow” and sometimes uses that as an excuse to do what he wants.
+ Sheila is a zombie and sometimes uses that as an excuse to do what she wants.
< Denny justifies his actions with irrational reasoning so people won’t know why he’s really doing things.
+ Sheila is afraid of lots of things, which seems irrational, but she has her reasons, and they’re good ones (usually). Most zombies aren’t afraid of anything.
< Despite all these things, you can’t help but like Denny Crane. He’s flawed, but he’s also human.
+ You can’t help liking Sheila, either. She’s flawed, but she’s as human as you can get, even if she is a zombie.
Who is your character like?
* The Boston Legal series is over – no new episodes ever. 
However you can watch reruns on a couple of channels! 
Check local TV listings.
** After this blog post, I realized that Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader is really the older, zombie version of 7 Comments on Are your characters like TV characters?, last added: 4/28/2010
By: Melinda,
on 11/8/2009
By: Beth,
on 7/16/2009
We have a new addition to our little family! While visiting the vet to pick up medication for our dog, my darling husband fell hard for a 7 week old kitten that had been abandoned. One donation later and Kris brought home "Ava's early birthday present."
By: Paula Becker,
on 6/1/2009
Kitty realized she’d have to adapt to the new housemate and his disgusting habits.
Finished another painting for this fall's Growing Up Show. This one depicts me taking my new kitten home from my parents farm. He later went on to cry the entire trip home.
By: sketched out,
on 9/17/2008
By: Valerie Walsh,
on 5/23/2008
By: Pam Coughlan,
on 1/29/2008
So, my daughter’s fever turned into a nasty cold. An odd turn of illness in my book, but now I hear the same thing is going around. (“Oh, the one-day fever with the cough and sniffles! My husband had that!”) I love how we moms categorize these different illnesses and then spread the message far and wide, so that the next unsuspecting mom will have a clue. My girl felt decent over the weekend
By: Rebecca,
on 11/5/2007
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Second Edition by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison chronicles the medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes, strategies for preventing future episodes, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness. In the excerpt below the authors introduce their second edition.
It has been 17 years since the publication of the first edition of this text; they have been the most explosively productive years in the history of medical science. In every field relevant to our understanding of manic-depressive illness—genetics, neurobiology, psychology and neuropsychology, neuroanatomy, diagnosis, and treatment—we have gained a staggering amount of knowledge. Scientists and clinicians have gone an impressive distance toward fulfilling the hopes articulated by Emil Kraepelin in the introduction to his 1899 textbook on psychiatry. (more…)
By: Rebecca,
on 10/22/2007
It is not easy for anyone to become ill and be at the mercy of doctors, but what about doctors themselves? How do they react to being on the other side of stethoscope? In When Doctors Become Patients Robert Klitzman, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, looks at what the experience is like for doctors who become sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of being ill. In the excerpt below Klitzman explores how doctors go about researching their own diseases and how this research seems more disheartening once they have become part of the statistics.
‘‘We know very little,’’ Roxanne, the gastroenterologist, said, referring to the medical literature on the causes of cancer. As suggested above, once ill, many of these physicians came to reassess the role of research in individual medical decisions, and became more critical in their evaluations of research as a whole. Roxanne, for example, became more sensitive to the elusiveness of ‘‘the truth,’’ no longer thinking there was just one answer. ‘‘People base things on the literature and on one paper that’s not been duplicated. I’m skeptical. There’s a lot of literature, but also fashions—things used in the past. Now we’re into other treatment approaches. We can’t cure anything.’’ Indeed, these ill physicians appeared previously to have paid little heed to the implications of this pattern. (more…)
By: Rebecca,
on 7/23/2007
There is no easy way to face death and their are no easy answers for how to prepare. Yet, Drs. Joanne Lynn and Joan Harrold, in their book Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness provide equal measures of practical information and gentle insight. Their book prepares readers for the decisions they will need to face, where to look for help, how to ease pain and other symptoms, what to expect with specific diseases, and how the health-care system operates. It also provides advice on how to come to terms with dying. In the passage below the authors reflect on a common mistake, forcing your loved ones to eat. Be sure to check back later today for another excerpt. (more…)
By: Vivian,
on 3/20/2007
It’s been a rough winter in terms of illness in our house but I’m hoping all that will change in the next few days as we move into the spring season! CLIP 36 will be out later this week so please keep an eye out for it! In the meantime have you had a chance to check [...]
This made me giggle. The kitty sure looks smug in his acheivement, Saying that cats seem to look smug when ever they do anything.
Excellent illustration.
Great Illustration! I love the kiddies looking up and their outfits are great! I also really love the star filled sky its really beautifully done!
Cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it Linda.
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I really like the action and the moment you’ve captured. I also like the way you cut right to the character’s expressions. Awesome.
This one doesn’t look digital to me, is it traditional medium or digital made to look traditional? It’s great Linda!
hugs
hee, hee too cute. I’ve always thought we were their familiars, they’re sneaky like that. Sadly we just lost our familiar and now our house is familiarless.
This is fantastic, absokutely love it.
Wind in his face!
Love it
If the broom fits….ride it!
Linda I love it!
I love everything about this Sketchie!!!
I hope all is well in SoCal-land
xo♥
love it, love the hat blowing back, the whole thing is really cute
love it love!!! The expression on the kiddies faces are wonderful! and I love the smug kitty-witch- great one!!
beautifully rendered!