and we are off!!!!  These are my postcards and business cards-I spent two days combing through the Children s Writers and Illustrators Market and the internet and addressing them to kids magazines and to book publishers!  I keep thinking how funny it is that i put out all my hopes and dreams and longings in these little missives-the design the art the layout all painstakingly and thoughtfully put together-and now I send them off into the world and wonder-

will anyone even notice-

will they sense the dreams they are holding in their hand

will they see-really see?????

doors

Fairy doors now on Etsy-lets see them move!!!!

I am having so much fun with theses-especially my wood burning tool.  I hope I can sell these-I am needing to line my pockets a bit as work has been totally dead.   But I keep coming up with ideas and see them through, hopefully all these little seeds I am planting will start blooming.  Speaking of blooming it is finally warm out-on the day I feel so icky!!!!!  Otherwise I would be out there working in this new yard of mine.  

My new website, Melindakordich.com TOTALLY rocks!!!!  for that I have my wonderful old (as in we have known each other a long time, not as in we are aged) Mikki Morrisette-if you need a website she is who you  MUST see. Patient and kind and super eager for you to be happy!!!!I also ordered my promotional postcards-now I need to make a list-and to hand address or not?????  I like the idea of being a bit personalized..
and just for fun-look what I found in my yard!!!!
It is FINALLY spring

I am having a hard time deciding what image to use for my postcard!!!  However, I HAVE decided to use this on my bio page instead of a picture.  I am having so much fun-there must be a better word-delight-elan-joy-happiness-soul singing-to describe what I feel when I am painting and drawing.

I am working on getting a website for illustration up.  An old dear friend is doing the grunt work while I sit back and paint and upload pictures to her.  It is exciting to finally actually declare myself an illustrator next step-promotional postcards to publishers!!!!!!!!

I have been applying to all sorts of jobs because of a panic after the sewer pipe had to be replaced-but all of them come back with kind rejection letters

but because secretly I don't want to work 9-5 for 900 an hour, I am sort of relieved.

and it makes me think I should just do what I do best......like this stuff

and really really do it

and so I am starting!!!!

goblins market-I didn't get it they way I had pictured it-its kind of a scary poem, dark and creepy , so I think I will try in black and white next time.  If I could throw a sepia over this painting I would ....I need it to be more eerie...

well, I am two weeks into my childrens book illustration class and loving it.  I have been using pastels a lot and really coming to appreciate the look of them.  The flying elephant is an example, I don't have a pic of my first project but will take one soon.  This week class was cancelled because of illness so it was a bummer.  However I find myself doing every prompt and every aspect of every assignment so I have 5 paintings to show instead of one.  I have to pick my fav for the critique otherwise I will take up too much time, but I find doing all of the prompts really fun and helpful!