It's that time of year again. Many of you might be getting ready for this weekend's Halloween parties and celebrations. I know that I am having fun creating a costume for a special party that I am going to as well. 

This got me thinking...Do Witches dress up for Halloween?

I have had so many emails from customers asking where they can buy my new Chefs calendar. So, I had decided to create one and sell one for 2012 in my Zazzle Store. This is a great holiday gift for yourself or for the chef in your life!

I wanted to show my hand sketch to line work to color and pattern that I created in Adobe Illustrator. I saved the three stage out as jpegs, brought each image into a Photoshop layered file and then created a simple gif animation to show the progress. Fun!

Here is some fun still life artwork and even a portrait of my dog, Sara that  I painted on my Ipad using the Art Studio app. This program works similar to Photoshop as it has many art tools and Layers (yes, layers!). It only allows for five layers maximum, so you have to be somewhat strategic in planning your painting. I find my self creating my background on the bottom layer and putting other elements on the middle layers and save the top layers for shadows and highlights. If you have an Ipad, I highly recommend trying this app for yourself.