My day job

As I've mentioned here before, I'm one of those lucky artists who is actually employed by someone else to draw every day. (And yet I still feel the need to keep drawing and painting when I get home..) Anyway, I thought I'd (again?) show off a random selection of stuff I've drawn for Embroideryonline.com that I'm particularly proud of:

Also, they are doing "staff profiles" on their new blog. They don't really give you that much info about us staffs, but, hey, I guess it shows that we're real people. Check mine out here. (I didn't pick the questions they asked me.)

Stitchy Art

Back in January I had decided I would start tying to post on this blog every day or so..and look--it's been a week since my last post! (already!) 

Man, this year is going fast. 

I've been so busy lately-- But I've been busy with fun stuff (working on portraits, sewing pillow animals, riding/training Stormy...) I'll post several in-progress photos of paintings I'm working on soon. 

Also, I'm thinking about doing a pillow pet or print giveaway soon. Or a portrait-winning photo contest. I'm just trying to figure out exactly what I want to do first. (If anyone has any requests on what I should giveaway--feel free to comment!)

Anyhoo...since I can't post pictures (yet) of what I've been painting, here's some "art" from my day job. This is a collection I drew a while ago for OESD that just came out last month:

My Day Job

My "real" job (the one that actually pays the bills) is drawing designs for an embroidery company (OESD). It's a lot of fun really, and it gets more and more fun as the market gets more trendy. I didn't even know home embroidery machines existed before I started working here, and now I really really really wish I had one. (Actually I did get a sewing machine for Christmas but it doesn't do embroidery.)
Here's one of my newest designs. It was actually based on customer requests. Who doesn't love the cute and cuddly honey badger? I'm happy with how it turned out so I just had to share:

I do end up drawing more flowers than anything else for embroidery, but I'm the designated animal-drawer here at work so I get assigned (most) of the collections that involve animals.