Jane & Valerie

Friday

Janie

She's only 11, but looks 27 here. I think I erred on some proportion or something. She came to hang out with me at the studio all day as I worked.

In the audience

We got to see a local production of the Nutcracker yesterday (some very good friends/neighbor's daughter was in it). Jack was sitting next to me giving me suggestions about the sketch -- until the lights went down and the show began.

Holiday Boutique '06

Joan organized a Holiday Boutique at the kids' elementary school and the big event was this afternoon. Lily helped out at the button booth, making those buttons that you can pin on your shirt. Here she is working the machine. The kids in the foreground are a couple red-head boys drawing their designs to be pressed into a button. No, I didn't make a mistake, she has actually dyed her hair green!


This is the button she made for me. I think it's me and Joan in front of a Christmas tree. The faces are stickers she had.


The event. Joan is the woman in the middle of the picture, and yes, that's Lily in the foreground.

Resaurant sketch

The food came before I could draw the man she was talking to.