Art and Illustration by Claire DeWilde
These adorable dogs and cats were commissioned as gifts for friends of the client. I love the challenge of capturing an animal’s unique personality!
All of these portraits are 5 x 7″.
“George” [pencil]
“Mable” and “Owen” [watercolor and Micron pen]
“Tiny and McKenna” [pencil]
“Batsy” [ink and watercolor]
“Howie” [pencil]
“Tucker” [ink and watercolor]
I made this watercolor painting for a silent-auction fundraiser for breast cancer research. It’s a cute little 4 x 6″ board that fits nicely in a little green frame.
For this project, I put a twist on the “Pied Piper” fairy tale. In my version, a city populated by mice is plagued by all kinds of bugs! The Piper, a jazz-playing squirrel wearing a zoot suit, rids the town of the bugs. When the townspeople fail to pay him, he leads the children out of town as well. The cityscape was inspired by 1930s New York.
Each spread is 9 x 12″ and done completely in graphite. The entire project took 3 weeks to complete.
These are all my illustrations for CSULB’s student-powered newspaper, The Union Weekly, for the Fall semester of 2013. You can see them all on their website at lbunion.com. The playful articles are always fun to illustrate!
A study of four different art styles. From top to bottom:
Graphite on illustration board, 20×30″
Trying out some digital art! Drew the lines on paper, scanned it into Photoshop for coloring.
Sometime last year, I doodled a little creature and named him Bartleby. Now I want to create Bartleby using different mediums. Here he is in pastels!
Pastel and Micron Pen, 8 x 5″
Watercolor and Pen, 8 x 5 1/2“
4×6″ Watercolor and Pen in red frames.
A girl in meditation.
Watercolor and ink
July 2013
Artful Armadillo