Bird family - collage

Out of This World - digital illustration

I just got my advances for this book from Kids Can Press, that I worked on. It's going to be in stores soon :) so exciting to see the finished product !

Man on the Moon - digital illustration

Just a quick doodle for Apollo 11 who landed on the moon 40 years ago.

Amélie and Hawkeye - pencil sketch

Duck Puppet - mixed media

This is not my usual illustrated post, but my daughter and I were getting creative with crafts and came up with this puppet. It was a lot of fun to make, Amélie was in charge of all the gluing so it was a two day process, overnight for all the glue to dry ;)

2 peas - digital illustration

It's been a while since I've last posted. This is because the newest addition to our family has arrived, two weeks early and the day after moving into our new house...so as you can imagine there has been a lot of changes and adjustments going on here! I think I am getting back on top of things so check back soon and I will try to post more regularly again!

~ Céleste

Crabby apples - ink, watercolour pencil

Amélie's bird - pencil crayon

Amélie wanted me to draw a bird for her, she told me what colours it had to be and where the colours had to go. Pretty and colourful bird she created!

May Echo Wallpaper Wide screen - pencil

to download click on above illustration for a larger version

May Echo Wallpaper - pencil

to download click on above illustration for a larger version

Bath time fun - watercolour and pencil

Amélie on an apple - watercolour and pencil crayons

Amélie and Elliott - ink/digital

On the theme of Spring, this spring will bring another little one in our home. So here is some early doodle of Amélie and her baby brother (to be).

Living Room artwork
So now that we are thinking of selling our house, we decided (4 years later) that we should probably put some artwork up...but we didn't have anything that we liked, and we are on a budget, so I was doing some paper cut outs this morning and this is what came out of it!
I am on a bird kick right now (Sorry Shana!) must be looking forward to spring!
Céleste

Artwork in living room
(yes that is my little one playing with Mulder and Scully action figures, she is the coolest!)

Yellow Bird - paper

Black Bird - paper

Blue Bird - paper

Kiwi bird - watercolour ink

more fingerprint fun :)

Robots - ink and watercolour

While painting with my 2.5 year old this morning I was informed that I was doing it all wrong. "Use (pronounced "ooze") your fingers Maman!" (loosen up in other words). So I tried it and really had a great time! Here are the results, they make fun little spot illustrations I think! Thanks Amélie for teaching me a thing or two ;)

Juggling too much - digital illustration

Spring flowers - watercolour/ink sketch

Toy Bunny - pencil sketch

March Echo Wallpaper (widescreen) - digital illustration

To download a desktop version just click on image above and save to your computer. Enjoy!

March Echo Wallpaper - digital illustration
click on image for a larger desktop version

2 peas in a pod - pencil sketch

This is a rough of something I think I want to print or paint to put in my little ones room, once baby #2 is born. I have a feeling they will be inseparable!

Happy Valentines Day - design

This years Valentines day card :)

Echo Wallpaper Widescreen - digital illustration
For those of you who don't want Valentines wallpaper all month ;)

Echo Wallpaper - digital illustration

Echo Wallpaper WideScreen - digital illustration

February Echo Wallpaper - digital illustration

New Business Cards - Design

These are my new business cards :) It took a while, but I finally got around to making new ones! Now to finish up my new website!

Northern Leopard Frog - pencil sketch
www.wwf.ca

Panda Bear - pencil sketch
www.wwf.ca

Memory card game - Design

Here are the cards for the bird memory card game, created by myself and Amélie.

Birds - marker

Here I am working with my little apprentice :) We are making a memory card game together using these birds. We chose birds because Amélie's Pépé (Grandpa) has shared his love of birds with her ;)

Amélie and the cats - pencil doodle

Amélie and Meadow napping - pencil doodle

Amélie Butterfly - pencil sketch

Mary Poppins - quick watercolour sketch

After watching Mary Poppins with my little one (her new favorite) for the 20th time since Christmas, I decided to pass the time sketching while she danced along to the songs :)

Hawkeye in socks - pencil sketch

January Echo wallpaper (widescreen) - digital illustration

As per some requests from Echo followers, I am now going to be doing a widescreen version of the wallpapers now :) Enjoy!

January Echo Wallpaper (normal screen) - digital illustration

Echo - digital illustration

These past couple of months have been a little crazy, I have many plans for Echo in the new year, and so the wallpaper has had to be put aside. But regular wallpapers will be back come January, as well (I hope) as a new website with lots of fun new additions :)

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas holiday, see you in the new year!

Céleste

Christmas Card 2008 - photo and digital illustration
This is our family Christmas card this year, starring my adorable little one :)