Jennifer Emery's Creative Journal

2008-06-25T19:55:00.000-07:00

To whomever this picture is copyrighted to, thanks. And thanks to Patrick for the lift on a crappy day.

2007-10-12T17:51:00.000-07:00

Here we are again. Yeah, PBAA!

2007-10-11T18:02:00.000-07:00

Some fellow PBAAer's. I was in the loo I guess.

2007-10-11T17:57:00.000-07:00

We're too sexy for this ranch.

2007-10-11T17:56:00.000-07:00

Laura Jacobsen, myself and Pash. (Beckham.)

2007-10-11T17:54:00.000-07:00

Laura Jacobsen and myself. Let's hear it for Cabin #9!

2007-10-11T17:53:00.000-07:00

Barry Gott and myself (I'm the one in the red.)

2007-10-11T17:46:00.000-07:00

2007-10-03T19:31:00.001-07:00

2007-10-02T09:08:00.000-07:00

2007-06-06T09:38:00.001-07:00

New sketch.

2007-05-31T04:18:00.000-07:00

A sketch of my dog Butler from way back in January. Just found it while looking for some unused Graphics 360. Jen

2007-05-22T13:20:00.001-07:00

A doodle.

Not quite the season.

2006-11-01T13:06:00.000-08:00

Not quite time for handing off holiday gifts but you'd never know it here. The temp today started at 19 degrees and is now 37. At least it's above freezing...but not much. Jen

More Butler...

2006-10-13T11:15:00.000-07:00

Some more photos of our pride and joy, Butler. Boy does he love the dog park.
Jen

Butler!

2006-10-13T11:12:00.000-07:00

2006-09-18T06:46:00.000-07:00

New photo of Butler and myself taken in August.
J

Back from the dead.

2006-08-23T12:33:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
Back from the dead and posting again. This piece is owned in every way possible by Scholastic. Don't even think about clipping/using any part of this image.

Thanks for visiting. More to come soon -I promise.

Jen

2006-06-09T08:19:00.000-07:00

2006-05-12T21:27:00.000-07:00

I used to have three rabbits. Fezzik; my sweetest, Nubby; my girl and George;from the Hawaiian islands. This sketch is of Nubby-who missed a hind foot (hence the name...). She and Fezzik would sit under my drawing table and I would sketch them on bits of scratch paper when I needed a break-or when they were doing something particularly cute. This is a particularly cute moment for Nubby, cleaning her nub right under my feet.
Jen

2006-05-08T14:40:00.000-07:00

An image from my latest poetry book, "Moving Day". It's not been cleaned up yet but it illustrates how I've been feeling lately so well I'm putting it up anyway. Jen

2006-03-31T17:08:00.000-08:00

I just updated my art on Picture Book's website. You can view the new offerings by using the link to the right. This may be the only really new piece I have up. The original sketch features a more obcene hand gesture from the girl on the left. (The sketch has her giving the finger.) I was having a crappy day at the drawing board and just couldn't bring myself to draw one more freakishly happy child-so this drawing was born. It's good to have the edited version around for promo. It gives me a little pleasure to know that this bad little girl gets me paying work-without corrupting any young minds that happen across it. (Is the finger even considered risky with kids now-a-days?)

2006-03-31T07:57:00.000-08:00

I have been having a bit of "artist's block" lately. Can't seem to draw a thing. So I put away my current job this morning and just did some hand sketches. Allowed myself make some mistakes-letting my mind and body go on auto pilot. It helped a lot and I am now back to working on my current job. The above is one of the pages.
Jen

2006-03-26T07:16:00.000-08:00

Above is the cover for my latest book to be released this fall called, Moving Day, written by Ralph Fletcher and being published by Boyds Mills Press. It is, as you've noticed, sans text. My patience this morning is short and I couldn't get it to transfer from the pdf the first time - so I quit. The art is what I'm trying to show anyway. grrrr
Jen

2006-03-24T17:54:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm back. Have been sick over the last couple of weeks and just not up to posting. Am still working on my craft book series with Boyds Mills Press. It's going well but slowly.

I am posting an oil painting I made this year. Obviously, it's a hand. My hand. It hangs on my living room wall and livens up the room in a creepy sort of way. I like hands as the subjects of portraits though. They can be as or more expressive than faces.

Have linked my illustration website to a new promotional website recently (today.) The website is at: http://www.millionpixelimage.com

You'll have to find my squares to use the link. I'm close to the top and just off center to the right. I bought two squares stacked vertical. Will be interesting to see if it gets me any new traffic.

Thanks for reading and looking. Jen