Easter egg girlie girl

For our annual Easter craft page, I came  up with something a little bit different. The headline was "Eggs-press yourself"! The idea was a collaboration between myself and Sue, with the idea being personality stereotypes or high school clique clichés. I really like how each of the little egg outfits turned out. The pattern for the egg outfits can be printed out at www.flipsidepa.com, our website for the "Flipside" section of the York Daily Record. The outfits fit around the cardboard tube from a paper towel or toliet paper roll. And large or extra large eggs fit very nicely on the tube/outfit/egg stand. Happy Easter everyone!

Sporty Easter egg

My attempt at creating an athletic egg.... 

Preppy Easter egg

Here's my preppy easter egg complete with argyle, polka dots and the "monogramed initials" of our paper the York Daily Record. 

Easter Egg punk/goth

My dark side coming out a bit.... 

Easter egg hippie

Here's one of my quirky creations for our Easter egg craft. 

Christmas and Commercialism

This was the first illustration I created when I started my job at the newspaper. I hadn't started blogging about my artwork at that point, so I never got to share this illustration on-line. Even though Christmas season is long gone, I thought it was still worth sharing this piece. I remember it being a challenge to come up with a way to show how the Christian meaning of Christmas has been changed by our culture of over-indulgence and commercialism. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It was a thrill to be able to take home the newspaper on Christmas Eve and see my name in print underneath my artwork. 

Here's my very first "by-line"! This is an idea I've used for making boxes out of Christmas cards, but really it works for any holiday. I actually used one of the boxes I'd made to hold my sweetie DB's valentine (tickets to see the Blue Man Group at the Giant Center in Hershey!)