Hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas filled with friends, family and laughter.
May the New Year bring you good tidings.
Cheers, until 2015!
Santa & Cardinal © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
The Adventures of Lazy Liz
Currently in the middle of a couple of projects, and decided to share a dapple comic I created. I've also been reading a lot of Calvin and Hobbes (Cause Watterson is a Boss) and the Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (resect to the greats who made the industry).
May our tea never go cold and our spandex never where out!
Beautiful Day, Lazy Liz Comic © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Father & Daughter Date Night
Again I worked with the wonderful Community Christian Church to creating images for their events. I love CCC & I love creating for them. These guys have an amazing impact in their community.
This illustration was created for their Father & Daughter Date Night. When it was pitched I was super on board! Painting a picnic under the stars has been on my create bucket list for awhile and it is nice to know that it is going to be put to good use.
Father & Daughter Date Night Logo
The Painted Illustration
Logo & Text Together
© Liz Cleaves Illustration
Rights Reserved for the use of Community Christian Church
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Reading the Biography of Archimedes
Competition piece for Oregon Society of Artists 12"x 12" competition. Currently it is on exhibit through Nov - Dec 6 and is for sale.
Reading the Biography of Archimedes © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Q&A King
Recently I was privileged with working with the folks over at Quail Bell Magazine in creating an illustration for an editorial. Check out the article Growing up a Game Changer by Christopher Sloce and the Quail Bell Website
Q&A King © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sugar Rush Season
Personally, this is my favorite time of year. The trees are changing into my favorite colors, the air has a refreshing crisp to it and waiting for warm goodies to be come out of the oven! Did I mention sweaters? Cause Sweaters are the best!
For most kids this is the main reason that they are excited about October is because the one night when its acceptable to horde candy is right around the corner!
GET EXCITED FOR YOUR SUGAR RUSH!
Sugar Rush Season © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Running to Town
Still don't have your own copy of "Fox Hunt" yet? Thats ok, you still can!
There is no need to run into town to find it, just hop on Amazon.com!
Keep on Reading!
Running Into Town © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Summer Readings
What a whirl wind of a summer!
Receiving my BFA, galavanting in New York City, cross country move to Portland Oregon and meeting new creative people! Its amazing, how fast time flies!
Here are some of the books that slowed me down,
that really made me stop, think, listen and enjoy the moment.
Winnie- the - Pooh by A.A Milne
Black Magic by Dinah Johnson Illustrated by Gregory Christie
Picnic, Lighting by Billy Collins
A Series of Unfortunate Events : The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Looking for Calvin and Hobbs The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak
Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
The Lions Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Stories by Russell Davis and Brent Ashabranner
The Trolley To Yesterday by John Belliars
Marry Poppins Comes Back by P.L. Travers
'Make Good Art Speech' by Neil Gaiman
And Now I see how much of an Orange / Yellow color scheme my books where.
Well thats interesting....
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Welcome Oregon!
Greetings, trusted friends and worthy foes.
Liz Cleaves Illustration is now back up and fully operational.
Al & I had a great drive out and some great adventures!
Al & I had a great drive out and some great adventures!
Portland has welcomed us with its grizzly tattooed flannel arms. It has been great to walk around the town and seeing how much artistic life is living here.
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The future is looking bright ahead!
Thanks peeps for tuning in, until next week!
Monday, July 15, 2013
Liz Cleaves Illustration is hitting the Oregon Trail
Greetings All
Yesterday I started on an adventure. I'm leaving Pennsylvania and driving two thousand eight hundred eighty eighty miles to Portland Oregon. My co-pilot is my cousin Al, a fearsomely handsome New Yorker, who when speaks women swoon and men nod their heads in approval.
Together we shall share the highways with truckers, drink ungodly amounts of old burnt gas station coffee, eat our way though america's local dinning establishment's grease, race each other across the Great Salt Flats and will be able to boss anyone in the
"what states have you visited?"game.
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The Studio is temporally halted due to its all squeezed in the back of my car, tighter then a 1800's century corset. Commission work will presume again July 29th. So keep those ideas fresh in your mind and shoot me an email. I will get back to you as soon as I can. Please know that your project will be started as soon as the studio is unpacked, up and running.
Just want to also say thanks to the peeps who totally support me and encouraged though this huge endever, Mom, Jerry, Alex, Hannah & Mat, Fink, Luann, Michelle, Ja'quan/Jed, Velardi, Francos,
Uncle Roger & Yeager
See you guys on the other side.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Commission: CCC at the Movies!
Once again I had the pleasure of working with Community Christian Church in White Marsh MD. http://communitycc.net/ This time it was a graphics package for their summer time sermon series "CCC at the Movies"This was a fun project, creating an illustration & logo that would show case "at the movies" and fit a wide variety of formats. Illustration, logo, web banner, bulletin cover, slides, cd covers parcel and wrap around, Challenge ACCEPTED!
The finished illustration!
The logo designed
The illustration & logo working together in the web banner!
To learn more about Community Christian Church check out their web site http://communitycc.net/
and to see printed work go visit them one Sunday morning! "they have coffee"
All images © Liz Cleaves Illustration
rights reserved
Commission: Slumber Party Map!
Mother, Daughter Slumber Party Map for the Community Christian Church's Palooza.
The map was to illustrate the locations of events at the slumber party.
It was a blast painting whimsical girly things!
check out Community Christian Church at http://communitycc.net/
© Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Tree Commission
Greetings, blog readers and art fanatics!
Here is a watercolor & ink painting of a tree that was commissioned. The client was a fan of the tress in the Season's Greetings, Winter and wanted a tree of there own.
If you have any questions or would like to commission a original piece of art for your self or a loved one. Feel free to contact me at my email lizcleavesillustration@gmail.com
Here is the process of the illustration.
The pencil Sketch
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Inked
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Half Finish
The Finish
all images © Liz Cleaves Illustration
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Spring Reading List
Sitting down again with a good book is important. It keeps the mind fresh and full of ideas!
Here are my recent reads.
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