"The Lost Midnight Garden" 2015 Watercolor, colored pencil, and digital. By Mike Blake Late last year I was browsing Sh...

2014 Christmas Digital, graphite, charcoal. It's about time for another post, and what better way to do it, then by showing off a ...

In case you were tired of digging through my blog to find all the pages of my Illustrated poem, "Bubbling Brew" I include...

Bubbling Brew. Page 10 (of 10). Bubbling Brew is all done. Phew. I think that this page is my favorite of the whole poem...which is your...

Bubbling Brew. Page 9 (of 10).  One more page to go!

Bubbling Brew. Page 8 (of 10).  I think out of all the pictures of the girl, this is my favorite, or at least the one that shows the mos...

Bubbling Brew. Page 7 (of 10).  I had to re-draw the last 4 pages of the poem 3 times.This page pretty much stayed the same, while  8 an...

Bubbling Brew. Page 6 (of 10).  To read parts 1-5 go here: ( http://monisawa.blogspot.com/2013/11/bubbling-brew-page-5-of-10-plus-bonus...

Sorry for the lack of updates. For those of you reading and waiting for the rest of "Bubbling Brew", I'M SO SORRY!  I...

Sorry for the delays...I've had alot of distractions/setbacks this week. I am not finished with the pages yet...I still have 5 more...

Whew, moving right along. Almost halfway done! About this project: This is my Halloween GIFT to everyone.  Come back often!  I will cont...

Well sorry for the delay on this page. I think the extra time I spent on it was worth it, but ultimately my deadline has been shifted fro...

Page2 (of 10) One of the most complex pages is coming tomorrow...page 3. I spent a bit of yesterday and a little of today working on it....

Page1 (of 10) I was working on trying to get a children's novel self-published by Halloween, but when I realized that this wasn'...

Community Service 2013 Graphite and Digital Little did his Grandmother and Auntie know how their gifts of a wheelbarrow and an new umbre...

"Illustration Friday - ROBOT" 2013. Graphite and Digital. Well you might have wondered why I haven't posted for awhil...

“It was a bright sunny morning as Koki left for school but today he thought he would take a different path...what he didn’t realize...” ...

"For the Fishes" 2013 Digital and Graphite. So alot has happened since I last posted. Sorry bout the lack of posts. I can s...

"Thank you and Good Luck Penelope!" 2013 Graphite and Digital. Upon hearing the sad news that the Founder of Illustration Fri...

MTC Poster. 2013 Graphite and Digital. Sorry its been so long, but I've busy working on my NEW house! ( see before and after Vi...