Love Your Neighbor

Playing around with a new style of eyes. I’m actually digging it.
Watercolor and graphite, for the Little Lutheran magazine.

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A Fox in Sheep Clothing

For the Bloomington Handmade Market.

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Day Nursery – Role Models for Children

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Ladybug Magazine – At the Library

Watercolor, colored pencil and graphite.
For Ladybug Magazine, Carus Publishing.

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Handicraft Exchange Posters

Watercolor and graphite.
Poster images created for the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange in 2009.
Designed by Amy McAdams and Brandon With Glasses respectively.

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Babybug Magazine

Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite.
For Babybug Magazine, Carus Publishing.

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Oliver at the Window

Front Street/Boyds Mills Press. Children’s picture book written by Elizabeth Shreeve.

“Shreeve tackles an emotionally complex topic with sensitivity. McDonald’s unpretentious artwork serves the story beautifully with an earnest integrity. Loving texture is imparted on every surface by use of colored pencil, while she cleverly uses Oliver’s lion as a device to show his emotional growth throughout the story.”–Kirkus Reviews

“A cozy atmosphere with subtle humor. A gentle, charming book.” –School Library Journal

Winner of a 2010 honor award from the Society of School Librarians International.

Available on Amazon.

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Christmas card

I absolutely love this portrait. The family wanted something that felt a little like Leave it to Beaver for their Christmas card. The dad is a neuroscientist who has a tattoo of his pinup wife holding a platter with a brain on it (which of course had to be represented here, because it is awesome).

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Little Lutheran – Scavenger Hunt

Watercolor and graphite.
A Christmas time search for the Little Lutheran Magazine.

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The Day I Met the Nuts

Story Pie Press
Available on Amazon.
Watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite.

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