Amy Huntington's Sketchbook

A book is a hopeful messenger.

2011-12-23T10:03:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays, All!

Separation

2011-12-09T06:38:00.000-08:00

Yep, separated from Mom and now he's in trouble!

November Sugar Maple

2011-11-06T13:18:00.000-08:00

It was a great day to sketch outside.

"Ferocious"

2011-09-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

Greeting Card design.

Four pigs

2011-08-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

Enjoying time in a mud puddle after a day of rain.

Grandma Drove the Lobster Boat, by Katie Clark

2011-08-12T06:29:00.000-07:00

Grandma is creating her own "swell". This is the cover for her third and newest book which I am working on now.

Prepare a sundae

2011-07-14T09:58:00.000-07:00

Sketches for Grandma Drove the Lobster Boat, by Katie Clark

2011-06-10T08:26:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday "Launch"

Long Island Maine

2011-06-10T08:24:00.001-07:00

Casco Bay Maine

2011-06-10T08:22:00.001-07:00

Lion

2011-05-19T08:14:00.000-07:00

A detail from a practice final piece...work-in-progress.

Safari

2011-05-13T10:00:00.000-07:00

"Safari" is Kiswahili for trip.

Ada

2011-05-01T05:49:00.000-07:00

Journey

2011-04-15T13:45:00.001-07:00

A journey in Kenya.

Duet

2011-04-01T07:50:00.000-07:00

This duet is enjoying a classic picture book!

Stuck guinea foul

2011-03-24T12:50:00.000-07:00

This is me today, saving a guinea hen who managed to somehow hang herself by a toe.(Ipad painting)

Snow Splash Event!!

2011-01-31T09:23:00.000-08:00

Should be a BLAST!!

IF Chicken

2011-01-14T07:30:00.000-08:00

Sketch for a picture book in progress.

IF Winter

2010-12-24T06:44:00.000-08:00

My two sheep, Wilson and Hogarth. They love the snow.

IF "Prehistoric"

2010-12-03T11:30:00.000-08:00

Yikes!!

IF "Burning"

2010-11-12T07:03:00.000-08:00

Promo card.

Illustration Friday; "Transportation"

2010-10-08T12:20:00.000-07:00

My favorite form of transportation in Kenya!

IF Beneath

2010-10-01T09:50:00.000-07:00

Above the earth and beneath the clouds, the downward facing frog practices her pose.

Illustration Friday "Old Fashioned"

2010-09-25T06:04:00.000-07:00

Ah... a good old fashioned kiss!

IF Proverb

2010-09-10T08:48:00.000-07:00

Woodcut.

IF Dessert

2010-09-03T06:00:00.000-07:00

Cupcakes are the best. A sketch from a page of my Chubby Toes dummy.

IF Atmosphere

2010-08-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

It was an atmosphere of love!

IF Double

2010-07-26T08:42:00.001-07:00

Sign for our Garlic at farmers market.

IF Breakfast

2010-07-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

While he held up the barn, she helped herself to a leisurely breakfast of coffee and donuts. (T- shirt design for a friend who restores old barns.)

IF Giant

2010-07-02T07:47:00.000-07:00

My cousin's dog "Baby."

IF Acrobat

2010-06-18T08:10:00.000-07:00

This guy is getting ready to do a back leap with a triple spin!

IF Ripple

2010-06-14T06:02:00.000-07:00

My cow in Burlington, Vermont

2010-05-23T07:33:00.000-07:00

IF Early

2010-05-21T09:11:00.000-07:00

He rose early to "catch" the rising sun.
Oils on crosscut maple.

Moose Power

2010-05-14T08:24:00.000-07:00

This is the title page from Moose Power! Muskeg Saves the Day by Susan Beckhorn. It's just recently published.Yay!! I received a box-load yesterday.

IF Equipment

2010-05-14T08:03:00.000-07:00

Just got my advance copy yesterday, of Grandma Drove the Snowplow, by Katie Clark, Down East Books. That's some piece of heavy machinery!

IF Cocoon

2010-04-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

Her image of "jumping over the moon," is wrapped up (or zipped up,) like a cocoon.

35 painted cows like mine will be displayed on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, May-October, 2010.

IF Ahead

2010-04-24T05:11:00.000-07:00

Looking ahead is much easier from this height!
This is a new style I have been playing with in oils on clayboard. Way fun!
Like painting with butter on glass.Yes she has extra fingers. My daughter drew hands like that as a child, with many fingers that continued to the edge of the page. I have been thinking of her lately.

IF Dip

2010-04-06T14:04:00.000-07:00

This is what we are dipping into this month... maple syrup. This is a sap bucket painted for a client. How should I be paid? With maple syrup, of course!

IF Rescue

2010-03-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

Are the ducks rescuing the dog? Or visa versa? Or neither? This is a sketch from a new book I am working on.

IF Subterranean

2010-03-13T09:45:00.000-08:00

Out of the foxhole and under the moon.

IF Propagate

2010-02-10T05:51:00.000-08:00

Propagate the sun! Oils, on driftwood.

My studio

2010-02-08T07:43:00.001-08:00

My Studio and Layla

2010-02-08T07:42:00.001-08:00

2010-02-08T07:37:00.000-08:00

Medieval musician

2010-02-04T10:46:00.000-08:00

IF Wilderness

2010-01-17T11:43:00.000-08:00

Mcheshi the goat in the Kenyan wilderness, under an Acacia tree.

IF Confined

2010-01-08T06:37:00.000-08:00

Medieval figure

2009-12-27T13:54:00.000-08:00

IF Renewal

2009-12-27T13:53:00.000-08:00

Oil on cherry wood. I think of this little figure as a kind of gargoyle, but it also looks like he's about to break out of an egg, which seems appropriate for this week's theme.

Porch, A Rocha, Kenya

2009-12-22T07:22:00.001-08:00

We hung out on this porch a lot. There was usually a bit of a breeze.

Plumeria tree, Kenya

2009-12-22T07:10:00.001-08:00

A Rocha,Kenya

2009-12-22T06:59:00.000-08:00

Kenya, A Rocha

2009-12-22T06:57:00.000-08:00

A Rocha is the Mwamba Field Study Centre in Watamu on the Kenyan coast. It is very hot and SOOO beautiful, and right on the Indian Ocean

Carly's compound

2009-12-22T06:51:00.000-08:00

We did wash on the stoop of Carly's apartment in Namanga, Kenya. She has a beautiful batik in her living room.

IF Entangled

2009-11-27T14:03:00.000-08:00

Hogarth tried to avoid any entanglement with the wolf!

My snowflake

2009-11-24T05:48:00.001-08:00

IF Frozen

2009-10-17T06:36:00.000-07:00

A holiday card from years past.

IF flying

2009-10-11T17:09:00.000-07:00

An old illustration. There just is something about frogs!

IF Welcome

2009-09-11T09:45:00.000-07:00

As Fall drifts in I am already thinking about Spring. This fellow gardener is welcoming in that season.

IF Wrapped

2009-08-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

The painted frame is wrapped around the picture.

IF Hollow

2009-07-10T10:02:00.000-07:00

“Better than a thousand hollow notes, is one note that brings joy." Thanks, Buddha!
(My brother playing keyboard.)

IF Worn

2009-06-26T11:07:00.000-07:00

Ferry boat, Burlington, Vermont. She gets a bit worn by the weather and summer traffic back and forth across Lake Champlain. Here she is iced in by the dock in January.

IF "Cracked"

2009-05-23T06:15:00.001-07:00

It hasn't cracked yet!!!

IF Contagious

2009-05-15T14:42:00.000-07:00

The suspense was contagious! YIKES!!!

IF Impossibility

2009-04-17T07:57:00.000-07:00

Waitressing cow. An impossibility?

IF Fleeting

2009-04-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

Childhood is fleeting - or piglethood as the case may be.

IF Poise

2009-03-27T05:45:00.000-07:00

A frog is always poised....to JUMP! Though this one seems pretty content to sit.Spring is just around the corner. I'm waiting to hear the spring peepers.

Doodles - monsters

2009-02-28T06:29:00.000-08:00

IF Breezy

2009-02-27T13:11:00.000-08:00

IF Instinct

2009-02-20T05:46:00.000-08:00

Their instincts told them something was not right.

More from Echo Science Center

2009-01-01T12:50:00.001-08:00

Sketches from Echo Science Center

2009-01-01T12:48:00.000-08:00

Great way to spend a cold day.

Dancer

2008-11-25T13:56:00.000-08:00

Initials

2008-11-25T13:53:00.001-08:00

IF Memory

2008-08-29T11:15:00.000-07:00

Memory of a crow.

IF Routine

2008-08-25T15:55:00.000-07:00

My Saturday morning routine is grocery shopping. Someone has added some items to this young lady's list.

Illustration Friday "detach"

2008-08-20T10:10:00.000-07:00

Everything about this barn is "detached." It is a new t-shirt design for a builder friend.

Wendy and Bob

2008-07-25T05:34:00.001-07:00

These are my friend's goats. They are VERY active which makes for good sketch practice.

IF Hoard

2008-06-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

Lots of stuff!

From Astair the Bear

(written by Martin Brennan.)

IF Baby

2008-06-04T05:33:00.000-07:00

Calves and baby (and rat with udder)

Cows eating

2008-05-26T05:44:00.000-07:00

IF Worry

2008-05-25T12:46:00.000-07:00

IF Electricity

2008-05-09T11:55:00.000-07:00

Yay! Dancin' chicken

IF Seed

2008-05-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

IF Wrinkles

2008-04-25T10:20:00.001-07:00

I have a few of those too!

IF Primitive

2008-04-18T08:16:00.000-07:00

IF Heavy

2008-03-17T10:16:00.001-07:00

Big bunny,little hippo.

IF Garden

2008-03-08T08:13:00.000-08:00

Ummmmm! She grows such tasty cabbage!

IF Theory

2008-02-15T12:38:00.000-08:00

In theory, sheep can't float, but they were having just that kind of day.

IF Blanket

2008-02-01T07:11:00.000-08:00

This is one of my illustrations from Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck by Katie Clark.

IF Stitches

2008-01-06T11:00:00.001-08:00

I painted this on a panel to cover up a hole in a door that has been there for 13 years.

IF Soar

2008-01-01T09:32:00.000-08:00

I just finished this for a community health center fundraiser in February (hence the heart)

IF Horizon

2007-12-21T09:27:00.000-08:00

On the Horizon...
sheep with excellent fine motor skills?!?

Winter Solstice and hot chocolate

2007-12-20T06:19:00.001-08:00

Greeting card #4 "Fox in Winter"

2007-10-04T11:59:00.001-07:00

greeting card #3

2007-10-04T11:57:00.000-07:00

Greeting card#2 "Pigs at beach"

2007-10-04T11:56:00.000-07:00

Greeting card "Small packages"

2007-10-04T11:50:00.001-07:00

IF Wedding

2007-09-14T08:06:00.000-07:00

"Fiddle dee, dee. Fiddle dee, dee. The mouse has married the bumble bee." This is from a book of nursery rhymes, in hand painted woodcuts...never published, but maybe one day!