Julianna, our second daughter, took her first commission over the holidays while she was home from college. The whole house had that wonderful smell of an oil painter at work.

This is Margaret’s gift from her swim team Secret Santa. We’re just showing him off because we can’t believe it really worked. This is before we gave him a little trim.

Lovely day. I tore down empire-sized sheets of cotton Somerset Velvet printmaking paper today and it made such a soft, lovely, deckled-edged stack that I couldn’t resist snapping a quick photo.

Ellen has started our blog, so here we go!

New Year’s Day: What better way is there to start the year than getting big kisses from Henry between bowls of good-luck black-eyed peas at our dear friend, Pat’s house. Pat is an old friend from our New York days, who has c’mon back to Texas, and Henry is her gigantic poodle. (Really, no kidding, my girls are pretty tall … He’s BIG!)

Pat is also an amazing art director.  Here is her very cool site.

Welcome!

Because many of you have known and loved Cathy Heck’s work for over twenty years, we at the studio have decided that it is time to start a blog where we can celebrate the daily joys of creating art for you and your children. We are celebrating a new beginning!

This blog arrives just before the start of one of Cathy Heck Studio’s biggest projects yet: the launch of our entirely new Flash website, which allows you to create for your child – or with your child – a personalized work of art with choices from hundreds of Cathy Heck illustrated characters and patterns. You will also be able to buy coordinating nursery art, and limited edition signed prints of Cathy’s classic beautifully-illustrated scenes, such as Little Pond and Noah’s Colorful Ark.

We’ve been working on this website for over two years now – designing and testing to make sure everything is just right for its launch, which will be so soon! We can’t wait, because although we are technically still in the last stages of creation…

we’re pretty sure that we can see the rainbow at the end of the storm. :)