New Year, new projects...

Just finished my first illustration of 2015. Something fun for Girl Talk magazine. :)

"My brother was saying things to put me off my food at his birthday party.
He was only doing it to impress his friends so I threw a tomato at him - but he 
ducked and it splattered right into my best friend’s face. I was so embarrassed!"

– Olivia, 12

School blues... time for colour!

Going to start working on the colour for this fun little classroom illustration for a Client.

Percival Crumbly's Debut at the INSPIRE Toronto International Book Fair!

This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend the first Toronto International Book Fair to promote my first Children's Book Illustration project, Dreaming Away with Percival Crumbly. Meeting avid readers and signing books was such a great experience. I am looking forward to next year's fair :)

Dreaming Away with Percival Crumbly written
by James Di Fiore and Illustrated by Diane Kolar
Get the storybook and FREE App here:
www.dreamawaypublishing.com

Dog Disaster

Girl Talk Magazine - Monthly Cringe :)

"I was out walking my dog in my local park when I noticed that my lace was undone.
As I knelt down to tie it, the dog lead slipped out of my hand,
my dog ran off into someone’s picnic and ate one of their sandwiches!!! Whoops!"

Infographic for No Sweat

Studio sessions

Wednesday evenings this fall has been my night to let loose and sketch along with a studio class at OCAD. Gotta love the obscure objects provided each week for still life subjects. Everything from skulls, mannequins and household tools to plastic lawn geese. Below, the quirky goose portrait - a quick study of negative and positive space in charcoal. Next up was the creepy skeleton :)

Pond cringe completed piece

This piece was fun to create. :)

"I was walking around a pond at my cousin’s wedding with this boy I’d just met. 

He told me a funny joke and I laughed so much that I fell into the pond!

 I got my nice dress all ruined, major cringe!"