Artwork – Casey Girard Illustration

Birding and Leaf Painting

I have always collected leaves. Every year as the leaves turn I find myself picking up my favorites. In past years I did this without much plan; I would pick them up and shove them between book pages (books I clearly didn’t care about because leaf pressing in books wicks all the moisture from theContinue reading “Birding and Leaf Painting”

Shadow Boxes

After years of building with clay and painting with watercolors I believe I have finally found the place where they meet, shadow boxes. Our school community hosted a show for the women that make art. This ranged from a group of teachers, alumni, and moms. Everyone helped to build the event, it was a veryContinue reading “Shadow Boxes”

A Hippo for Christmas

A new beginning. I love painting but, I also love building with sculpey or other clay. These two styles of mine have been at odds with each other for years. I feel like I had to take a long while away from finishing major illustrations to play with these mediums to find the way toContinue reading “A Hippo for Christmas”

Peek-a-boo

I have been drawing. My friends at Fanartica got me to commit to drawing a piece for Dungeons & Dragons. I was thinking I would draw a monster from the game and I did but, it wasn’t what I had expected to be inspired to do. This came to me by asking my husband forContinue reading “Peek-a-boo”

Working on Frankenstein

In the background of my life I am drawing and scribbling and making puddles of watercolors and testing foggy washes and drawing messy ink lines on top. As I can’t realistically work full time as an illustrator for more than minimal projects, I am playing. Discovering new elements to myself since I have changed withContinue reading “Working on Frankenstein”

Everyone’s Choice

Where’s the X? It’s HERE! X is for Xenops I am so happy to have these letters finally done! One full set of Alphabet is illustrated. I’m sure one day, if they take off, I will make seconds for the more popular letters. We will see. There is no good reason I left the XContinue reading “Everyone’s Choice”

New Portfolio Piece

I am very excited about my new book project. This is my own story that I am putting into dummy form for submission. I am going to make three or four finished images for the book to put into my portfolio. Here is one of them. This is a cropped section of the image. QuoteContinue reading “New Portfolio Piece”

Ghostly Leaves

Remember my picking up leaves project last year? Well this year I didn’t leave my leaves to languish in a drawer. hehe. I picked this one up Friday and glued it down and painted it all by Sunday! Nothing feels better than getting some projects done. I also did a test image of leaves asContinue reading “Ghostly Leaves”

Baby Fish Mouth

Here is my first go at making an illustration with dots for eyes. It still needs a little work but, I am excited about this new direction. Quote Quiz: “I’m only an elected official I can’t make decisions by myself!”

Fanartica’s Choice

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love to make art of the holiday’s favorite monsters. So it was very fitting when Fanartica posted this weeks theme as 80’s Movie Monsters. <img src="https://caseyg.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/slimmer-flowers.jpg" alt="" title="Slimer" width="487" height="526" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2013" /> Quote Quiz: “I must be catching cold” “No no dear, that was Reverend Harper, whoContinue reading “Fanartica’s Choice”

Drawings for Sale

My need for glasses(edited as my first comment pointed out I spelled classes, oops9-14) has been verified. I have an astigmatism in both eyes brought on by age. The right eye is significantly worse than the left. I am looking forward to getting a pair so I can see again! During my blurry time IContinue reading “Drawings for Sale”

Trying Out All Lanes

Hello September! Time to start back up with the blog and a new schedule. This week my son started preschool Tuesdays and Wednesdays, which means I have 6 hours two days a week where I can work during the day. So far I have just done some cleaning and catching up. There were many emailsContinue reading “Trying Out All Lanes”