Good bye my little Angel, Rest in Peace

This week I lost my best friend. Cookie was a long hair dachshund. She was born in March of 1998 and she died May 2013, she was 15.

She was at my side for all that time, a true and loyal companion. My heart is broken as she was my baby. She pass at home with me at her side.

She lived fierce, never letting her handicap get her down. She was an inspiration to everyone who met her. She touched so many with her awesome attitude.

Words can not express how my heart aches with her loss. She will be missed.

2004

2009

Cookie 2009

she smiles

Cookie in 2010

2003

Me and Cookie, 2008

Early in 2013

Dear Cookie, My little angel, I love you forever,  rest in peace.

Skyscraper

Too much growth © Heidi Younger

I've actually seen this, where turtles create these vertical lines, stacking themselves on top of each other.
This was for the famed art director SooJin Buzelli for an article that ran in PlanSponsor Magazine.
She is such a great art director to work for, who knows the true secret of distilling. A simple statement; for me it was "too fast a growth that it causes immobility."
I did other sketches, but this one came to me the morning I was to submit the sketch. I originally had a larger stack, with more turtles on top. But in SooJin's designer wisdom she said 3 was it!

Sleeping is Good: Read

Contributor Page: March 2013 Experience Life Magazine

Photo by Roxana Gheorghe 

Rejected photo

Thanks to the excellent art direction of Lydia Anderson, I got to illustrate a feature article for Experience Life Magazine,  March 2013 issue, out now.

Part of the deal was a bit on the Contributor's page.

I needed a photograph of me, that is always hard.

So luckily I know an awesome photographer. Roxana Gheorge came to shoot me and my dogs.

Poor little Cookie, she couldn't even keep her eyes open. It was clearly her nap time. 

Ironically the article was about SLEEP.....

Here's Roxana's website: http://www.effectivecommunicationsolutions.com

Nice Layout! 

Throughout the story I put a doxie, Lucy, in the illustrations. So it was great she ended up being photographed too.

Experience Life Magazine; opening piece

Experience Life Magazine

Ear Series - 1 ear pull: acrylic and gold leaf

Ear Series- Inner Ear

Ear Series- Outer Ear

Continuing The Pink Head series AKA Yoga Lady series....
Acrylic on board, (and gold leaf on Ear Pull).

This time our lady is interacting with the dude's ear.... why exactly?

Honestly I am not sure. Yet again trying to get attention, perhaps?

Fact, I can't stop. Just too much  to explore with Pink Heads, plus its fun to keep playing with this theme.







All created 2013.
© Heidi Younger

Valentines Day Leads to Love Land

acrylic on board © Heidi Younger

Me and the girls

Lovely Lucy

The New York Times Illustration

Color version for the web published 1/9/13


A few weeks ago I got to illustrate Mark Bittman's column for the Dining section of The New York Times.

It was about an amazing sauce that has the power to conjure memories of the Mediterranean.

The focus is on three main ingredients, Fennel, Olives and tomatoes. yum!

I started off concentrating my efforts on the ingredients, especially fennel. I had fun drawing that, oh and olives.

But the gist of the piece wasn't about the ingredients, it was about the magical transformation into the warmth of the Mediterranean coast.

Black and White version was published 1/9/13

First sketches, wrong focus. But fun fennel!

© Heidi Younger

Happy New Year 2013

2013 Year of the Snake

color variants

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!
Looking forward to a great new year!



© Heidi Younger

Silly Lucy, I found her like this.