Beth Haidle

Rattlesnake in the Road

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:16:49 GMT

Amazing music by Kate Mann...I was privileged to make this piece for her new album!

Stitchin' girl

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:11:50 GMT

More peaceful, snowy scenes...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:27:08 GMT

...from current children's book project. It snowed enough here, this spring, for me to paint from life rather than photos! I'm not a skier, so I have to learn to appreciate it as a lovely landscape, filling my window.

sketchy business card

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:12:41 GMT

Every once in awhile, I get to do a drawing-based design...I doodle amuck in a sketchbook and then just spend the final few minutes on the computer. I like that the client was feeling adventurous about the red-pink color scheme I proposed...

Community Doodle Nite! northern Taos area...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:49:13 GMT

I'm running this on Friday nites in April. If yer local, come on by! Also if you are far away, but have private helicopter, we have a nice field for landing in, just to the left of the art center.

Lettering/Doodle mash

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:36:30 GMT

Predator versus Prey

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:33:30 GMT

I'm not sure what my obsession with bird-headed women is about...but it's been going on for some time. The above is in a group show at Eggman & Walrus gallery in Santa Fe this month....I had meant to don my life-size sparrow-headdress and romp around on opening nite, but deadlines are keeping me up late at night as it is, so some things have gotta go from the to-do list, no matter how fun.

From current book project with Parvenu Publishing

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:27:59 GMT

Due in June, along with a sequel....to be published (in Dutch) this coming Fall 2012. Crossin' my fingers for a future english translation!

More sketch mash...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:24:46 GMT

"Octo-Kettle" image from current book project

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:53:04 GMT

Having a grand time mixing digital coloring and hand-drawn line/shading....the image is from a scene in the book, inside an ice-cream factory, of a tentacled copper kettle machine. As I was intimidated about painting this, I just rendered it in graphite, added a watercolor wash to the arms, and scanned it in. Digitally, I layered multiple transparent golden tones to the kettle body, until I got the look just right.

ART CAR - driving should be more interesting

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:46:34 GMT

An update on the car stencilling...was about to throw these hulk foam fists out, when moving last....and I noticed the color green matched the spray paint I'd added a year ago, so with the help of some super-glue, the Hulk-Mobile was born! I must say, I thoroughly recommend having fun with your car's appearance. I wish I'd done this long ago...some stressful life events at the time of this, made the act a symbolic one for me, so I'd have a visual of 'strength' and remember to keep breathing and carrying on. Yet, after I'd passed thru the events, the fists remained, and now a side bonus is that wherever I drive, I have people honking, waving, smiling...even screaming affirmations of love for my car. Which is a real mood-lifter, I tell you. I plan on holding a 'Car Transformation Workshop' later this spring (when the wind ceases howling) so, if you are a New Mexico resident & are interested, shoot me an email to get on the info-list for that. Commuting might possibly become an enjoyable task, with more of these on the road!

Homemade postcards

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:42:54 GMT

Yes, I still take time to make home-made postcards...the fact that you can place a tiny sticker on it and have it appear at your dear friend's door, is still a magical thing to me. Although pony-express would be a little more romantic. Actually, I am a fan of the whole carrier pigeon thing...thought that would mean the art would need to be somewhat microscopic. Anyhow, not that my schedule allows for this really, but I dragged these around in my work bag for over a month before I found the perfect 10 minutes...waiting in the dentist's office.

Artist-in-Residence Talk @ Herekeke

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:35:28 GMT

I'll be giving a 'variety show' of current projects underway, here in my studio at Herekeke (a printmaking studio & art center here in the luxurious mountainscape of Lama, northern New Mexico). I've been here for a month already, and am wishing it could somehow last forever. Easy to get attached to the views, the peace and quiet...both are rather helpful, as I've been at my desk working for at least 10 hours a day, if not more, to keep the plates spinning! If you are in the area, send me an email and I'll get you the details. Potluck @ 6, talk & slideshow at 7:30.

TINA and her PONY - album design

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:26:32 GMT

Yippee - this just came in, hot off press. (musical albums are my favorite thing to illustrate!) And quality bluegress like Tina And Her Pony...don't git much better..

(note: this is my original design; some fonts/text had to be changed later) * photography by Sparrow Photo....giant bird head created by me. Horse head was a rental...

figure drawing in Berlin

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:40:10 GMT

'Raven-Boy' book proposal sent off!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:18:05 GMT

Yippee! Feels good to have this off my desk and into the hands of editors...it's a myth about the waking of the Moon, and a time before the division of Light & Dark. I slipped in various diagrams that were inspired by my studying of the tarot, and also my indispensable Taschen book: Alchemy & Mysticism. I recently took my life abroad for 4 months & this item was one thing that I sorely missed!

Anatomy of a Fish

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:16:16 GMT

things I'm thinkin' about on a typical Friday morning...

Unusual Valentine's gifts...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:23 GMT

In case you'd like to celebrate with a bizarre gift, why not send my monster-hybrid-family mug? Or if you are feeling more traditional, or at least thrifty, I just put up a 'Portrait of a Heart' V-day postcard. Which also could be used as an emphatic 'thank-you' card all year round...(available thru Zazzle - click this link to find page)

Layout progress...for 'Raven Boy' graphic novella

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:43 GMT

Crier Brothers - impending e-book

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:06:18 GMT

little bit musical, bit arty, bit literary. Itsa thing of the future......! I had a ball doing the images. Thx guys

Enigmatic image...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:27 GMT

I think this posting is best left without an explanation for now....

More notes from the road....

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:32:20 GMT

Let's see...random motley here...roughs for some images to go in the Amsterdam Occupy newspaper, entitled 'AMY' (after the hurricane by that name, apparently) and... attempts to record spastic jazz performance, live @ the Amsterdam conservatory...a bit easier to sit on a bench, later, in Barcelona - and sketch an immobilized plaza.

More travel sketches...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:29:29 GMT

Bits from Antwerp & Amsterdam...I wish I could take credit for the gorilla-mermaid thing, but I copied that out of an unusual advert in Belgium...didn't see the artist's name...also some more of my favorite train station - really infuriating to draw something that is so huge and unattainable but I'll keep trying, nonetheless. The 'Sky' on building - is a drawing from a photo where that was apparently wheat-pasted, large scale. Cool.

Sketching the elusive fox...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:20:59 GMT

though the first one looks more like a racoon somehow...

Illustration portfolio update...at Red Fox Literary

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:17:34 GMT

Check out my latest book illustration samples here

I must say - I am pleased as punch to have my name in such (online) proximity to Henrik Drescher, a real art-hero of mine from waaay back. He is also represented by the newly-formed Red Fox Literary, which I joined this year.