My sister Karen and her family recently went on a vacation to Florida, and while there visited an aquarium where they were able to swim with the dolphins.  It was her favorite experience of the week, so of course that is what I incorporated for this years birthday card.  My brain struggled with a catch phrase to go along with the dolphin theme, but I came up blank.  Thus the trite, but still applicable flipper thing.  I usually do the cards in Prisma, but this one is watercolor.

Another project for my brother in-law, Randy.  He has a strange, confrontational relationship with an apparently cranky, mean, and down right abusive bank teller that goes by the name Bea.  He has no clue why she treats him so badly and she used to get under his skin, but after a while he decided to give as good as he was getting, and they have been throwing barbs back and forth at each other with reckless abandon whenever he does his banking.  I find it rather odd for Randy to give this nasty teller a Valentines gift, but he wanted a caricature as a kind of smack down, and this is the scene he described for me to draw and color which he will present to his nemesis on the 14th.  This is done in pen and Prismacolor.