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More art, busy week!

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Got another piece of art knocked out for tomorrows News & Record's front page. This one is on the hazards of summer. Blessed to be so busy this time of year! I had to get a cute spider in there for those who know I love to draw bugs!

New art: Yard Sales!

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

New art that will run this Sunday in the News-Record's Life section on yard sale tips. I think I went a bit nutty with the color pallet this time around. But I just love color and it been a bit gray and gloomy weather-wise in Greensboro lately.

Polarized

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:08:00 +0000

New art for this Sunday's Ideas section in the News & Record on how the country and government has become more polarized than ever.

Earth Day 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:46:00 +0000

Finally, the Earth Day page is printing this Sunday in the News & Record's Life Section. We have lots of great tips on ways to go green with pets, plus wildife care and places you can volunteer to help our animal friends in the Triad. Everyone have a great animal loving weekend and blessed Earth day!

New Ideas section art

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:02:00 +0000

New art for this Sunday's Idea section in the News & Record. The story is by Chip Ward and it's a letter of apology to his granddaughter for using up energy resources among other things.

Margaret gets her illustration game on!

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:47:00 +0000

Just sent some samples of my work to a good friend who works for Hanes for a possible freelance job. Anyone out in the blog world who sees this and needs some freelance illustration email me on my contact page. Thanks and have a blessed weekend!

Get grilling, no squirrels please

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:53:00 +0000

I guess grilling is really a year-round thing now but with the weather being so nice lately we decided to do a

story that will run next Sunday on the Basics page in the News & Record on grilling tips.

Yes the young ladies hair is inspired by Katniss of Hunger Games. And thats a total veggie offering on the grill, no squirrels!

FAT CAT MONDAY

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:43:00 +0000

Nothing like coming in on a Monday and knocking out an illustration for the books page. This will run next Sunday in the News & Record. The story is about who is responsible for the recent economic fall. Meow!

Sneak peak Earth Day art

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:22:00 +0000

This years (work in progress) Earth day art is inspired by my daily trips walking my dog to the bog garden near my home. This will be packaged with information on honoring the animal, ways we can gave give back to our animal friends. Hope the spider does not scare anyone!

WINNER N.C. PRESS AWARDS

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:58:00 +0000

I won first place in the graphics category in this years N.C. Press Awards. The judges comments were "Nice style and versatility, good use of space and colors...well done."
Two of the three pages I researched and wrote as well as creating the graphics for them.

Audio Books

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:30:00 +0000

New art that will run this Sunday in the Books section of the News & Record about audio books.

New art for the Technology page

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:59:00 +0000

I'm just finishing up new art to run this Sunday on the News & Record's technology page. The story is about how folks use multiple monitors now to stay up on what is going on. I added the busy bee as a comical touch.

Shop at my spoonflower shop

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:44:00 +0000

I have lots of great fabric designs for sale at my spoonflower shop. Here are a few that are available.

Visit spoonflower.com and search for margart. Thanks!

New Ideas art

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:06:00 +0000

New art about funding for smoking prevention programs and teenagers for a story running this Sunday in the Ideas Section of the News & Record.

Swing Dancing

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:35:00 +0000

New art that will run this Thursday in Go Triad about Swing Dancing couples in the Triad.

Veggie people

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:39:00 +0000

This Illustration I did a while back I call Veggie people. It may make a nice fabric design or idea for a childrens book.

New Ideas illustration

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:50:00 +0000

New art to run this Sunday in the Ideas section of the News & Record about Red and Blue States and where they shop and eat. I opted for goodwill between my parties. Wish the same could be said for the real party lines.

Sleepy Monday

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:04:00 +0000

New art for an upcoming story in the News & Record about sleep. Owls are so much fun to draw.

New art

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0000

New art that will run this Sunday in the News & Record for a story on clutter removal in your home.
Some great tips by Sharon Kreighbaum, author of "Is Your House Overweight?" Mine is for sure!

Winter injuries art

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Wow, blessed with so many assignments I got behind posting this one. A story on winter injuries. It ran Tuesday in the News & Record

Resolutions

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:01:00 +0000

Back to work! Did a quick illustration on New Year's Resolutions that will run tomorrow in the News & Record. The way resolutions float in and out of my monkey brain I could have filled that nest with a lot more eggs!

Happy New Years!

Happy Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:14:00 +0000

Winding up my Holidays illustrations with this hipster Santa for Go Triad.

Taking some well deserved time off and will get back to work later next week.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Margaret

New illustration for Ideas section

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000

New illustration for this Sunday's Ideas section on auto standards. Read it in the News & Record

New holiday illustration

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:53:00 +0000

New art that will run this Saturday in the News & Record on things that can go wrong during the holidays. This sketchy style is good to use when you have lots of assignments to do. Typical holiday season for us in the art department.

Shop at my Zazzle store. Thanks!

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret Baxter) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:37:00 +0000

You can shop for all kinds of cool stuff at my Zazzle shop.