David Opie Illustration

	Monkey and the Engineer This collection shows illustrations from the picture book. The medium for these pictures is a blend of ink, watercolor, and digital color using Photoshop and Corel Painter.
	Master's Thesis: Music of the Spheres These are illustrations that I completed for my master's thesis at the School of Visual Arts. They were based on a story that I wrote, called "Music of the Spheres." Watercolor with touches of gouache and colored pencils.
	Kids - New Work! This gallery shows illustrations of kids from a variety of educational and promotional pieces. I painted the first few pieces in this collection digitally, while the rest are mixed traditional media.
	Animals Lots of furry and feathered animals are in this gallery from educational and promotional projects.
	Irma the Discontented Cow These are illustrations for an educational reading book done mostly in watercolors. In the story, Irma learns the difference between an herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. By the end she decides that she's happy just eating grass.
	Rocky's Road Home - New Collection I painted these watercolors for an educational reading book about a raccoon who thinks that he's in heaven when he winds up in a landfill, but then he starts to miss his old restaurant dumpster.
	Editorial Illustrations I have included a few choice magazine illustrations in this collection. These were done mostly in watercolor, with some ink and pastel pencil.