Willceau Illo News

Whole Orange Blender Cake

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Tina Garceau

An easy cake – blend a whole orange in a blender, add sugar, eggs and butter. Then pour in a bowl and add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Bake and you have a lovely cake. If you like, you can top it off with a glaze. Continue reading →

Posted in Lovin' from the Oven, News | Tagged baking, cake, oranges, quick cakes | 2 Comments

Heavenly Sketchbooks are what you make of them

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Joe_Williams

I finished up a 7-inch by 10-inch Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook which I turned to once I got tired of chasing down cheap sketchbooks. I have had a lot of luck with small sketchbooks, but it seems that my luck has been running out. Sometimes they were great, but lately they have been terrible. It was better to go with something I could count on. Such is the case with this Canson which worked out pretty well. Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook | Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, sketchbook, USA | 2 Comments

Caturday

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Tina Garceau

Posted in Caturday | Tagged South Philly, window cats | 1 Comment

Halloween Heads • The Mummy

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Joe_Williams

I know Halloween is 184 days away, but being a dyed-in-the-wool horror movie fan, I always seem to be in the Halloween Spirit!

I started doing my series of Halloween Head vector illustrations almost 20 years ago with a simplified Frankenstein Monster done in Adobe Illustrator. I really started to chase down my vectorized villains and other digital designs with the release of the superlative Affinity Designer a little over ten years ago. Some of these monsters fall together fairly quickly while others are a bit of a struggle. Such is the case with The Mummy of which I have had a number of false starts. My gallery of rogues demanded an ancient Egyptian still alive over the millennia, and I think I may have finally got him.
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Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Vector Illustration | Tagged Cartoon, digital illustration, Egypt, Halloween, horror, Joe Williams, Karloff, Mummy, spooky, The Mummy, undead, Willceau | 3 Comments

Rhubarb Peach Pie

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Tina Garceau

It’s spring, and rhubarb has made an appearance in the market. Usually that would result in a strawberry rhubarb pie, but I decided to shake things up and substitute peaches for the strawberries. It was heavenly! Continue reading →