Welcome to My Whimsical World

Creating imaginative, playful educational books, tools, interactive lessons & whimsical illustration for children & adults.

My Project in the Making

What if bird imagery could help you embrace your strong feelings? Introducing The Aviary in My Head. Check out my process creating this very special project here.

What's New

Courses

Coming this Fall. Learn Digital Illustration in these online email classes.

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Take The Sensitive Quiz

Are you a Sensitive Creative? World feels overwhelming sometimes? I wrote a book on that with 50 tools. Take the quiz!

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Halloween Prompts

Each year I would create creative prompts for the month of October. Get a head start and play and jump start your imagination.

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Creative Student Project Highlights That Inspire Learning & Creativity

DAR 120 SPRING SEMESTER 2026 (Pima Community College) STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS ZAHRA REYES, FINAL ZINE BASED ON A SONG (Photoshop, Indesign) STEVE BULLIS, ONE PAGE ZINE IN (Learning Indesign layout) ALIX x, FINAL ZINE ILLUSTRATION BASED ON A SONG (Indesign, Illustrator) NATALIA SERRANO, KID'S ACTIVITY BOOK SPREAD (Learning Indesign layouts) ILLIANA TOLEDO, COLLAGE STORY (Learning Photoshop Layers) Nicola Larkin, Self Portrait, (Learning Photoshop Brushes) Cooper Kilborn, Fruit Sal

Ronni Rose Swanson

May 20

Students Take On Matisse Jazz

In my DAR120 classes we created artwork inspired by Matisse's Jazz while learning how to create with flat shapes in Adobe Illustrator. The circus, 1947, Matisse Here's the Design Brief for the assignment. Here's some of the masterpieces. :) Nina Boger Luis Ferre Amberlin Fleming

Ronni Rose Swanson

Feb 2