Wow, time is flying—but it's finally Children's Book Week! Hooray! I remember writing about this in cold wintery March and thinking May was a long ways away, but wow did it arrive fast. In case you have forgotten, Children's Book Week...
Yesterday I went to say hello & good-bye & ROCK ON to a few of my former RIT illustration students. They are graduating in 2 weeks and going out into the reaaaaal world. I spoke with these students at the...
Has it been a very busy start to May for you too? Last week was so busy with books and art that I didn't even get a chance to blog about what I was doing! Thankfully, I'm working at a...
Hooray for Friday and hooray for Spring sunshine here in upstate New York! It's been a busy week getting back into the swing of book design and painting. My plan today is to have a great day at my drawing...
I've been away visiting my parents for an extended weekend. It was a lovely retreat from my day to day hussle of running my own business. I got to lounge on comfy couches reading books and I even fell asleep...
Thank you for all your help with the Minted Competition. I'm still waiting to hear the results. In the meantime I've entered into another card competition! This one is called the UN Show It celebrates design on all sorts...
In between book design and introducing myself to new publishers across the country I was able to find time to sit down and draw this week. It was an afternoon of explosive creativity! I was able to compose 3 new...
{print from the wheatfield} After several weeks of "Second Winter" Rochester is now enjoying Spring-like weather. Yay! What does that mean exactly? Well, the cynical side of me says, "That means it's now gray and rainy out." But I'm...
GIFT ALERT! With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduations coming up in the next few months I thought I'd share with you a REALLY NEAT book. It's a book about books (huge grin). It's called MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF and in...
It's Spring and I've hit favorite time to paint and create. I wanted to share with you one of my newest paintings! I call it Star Gazing and it features a Mother Rabbit and her Little Daughter snuggled together...