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I thought I would share the initial sketch that sparked the notion of the winter illustration. It lay dormant in my sketchbook for a long time but I was able to use it for something bigger. Draw something every day, kiddies, you never know when you’ll use it.

I have a relative carte blanche for these covers, but I try to fit the zeitgeist of the season in a children’s illustration style theme. This winter, we’ve been watching the 2010 Winter Olympics play out in Canada with it’s inspiring stories and feats of athletic strength and grace.

As you might remember, I promised you a peek at the final illustration I was working on for the SCBWI. Well, here it is. If it weren’t well past my bedtime, I might be compelled to write some more about it. That will have to wait until later. This is what the artwork looks in [...]

I wanted to share a bit of an inside peek at my illustration process for a recent piece I did for the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Newsletter Cover. The image is a fall theme. I chose this vignette of a little mouse couple relaxing on a cold autumn afternoon by their fireplace. This is the very first [...]

Hey, IF folks! It’s been a long, long time since I posted an entry for Illustration Friday. It’s a bit of a stretch, but hey, that’s creativity. “Kelly knew she had to modify her jumps to get max air in her cheer routine.” This piece is digitally colored. Yay!