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 [...]
Just my first cut at using the software Artrage to digitally “paint” one of my drawings. I kinda like it. It was hard adjusting to the radically different interface (I’m used to Photoshop…love CS3!) but hey, it had some features that I couldn’t get in the beloved CS3. This was a drawing I did [...]
Eliza Dolittle is a character that has always fascinated me. I read the play, Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) in middle school and it was years until I saw Audrey Hepburn (one of my favs) play Eliza in the musical, My Fair Lady. I love the undercurrent idea in the story of Pygmalion that happiness isn’t [...]
Perhaps this might be Mowgli’s love interest in the Jungle Book. I do so love Kipling and read all of his stories as a young child. I remember feeling the terror inspired by Shere Khan, the tiger nemesis of all the jungle. I do love a good story and Mr. Kipling had a way with [...]
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