Sled Ride Sneaky Peek

Here's a final spread from the Sled Ride book! And here's the sketch, from way back when. I can't believe myself that all the artwork is finished. It's true that you really fall in love with the characters as you draw them over and over. And it's just a little bit scary to be done and sending them off into the big world. But exciting, too.

And now, I'm off to draw Moose!

2012 Illustrator's Gallery (Pinch, Pinch!)

I'm beside myself honored to be among such talented company in the SCBWI Bologna 2012 Illustrator's Gallery! Still pinching myself.

Endings and Beginnings

Above is a detail from a spread I'm working on for the Sled Ride book. I'm heading to the finish line with the final art...

... and here are the different stages of each page crossed off from my thumbnail list. (Very satisfying to see all those "x's" accumulate!) Next it will be time to look everything over for final tweaks and then...












... it's back to the beginning again, with sketches of this fine fellow!

Coming Soon...

This, in the Fall 2012 Sneak Preview, from Publishers Weekly!

2012 Bologna Children's Book Fair

I'm super excited to say that my submission to the SCBWI Illustration Display Portfolio at the 2012 Bologna Children's Book Fair has been accepted! Above is the piece that will be included in the portfolio of member illustrators work. It was Sunday morning happy-dance-time here when the email arrived yesterday!

Now, wouldn't it be lovely if the Illustration Fairy dropped a plane ticket to Italy in my mailbox...

Random doodles sprout between the cracks of other projects...

Still Life with Sketchbook and Pup

Detail