November already! The trees still have a lot of their leaves and everything is glowing. I recently took a trip with a friend to the Keene Children’s Literature Festival in New Hampshire. Melissa Sweet, David Wiesner, E.B.Lewis, Bryan Collier and Harry Bliss all did very different and inspiring presentations. I am a huge fan of [...]
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Autumnal
Winds are a-blowing and the leaves are a-turning. Makes me feel like staying in, keeping cozy and planning projects for the winter. Knitting needles have already been clicking…. and I just dug out all of my wool roving – one step closer to needle felting some little characters again. Little Pippin who I made last [...]
Summerings
Why hello there – where did the summer go? I was immersed in illustrating a chapter book for Kids Can Press and it involved a lot of firsts. Not only was it the first time I have created black and white illustrations for a book but I had also worked on them digitally, which is [...]
Spring and things
Well, hello there! My blogging activity didn’t end up getting any livelier as I got caught up in finishing The Little Christmas Elf for Little Golden Books. It was really fun working on this book – lovely folks at Random House and the author Nikki Shannon Smith is really sweet. Dream job really – nice [...]
An illustrator first
I recently finished illustrating a picture book for Kids Can Press called Reaching by Judy Ann Sadler. We are at the stage of checking final proofs before it goes to print and soon we will get to hold the real books in our hands. Exciting. Here is a tiny sneak peek: This book was quite [...]
