Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
I mentioned earlier that I’d be sharing any tips and tools I’ve been using to help me focus. One of the biggest discoveries I made last year is a service called AwayFind. I used to check email obsessively throughout the day. At first it was because I didn’t want to miss . . .
Visiting Gaming Edus, a Minecraft server for educators and students; thanks to children’s book author & educator Liam O’Donnell for the invite. Everyone’s been super-helpful, and one of the students even built me a small stone home complete with helpful signs! You can find out more about GamingEdus here: http://www.gamingedus.org When I . . .
Above: Quickie sketch experiment — First I did the ink drawing by hand using a Pentel Pocket Pen Brush on sketchbook paper. Then I scanned it, imported into Photoshop, and digitally colored the drawing. Happy New Year’s, all! Apologies for the hiatus. Between the Toronto ice storm (we were one . . .
***For those asking whether I’m doing a found object book, please see About My Food Art, Found Object Book Update and Other Found Object Artists. “A Portrait In Ink And Parsley”: click image to see responses when I posted this Found Art doodle on Twitter. (Edit: Thanks so much to Chicago . . .
Back in September, I posted about being obsessed with the WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY? music video, and was trying to identify the children’s picture book featured in the video: Thanks to all who tried to help me. Cathy Ballou Mealey, for example, asked her friend Norwegian children’s book writer and illustrator, Svein . . .
After reading a New York Times article about adult-themed children’s book parodies for adults, I asked you all how you felt about kids’ books for adults. Thanks to all who participated. Most of you are neutral to iffy about them. One person says that children’s book parodies make a fair amount of . . .
(Last updated: December 10, 2013) I have an Etsy shop but haven’t had anything posted for sale in ages (I might start selling prints and some handmade oddities in 2014, though). While doing some holiday shopping on Etsy recently, I became curious about other children’s book illustrators who had shops. I’ve posted . . .
Click image above for print-ready PDF; feel free to use to help spread the word. Prints fine in b&w, too. Founded by suspense writer Jenny Milchman, Take Your Child To A Bookstore Day is about “instilling a love of bookstores in children so that they will value and support this most precious of . . .