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Above: I love teacher Colby Sharp‘s enthusiasm for reading and how he shares it with his students. “READING IS AWESOME!” Thanks to Colby for letting me use his classroom as photo reference for some of the illustrations I did for the Judy Blume chapter books. He and my teacher friend Allison . . .
I just bought GO, SHAPES, GO!, a gorgeously illustrated early concept book with such a *fun* story, and it launched TODAY. I’ve been a fan of Denise Fleming‘s work ever since I saw Denise demonstrate her pulp painting process at the SCBWI Illustrator Intensives a few years ago. You can find out more . . .
Inspired by my friend John Chew. 🙂 I revamped the old comic to use updated art as an excuse to play around with my new Alex Dukal cartoonist brushes. Wasn’t sure if that meant I needed to update the copyright notice or not…?
Writers and illustrators: don’t get so caught up in promotion and marketing that you forget to CREATE.
As some of you already know, I’ve been having fun drawing with found objects during the past year: Then just recently, I posted a video of how I created a tomato doodle: https://www.instagram.com/p/sljsjDK9Cu/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=07c1b657-1180-4b83-9ce7-2f7c2c5d0c75 Thanks to middle grade author Rina Heisel for tweeting this, which made my day:
I met Cheryl Rainfield through the Toronto Area Middle Grade/YA Author Group (also known as Torkidlit) and am a big fan of her work (especially SCARS and HUNTED in the past). A survivor of abuse, Cheryl often draws upon her own experience in her intense and highly charged fiction. I love Cheryl’s enthusiasm for kidlit/YA as . . .
I continue to be in awe of you parents out there who manage to carve out time for your writing and illustrating in the midst of taking care of children, household chores and (in some cases) a day job as well. At a recent conference, several working parents told me . . .