Chatting About Illustrating Aesop's Fables for IPad

Join me and Mark Mitchell from How to Be A Children's Book Illustrator tomorrow night, Jan 30 on Google Hangout. We're going to chat about my first year as a full time illustrator, the two books I illustrated last year and other projects I've been working on. It's free but you need to register to get the link to Hangout!

http://illustratechildrensbooks.com/illustrating-aesop/

Illustration Friday "Disguise"

Here's a little quick watercolor I did for IF's theme disguise. It was really quick and fun and I need to remember this when I do all of my illustrations. I always like the results of quick and loose better than drawn out and tight...Thanks for looking

Illustration Friday "Beginning"

My illustration for beginning is about starting a new school. I attempted to make the little girl at the end of the line stand out more. I'm not sure if this was completely successful or not. I wonder if less bus and more kids would be more effective? Feedback welcome. thanks!

Illustration Friday "Search"

IF Search

It's been a long time since I participated in Illustration Friday. I put it on hold when I went back to school two years ago.

It felt good to get back into it. I gave myself 90 minutes to finish and didn't overthink the drawing. I get stuck when I think something has to be perfect because it's for someone else and then it seems to take forever. I think I'll try to approach my next "for real" illustration this way. Hopefully....

My Month of Portraits Project

Yesterday I finished a month of watercolor portraits project. It was challenging but since I made a public commitment, it was easy to stick to it and I proved to myself how much a person can actually accomplish "one day at a time."

To see the entire project, please visit my Facebook page here.

This is one of my favorites is below, a painting of my friend's granddaughter.

Month of Portraits Day 9

I painted this cutie's sister yesterday. (She's the the little cherub with her hand under her chin.)

Month of Portraits Days 5-8

My continued progress in painting a monthly portrait during august. Here are Days 5-8. I completely forgot to post them here but the watercolor portraits are being posted daily on my public Facebook page.