New Books

I just received samples of some new Bible Fun Stuff books I illustrated for David C. Cook - Hot Crafts for Cool Kids and How's Your Serve? - full of activities to be used in church school and youth groups.

Greeting Cards

Since I have some time between projects, I've been working on greeting cards again and trying to license my own designs. Anyway, I decided to post some of my older designs, previously published by Gallant Greetings. These were a couple of kid's birthday cards.

New art

Has it really been over a month since my last post? I'm sorry I've been missing in action for so long! I've been working like crazy to finish up final art for another fun Kane Press book. Now that I have a little breathing space before my next project starts, I'm hoping to work on my writing, another promo postcard for September, and possibly start a new blog with my greeting card samples. In the meantime, I'll post a piece from another book that is just being published : "Terrible Trouble in Room 2A", a cute story about a snake loose in a classroom. I was working on this art months before my daughter decided she wanted to buy a snake as a pet. For years, I said "no snakes" to my son, but since Laura was moving into her own apartment at college, it was out of my control - lol! It was just a little creepy for me having Phil the Snake living here for a week or so until she moved...

What I'm working on

I'm finishing up some art for a PreSchool Educational job. This piece reminds me of my truck playing days with my son. We spent many happy hours in the sandbox making up stories about good, heroic trucks and evil, troublemaking trucks. He was so into trucks when he was 2 and 3 years old, I was sure that's what he would end up doing as a career. But he just graduated from college with a degree in Forestry. At least he still gets to drive some types of trucks, and owns a pickup!

New Art

I just received a sample of the July 2009 issue of Highlights High Five Magazine, which has a spread of my art - a "Guess My Riddle" puzzle. I couldn't fit the entire spread on my scanner, but here's most of it. It was fun to work on, especially researching all those cacti. Having been born and raised in the Midwest, I've never acually seen a desert, but I hope to one day!

New Book

I just received a printed sample of the new book I illustrated for Kane Press. The Yum-Yum House is a "Math Matters" book written by Nan Walker - a very funny and clever book that actually makes math fun!

Sunday Afternoon at Herrick Lake

There was nothing much going on last Sunday afternoon, so I decided to go to Herrick Lake and do some people sketching. On such a beautiful, sunny day, it was crowded - people jogging and walking their dogs, fishing on the shore or canoeing on the lake, lots of people just sitting in lawn chairs reading...