A bit of showing the progress of a piece–the sketch & final of part of the over-all image, as well as other clips.

Shameless advertising (Isn’t that what this blog is for…? : )

This little girl witch image was part of a promotional I did with the Illustration For Kids gang. Eventually it was modified a bit, and ended up being licensed for a “Happy Halloween, Granddaughter” greeting card. Nice to see it get some use!

Some personal work that I used for my Facebook and Twitter pages that I had a lot of fun doing. I even made a simple pattern! More to come, hopefully.

This post looks a lot like the last one, I know! : ) Since this blog is primarily about work and illustration, I’m sharing  what I have illustrated that is presently out in print. The following illustrations were created for a poem by Eileen Spinelli for Highlights’ High Five magazine (I illustrated another poem of hers in this poster). I had a lot of fun with this but struggled with the main girl somewhat in the rough stages (well, also the final)! She was deemed a bit “homely” in the roughs and I just couldn’t see it. In the end, it was surrounding her nose (I had it too large), and changing it to a more smallish, “button” nose did the trick (Thanks, Kelley!) Again, my thanks to Highlights (and High Five!) for the project!

(Copyright–Highlights/HighFive Magazine)

Below are illustrations for a fun spread I did for Highlights magazine’s August ’13. The story (entitled “Bear and Max”, by Julie Dillemuth) is about a cat with two names as the consequence of acquiring two families–who don’t know about each other (someone I know calls a cat who does that “double-dipping”!). My thanks to Highlights for the pleasure to create the illustrations!

(copyright Highlights For Children)