I’m SO excited to bring you this latest book project that I illustrated for the publisher Rodale Kids, entitled Breathe Like a Bear: 30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere. It’s written by award-winning children’s singer-songwriter Kira Willey, and it was so much fun to illustrate! It’s a 96-page collection […]
It’s late October, and here in the northeast of England it definitely feels like autumn outside. The sun is setting earlier, the air is crisp and cool, and leaves are crunching underfoot. The year is winding down slowly, and 2018 is on the horizon. And you know what that means — new year, new calendar!
Today’s post was a long time in the making, and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this great project! It’s the Usborne Book of Growing Food, written by Abigail Wheatley, which I illustrated for Usborne Books here in the UK. This is the project that kept me busy up to my eyeballs
A while back I illustrated a very fun flip & draw coloring book for the company Mudpuppy, which I wrote about here. Since then I’ve illustrated two more great products for them, which I’m excited to share! They’re a brand-new format for Mudpuppy — coloring rolls, which are a long piece of coloring paper rolled up
I have another exciting book project to share with you today! First I’ll tell you about the book, and then I’ve got a link to a FREE printable sheet of holiday gift tags illustrated by moi, for all of your holiday gift-giving needs! For the last year or so I’ve been working on a great
I recently received samples of a delightful project I enjoyed working on last year — the Animals of the World Flip and Draw coloring book for Mudpuppy. I’ve always adored Mudpuppy’s product line (and that of their sister company Galison) which is full of cute, colorful, and imaginative books, puzzles, journals, notecards and lots of
I’m excited to share with you a project that’s been a little while in the making and is now all finished: a book of origami papers illustrated by me and published by UK publisher Usborne Books! I received my samples the other day and I couldn’t be happier with the final product. For me, getting
It’s that time again — time for the latest installment in Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery series to be published by Penguin, featuring a cover illustrated by yours truly! The title this time was Dying for a Cupcake, and it had a Fourth of July theme so it’s lots of red, white and
It’s time to share with you the third installment of Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery novel covers: Dead Between the Lines! As always it was a pleasure to work on this book cover with AD Mimi Bark at Penguin Group. This time around the mystery involves gardening, so it was fun working all
In honor of St. Patrick’s day I thought I’d share this illustration which I recently created for the March issue of Connecticut Magazine. It’s a full-page opener for a story called Irish Yearning by David Monagan. The story is a personal essay about the journey of irish immigrants in Connecticut, from his own ancestors
