I just got home from watching this documentary at the Central Library in downtown Calgary. I loved it. It was both moving and inspiring. As someone who hopes to have a career in picture books for children, this film gave me a lot to think about. Also, it's really interesting to see the faces of some very well known authors of children's liter ...

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I LOVE tomatoes.  They're one of my favorite things to eat, especially fresh ones from my mom's garden in the summer.These lovely heirloom tomatoes were a gift from a friend of mine, purchased at a local farmers market.  They're such a beautiful, dark color that I had to photograph them, and I'll eventually paint them.  They were del ...

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I've been a bit slow to make a Facebook Page for my illustration work.  Some of the illustrators that I admire have them, and some don't.  I wasn't sure if I needed one, but here's what I've come to realize: some people read blogs, some people are all about twitter and some people only use Facebook.  There are people out there, such ...

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I've known about this since the end of July, but I didn't want to say anything until the contract had been signed. Now that it's all official, I'm so happy to announce that I'm illustrating a picture book with Canadian publishers Fitzhenry & Whiteside. It's a really great story called Bye, Bye, Butterflies by Andrew Larsen, who is the author ...

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I finally got around to purchasing a new scanner this past weekend. My previous one produced terrible quality scans. See this post to see what I mean. I bought the Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner and so far it works great. Does anyone else have this scanner and if so, any thoughts? I found a lot of reviews for it in terms of scanning photog ...

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