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Today the postman brought me the December issue of AlbertaViews Magazine with my work illustrating the Alberta by Numbers section on the back page.  It was a fun little assignment to do and the art director was great to work with.Also today, after almost exactly 5 years, my blog has reached 100 followers. Thanks for being interested in my ...

Because of the all the work involved with the picture book, I really don't have time to create anything new for IF right now.  But when I saw this week's topic, I immediately thought of this image of a very round lady that I painted last summer. ...

This past weekend I finished an illustration for the picture book that I'm working on and I'm quite happy with how it turned out.  I'm not going to share the entire image right now, but here's a little peek at the bottom right corner: ...

This image is an oldie but it's one of my favorites. It's more about the lack of vanity, but I think it's still appropriate for the theme. ...

Today I thought I'd share some sketches from the picture book that I'm working on and show how the spread has evolved.Let me begin by setting the scene.  The first part of this story takes place in the spring and the second part takes place one year later.  Between those two parts, there is one spread that ties them together and that is t ...

I thought it might be interesting to show how much thought and work go into the early planning for the visuals for a book.  Everyone works a bit differently, but this was my approach.Once I had read the manuscript for Bye, Bye, Butterflies!, I started by making a lot of notes about the things in the story that stood out to me and the initial i ...