Last spring, when new growth appeared on the branches of a huge pine tree in our back yard, I felt inspired by the bright green tips and really wanted to draw them. I finally had the opportunity to the other day, using a photo I took at the time. I'm starting to think about a new personal project to work on in the future, inspired by my family h ...
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Last summer I was contacted by the good people at Pajama Press about illustrating a cover for the middle grade novel: Macy MacMillan and the Rainbow Goddess. It's the second book by Shari Green and is written entirely in verse. It already has one honour: it's a Junior Library Guild 2017 Selection, and it hasn't even been released yet. It comes out ...
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A few months back an old colleague from my advertising days, photographer Wes Raymond, contacted me about doing a time lapse. I've actually wanted to do one for a while so I was pretty happy that he asked. We decided that I'd do a sketch on a summer theme and he'd take photographs while I painted it. The painting took about 2 hours and Wes compr ...
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