Here's the rest of the process photos I mentioned the other day.The book is pretty much finished, I'm just making the final adjustments to the files. My husband printed out some color copies for me at his work yesterday (he works in printing). He even trimmed them and bound them so I could see what the book will look like. I'm pretty happy with ...
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This is the final version of what the cover will look like (except that it looks a bit washed out here).© 2007Dario's been gone almost a week, but he'll be home in a few hours :)And I finished the last painting for the children's book this afternoon :)And I'm almost finished tweaking the design :)It's a good day. ...
Read MoreMy husband has been gone for several days now and I've been quite busy. I'm still choked about having to cancel a week of vacation plans, but we managed to move our holiday to the following week and have worked out an alternate plan. I'm just really looking forward to a break. I desperately need one. I'm almost finished the book. I'm half way t ...
Read More© 2007Here's the painted front and back covers for the Children's book I'm working on. I'm pretty happy with the colours in the original painting, but depending on which computer screen I see it on, the colours can look quite acidic. I really hope the colours come out okay when it gets printed.After 3 months of not seeing my friends and having no ...
Read MoreHere's the sketch for the front & back cover of the children's book I've been slaving away on for the past two and a half months. I think I might have inadvertantly squished this scan of it a bit in photoshop because it looks a bit weird to me, but you get the idea. I'm going to put the title of the book on the fence and my name and the author's ...
Read MoreThis is my illustration from the June issue of the Utne Reader. I really should have written about this sooner, but with all the chaos around the book I'm working on, it slipped my mind. It was my first time being published in an American magazine so it was a big deal for me. Hopefully some of you saw it. It's a really good issue. The art dire ...
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