News

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Book News

Here are links on Amazon to:

John Deere Board Books

Coming out in October!

What's That Sound, Allie Gator?

Coming out in November!

Big Cats Written by Donna Bowman

Big Cats has cool pop-ups and other features!

I will have the books section updated with all this info soon!

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We just returned from our tour on Eastern Europe. It was a fast paced journey including 5 countries! We went to Hungary (Busdapest), Austria (Vienna), Slovakia (Bratislava), Czech Republic (Prague), and Germany (Dresden).

Here are some pictures:

The whole group of travellers: Troy, Rena (who was with us just in Vienna), Mom, George, Ioana, and me.

We had to make a day trip to Dresden since we are such huge fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Prague: Beautiful after a light rain. We had the oportunity to see some original work from Mucha. Amazing! I had no idea the extensive reach in his career.

This had such a feel of "Lord of the Rings" to us. I suppose statuary like this was some of Tolkien's inspiration...

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As usual, I have had a very busy schedule and will have tons to post that is new really soon!

In the meantime, here is one of the latest Purse Pals:

It was interesting to viualize environments for different critters...

I have a several pieces coming out in Scolastic News and Lets Find Out magazines which I will post if I can.

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As promised! Here is the new see-through issue for Scholastic News! See the other side in the portfolio section.

1-18 Happy New Year!

A lot is going on! I will update as I can with pictures.

I have a piece in the www.forclosurecats.org show. Check it out and bid on Ebay for it to help the poor cats involved. Since it was not for print, I played around with metallic paint and jewels.

Unfortunately, this little cat in the picture was missing an eye and then passed away in surgery. The Bysantine Iconography of the piece is strangely serendipitous.

A new piece for Scholastic News comes out this month on the Antarctic. I will post it soon.

11-17 Pictures of the mural I did for "Score! Mountain Learning Center" in Israel!

It was a fun projest where I got to do a more cartoon-ish style. The person I worked with on the project sent these pictures:

Here is the original illustration:

10-07 Show at the Cincinnati Public Library!

From Library's web site: Cincinnati’s Storybook Treasures
A display of original artwork from eleven well-known illustrators with ties to Cincinnati will be on view in the Main Library Atrium and Children’s Learning Center from October 5 to January 6. Many of these illustrators are familiar names, including: Loren Long, Will Hillenbrand, Annie Ruth, Pamela Pease, Andrea Cheng, Carol Schwartz, Caldecott Honor winner Jon Muth, Christina Wald and Heidi Petach. Some of the artists will be at the Main Library on Saturday November 17 (2:00 p.m.) for a special book signing event. Copies of their books will be available for sale in the Friends Shop

Here are my pictures:

This last image is a piece of the painting for an image for the "Big Bear Book" coming soon from Piggy Toes Press.

Here is the final illustration:

I can hardly wait to see this one on the shelves!

More soon!

9-07 It is a busy month as usual!

A toy line I did illustrations for is in stores now (I think Toys R Us and Target). The line is called Purse Pals and I illustrated the interior space for the little critters when the purse opens. The new ones coming out next year are really cool as the designs have gotten more wild and creative. Stay tuned!

7-07 A lot is going on. I just finished two books and will post illustrations soon.

In April, the See-Through Forest Issue for Scholastic News came out.

In May, the See-Through Coral Reef Issue for Scholastic's Lets Find Out and a set of Mythical Beast illstrations for Scholastic's Science World came out.

4-07 Welcome to the relaunch of my website!