New Work for My Children's Illustration Portfolio

I'm trying to get more interaction and storytelling in my images and I've been working on this image (posted on Easter). I think it fits more into the children's book arena than it did before - what do you think?

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone!

A Change of View

Blogger has added a new feature that makes it easy to view your blog several different ways. You can view it as a sidebar, flipcard, mosaic, snapshot or timeslide view – change the blue scroll bar on the top right to see other views. My favs are the snapshot view and the mosaic view. Here's the snapshot view:

And here's the mosaic view:

Learned about this new feature from Alicia Padrón. Thanks Alicia!

Click here to try it out and view my blog differently.

Type "/view" at the end of your address to see your own blog like this.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I know I'm probably behind the times with this, but I just recently watched the movie "The Secret of Kells" and wanted to give it a shout out on St. Patrick's Day. If you haven't seen this movie, rent it, or better yet, buy it! The story is good, but the visuals are so over-the-top awesome.

It's based on the story (folklore?) of how The Book of Kells was created. The beautiful graphic nature of the images just blows me away - as I'm both a children's illustrator and graphic artist, they just give me goosebumps! I don't know much about The Book of Kells, but I've seen glimpes of the art, and it looks gorgeous!

Here are some images from the movie – aren't they awesome?