I collaborated with a friend from across the ‘pond’ and this is what we came up with… I hope to have more to tell you some day in the near future.

Go get em, A!

This guy might have slipped between the verses in Romans but someone noticed him in verse 16:23. Erastus is only mentioned briefly but we know that he was a city official. This illustration will be used in a short sermon for children this weekend.
In other news, I’m experimenting a bit with my technique… this image shows some of that and I’ve got some others as well I’ll be posting soon. Thanks for looking!

I’ve had a great time working with independent authors who are venturing out and self-publishing their work. Baxter the Brontosaurus is one of those projects and I’m pleased with how it turned out. The author is very young and I just loved the character his illustrations had and how they worked with his story. I think his Mom wanted to give him a nice gift by having the book printed with professionally made illustrations. I did my best to keep his original ideas intact while also adding my expertise to the project.

The original illustrations are below so you can see how I re-interpreted his drawings. I hope he continues to imagine and create new books! He’s got talent!

5 loaves and 2 fishes?!

Where've you been?!

Hey ho!  Here are a few pieces I made for some Sunday school materials.

I’ve really enjoyed being part of a local Run Camp this winter. We are training for a half marathon in April and it’s been fun! Our camp captain is a lot of fun and has deemed our group the Plaidiators with our team color being plaid! Of course. This pic is my contribution to team spirit. I think we’ll be talking team shirts this weekend… I hope so!

I tend to neglect this blog when things get busy… so if you don’t see any posts for a while that should be a good thing!

I do have a few things to post to get things up to date and back on track. I’m starting with a cover image I created for a 4th grade history reader. The book this was made for is filled with stories from history about kids who grew up to become well-known historical figures. The boy in the boat is a young Leif Ericcson on a quest to discover the New World! I also created several interior images for this book so I’ll post those soon as well.

A short time ago I sat down to figure out what to do for a Christmas card. After numerous drawings of Santa dancing I finally decided to nix the whole thing and go with A Christmas Carol! Merry Christmas!

I had the pleasure of working on the design and illustration for a self-published childrens book a few months ago. Stephanie Wuthnow approached me with her idea for a story that would teach kids about music. The book is called A Musical Mouse in a Rhythmical House and is about a mouse who discovers rhythm with the help of her uncle, a cat, Mrs. Beckman and two children! I thought it sounded like a great idea so we set about creating the book together. You can buy the book from the her website but here are a few of my favorite illustrations from the book.

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Awesome!

I had the opportunity to make this little cartoon regarding the proposed health care bill. Sounds like it’s a doosy .

Lucy's Beard

A recent post on my brother-in-law’s Facebook page said…

Tonight before bed, Lucy said, “Daddy, can you take off your beard so I can try it on?”

It made me laugh out loud!  I could almost see the scene taking place so here is how I imagined it.  I wonder how long it would be before she’d decide it wasn’t any fun anymore .