Well, not quite .  This was a quick cartoon for one of my clients to advertise their services.

And now for something a little different!  I was asked to do this retro-styled piece for one of my clients and thought it sounded like a good challenge!  I’d love to dig into this technique a little more and see where it takes me.  I’ve also been taking some figure drawing classes at the KIA and those have definitely been helping me identify problem areas in my art.

Till next time!  Thanks for stopping by.

Hey Ya’ll (ala’ Paula Dean), today’s my birfday so I took the day off!  Woo!  Hoo!  Had a little Lee’s chicken, downloaded some iPod apps, and did a drawing for sketchoholic.com.  Today Bobby Chui is interviewing Humberto Ramos so I’m doing a fun drawing for the related drawing contest.

While you are here check out the book page I’ve added to the site!  I’ve linked most of the books I’ve worked on and it’s neat to see everything in one place .

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.

I have been doing flannelgraphs for one of my clients and I really enjoy it!  It really takes me back to the days I had to sit in a circle with other kids and listen to a Bible lesson illustrated with fuzzy backed characters.  Below you’ll find some characters from the Prodigal son story and also a tree .