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I made it through the Women of the Page panel at the Frick Art & Historical Center without tripping, burping or falling off my chair. Great news! It was a fun night and I got to see the Draw Me a Story exhibit, too. Well, sort of. I wasn’t wearing my glasses, so I didn’t really get to read all …

So on my way out the door after that panel discussion at the Frick Art & Historical Center (that I told you about here), Susan Bails, another one of the nice Assistant Curators of Education there, stopped me and asked if I was going to be busy April 14. It’s a Saturday. She said they were having a Family Day at …

Here’s that little accordion player girl in color. I wasn’t thinking of this when I drew the sketch, but when I was figuring out what colors to use, that raincoat absolutely had to be yellow which automatically required this little girl’s hair to be blue. Don’t all little girls who wear yellow raincoats have blue hair?

The next image I drew for my Sketchbook Project 2012 sketchbook was this little accordian player.

Each year, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) mans a booth at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and they take along a portfolio of pieces from selected members. I entered my work and was selected to be a part of that portfolio, along with just 39 other people. I’m very grateful and excited that my illustrations will be …

I’m starting to believe root canals have their benefits if maybe you’re a creative person. I’m starting to believe this because I’m trying to find a bright side. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve endured yet another one, and it got me thinking about pain and what in this world I can do about it. A little over a …

And then this would be that little knitter guy after he got himself a little color.

One of the things I wanted to put an effort into once I got the book printed was organizing school visits to talk about it. I decided that before I started trying to put a school visit schedule together, it would be a good idea to give schools a reason to have me there. Yeah, that would be a really …

The sketch for the next page of my Sketchbook Project project: a knitter.

Here you go. The wrinkly dog in color. The further I get in the sketchbook, the heavier I seem to be applying the spray fixative. I started out worried about when I was working on the back of a page, how the page on the other side would rub and transfer to the page opposite it. So I’ve been laying …

It looks like the book is a little more official now. Quality Books created a Publisher’s Catalog in Publication for Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain Vol. 1, and it’s now printed on the copyright page of both the hard cover and paperback editions of the book. There was a brief burp while the new text files were uploaded to the printer, …

At the end of January I submitted a page of my illustrations for possible inclusion in the SCBWI portfolio at the Bologna Book Fair, and this would be the page I submitted. The portfolio selection team notified me that my page was chosen to be included (yay!). Not only will it be in a physical portfolio at the book fair, …