This illustration was originally created for a documentary film, but has been the basis for many other pieces as well. The background is from an old photo of the street where I grew up. It's now available as stock illustration. Profile Stock.
While working on the sketches for Jeoffry's Halloween, my editor hinted that "nothing is what it seems to be on halloween." I really liked that, and it helped me interpret the text which was very poetic and enigmatic.
I am re-posting this image, because I have been too busy to upload anything new, and I can't show the projects I am working on yet because of client confidentiality... (although my students have seen some of them in progress.) So here is Amelia, a dreamer and adventurer.
As the Health Insurance debate rages on (for how many more decades???) one of my pieces is featured this week in Profiles Issue #8 .
These are two from of a series of illustrations I did for National Geographic about stories ancient people told about the constellations. Just a few stars would become dragons eating the sun, scorpions chasing Orion, bears chased by hunters or hounds chasing Lepus the rabbit. Perhaps its the city lights that keep us from seeing those stories in the night sky, or maybe its this flickering screen distracting us and muddling our imagination...
Piglet writes a letter. This was for Disney Products for a line of stationery. I did 2 paintings for them, one of Piglet and one of Pooh. They never actually used any of the art, and I'm not sure the stationery was ever produced, but it was a fun gig anyway.
This is the jacket art I recently finished for A Very Little Princess,
a chapter book about a girl named Zoey who, one morning finds out she has a grandmother named Hazel (isn’t that a witch’s name?) She also finds out that friends sometimes come in unexpected sizes, and maybe with a little attitude. I also illustrated 22 interior pictures for the book. It was fun drawing Zoey's curly out of control hair, and the princess's snooty attitude. Marion Dane Bauer is the author.
Pub date: February 23, 2010
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Looking forward to Friday night and the ABC gala– where? ... really? Brooklyn USA!!! Well, its nice to have an excuse to dress up & visit my old hometown.
Art from "A Very Little Princess" (Random House / Feb '10)
From Molly and the Prince, a book by Mary Pope Osborne that I illustrated a while ago. Sometimes its nice to revisit the back catalog.
This was for a collection of lullabies for Sony/BMG music. Art direction by Gina Bello of Bello Design.
This is a book jacket I illustrated for Farrar, Straus & Giroux last year and now the book is in stores. It was written by Thomas Cochran and is a beautiful coming of age novel. It takes place in Louisiana during a rare (and inconvenient) white Christmas. The snow challenges the story's young hero to confront his morals and fears as he "...learns that even though life doesn’t always follow your plans, things still sometimes turn out in a way that makes you glad to be in this world." -FSG
Running the Dogs by Thomas Cochran (FSG 2007)
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