Come and join me aboard the dread Salty Carrot! I’ll be at Alphabet Trail & Tales Saturday morning, September 11th in Frick Park—that’s in Pittsburgh, Pa. I’ll be reading Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates and painting and leading sea-shanty singalongs. Here’s me with KDKA-TV’s Dennis Bowman and Citipark’s Le Frankowski and Nancy Burns.
For all illustrators: here’s an important article about reprographic rights. Don’t know what they are? If you were a musician, you’d be getting a regular check from all the times your song was played on the radio or jukeboxes. Your images are probably being reproduced without you ever seeing a nickel.
. As if it were Christmas morning, a fantastic present for me arrived in the mail. I don’t know how much I should be giving away here—the book isn’t to be released until October—but I’m so excited I can’t wait to share this. Last winter I worked on a very fun title for Marshall Cavendish: […]
Because I’m an idiot, I forgot to take a photo of the finished caricature I did of my dad for his eightieth birthday (here it is in progress). Luckily, my talented friend Sarah Rossborough was there and she got a shot of it with everyone’s best wishes written all around the image. If you have […]
When I begin a new book project, one of the early steps is to create a storyboard—a series of small, rough thumbnail sketches that shows all the action of the story. Here’s one for a project that got canceled early this year.
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If you’re an illustrator or art student anywhere near western Pennsylvania you want to sign up for the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators’ first annual illustration conference. I’ll be conducting a workshop on children’s book illustration and then joining Mark Brewer (humorous), John Blumen (fantasy), Phil Wilson (advertising and nature), and Ilene Winn-Lederer (editorial and book) […]
My pop turned 80 last Saturday! Relatives traveled from all four corners of the globe to convene at my sister’s house. I painted a caricature for everyone to sign. Here are the early stages:
Here is a glimpse into the heart of an unscrupulous art buyer. I don’t use the word ‘unscrupulous’ lightly. He may defend himself by saying he merely pays what these artists ask, and in a free market parties may enter into contractual agreements and it’s no one else’s business—but a buyer who treats his suppliers […]
And the perfect way to spend it.
