My pal Paul Schifino, who hired me to create an image for the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s As You Like It, sent me this terrific tote bag made out of the recycled banners and billboards. UPDATE! Laura is the lady who created this wonderful tote bag. You can see more of her work here.
If you’re anywhere near Oil City, Pennsylvania this Saturday, June 9th we’re throwing a Giant Barbecue party—and you’re invited! It’s from noon to 3:00. Come on up to Studio 27B in the National Transit Building on Seneca Street. We’ll have free Texas barbecue and lemonade, hot tamales and cow tails. I’ll be reading Jack and […]
Here is an image I was very excited to draw from Jack and the Giant Barbecue—Jack inside the jukebox, trying to get at his daddy’s recipe book. In the original manuscript the giant had hidden the recipe book inside a cash register. We ran into trouble when drawing that because a cash register and a […]
Some sad news: Maurice Sendak passed on. He understood the picture book format like no one else.
Here‘s a nice mention of Jack and the Giant Barbecue in a lineup of barbecue books for kids.
A caricature of my old pal Dennis Dittrich—
Here’s the sketch, final painting and lettering for the front jacket of Jack and the Giant Barbecue. [slideshow]
Here’s the final painting from my last post—Jack climbs Mount Pecos in Jack and the Giant Barbecue.
Masking fluid (or liquid frisket) is a pretty handy item to have around. Many of the scenes in Jack and the Giant Barbecue have characters in front of the big, wild & woolly American West. I like to spread out and paint that kind of backdrop with equally wild brush strokes. That’s a whole lot […]
Another night-time party scene from Let’s Have A Tree Party! A thumbnail sketch, tight sketch, the painting in progress and the final illustration. My former student Julia Kapp assisted with blocking in the big areas of color for this book. As anyone who has worked with gouache can tell you, laying down a perfect velvety […]
