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The April 2010 Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators’ newsletter, PSInside, is here!

I’m a big audiobook fan.  While I stand and paint, or drive to out-of-town schools, I devour books by listening to them.

Sally Alexander, a friend of mine through the western Pennsylvania chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, wrote an inspiring piece about her love of audiobooks.

Okay, right now it doesn’t look like much.  Add a filing cabinet and it becomes an Edward Hopper painting.  But if I’m approved, this is the studio space I’ll be occupying beginning next month.  I need to move out of the dining room and into something different—a place where I can possibly train another younger artist to help me to illustrate picture books. This space is in the Transit Building, Oil City, Pennsylvania.  Used to belong to Rockefeller.  Now it’s an arts center. I’d be surrounded by a variety of other artists.  I really hope this happens!