Designing Finnegan and Fox

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 Finnegan and Fox: The Ten-Foot Cop will be available February 1st! You know what that means: I'll be showing you sketches and paintings in progress. Here are character studies for Finnegan, the police horse and Fox, his policeman. Finnegan…

Blog Hop!

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My writer (and artist) pal Beth MacKinney asked me to be part of an exciting project this weekend. Authors with blogs are linking to other author-blogs for a huge, weekend-long Blog-Hop! Beth is linking to my blog and she sent me questions—about…

New book coming out soon!

Finnegan and Fox: The Ten-Foot Cop will be hitting the bookshelves February 1st. I'll have some work-in-progress posts up soon. In the meantime, here's a review from Publishers' Weekly.

Ahoy, ye lubbers!

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Blast me for a marlin spike—tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day! I'll be yarning away the afternoon watch with the young scholards at Colfax Elementary School. Never fear, you can talk like a pirate, too. Just click over here for a glossary…

Alphabet Trail & Tales

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Come join me this Saturday in Frick Park (in Pittsburgh, Pa) at the big blue slide! I'll be the one in the bunny ears, reading Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies and painting pictures.

PJ Storytime tomorrow

I will be appearing at Franklin Public Library tomorrow at 7:00 pm. I'll read Let's Have A Tree Party and paint a picture. See you there!

Jack and the Giant Barbecue color studies

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Here are close-up scans of the color studies I created for Jack and the Giant Barbecue. They're shown here individually, but they were created together on one big piece of watercolor paper as a color script. Each study is roughly 6" x 4". These…

Barbecue

Today's Barbecue Fun Fact from About.com— When the first Spanish explorers arrived in the new world they found the indigenous people of the Caribbean preserving meats in the sun. This is an age old and almost completely universal method. The…

Giant BBQ Party on Saturday!

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…

Inside the jukebox

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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…