New Work!

These are my two contributions to the upcoming Curiosities show at Gallery Nucleus!

If you're in the area, stop by and see them and lots of other pieces in person. And then tell me all about it, because I'm far away on the other coast! Mike Yamada and Victoria Yang will be signing their new book, and there will be a Halloween costume contest too. 

Fun fun! 

2012 Moonbeam Awards

The book I illustrated, I Want You to Know: The Wonder of God, just received the Gold Moonbeam Award in it's category!

"The Moonbeam Children's Book Awards are designed to bring 

increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators,

and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading."

I Want You to Know: The Wonder of God

The book is finished!  It's been printed, and I'm holding a real live copy in my hands (so exciting!).

This is the first book of the I Want You to Know series, and is available on its website right now.  It will also be on Amazon.com shortly.  There is a great blog if you want to stay up to date with what is going on with the book, and the series.  I had a lot of fun working on the illustrations for this book, and the author, Kirk Jackson was so great to work with!

These pictures of the finished product are from the book's Facebook page.

Check it out!

Children's Book

For the last couple of months I've been working on illustrations for a children's book!  Here are a couple of illustrations from it:

click the images for larger versions.

For more information about the book, head over to the website and take a look!

I love fall!

Power in Numbers

A few weeks ago, Gallery Nucleus asked me to contribute a cut-paper piece to their Power in Numbers show! It's not up on their site yet, but this is my piece:

yeti!

domo style?

sketchbook dump

I got a new sketchbook last week! This is what I've done in it so far:

princess

I was playing around with my paints, and doodled this princess :)

lineup

Here is the cast of characters for this version of Little Red Riding Hood:

red

little red riding hood takes a trip through central park!

Vacation Sketch

We recently got back from vacation, but it already seems so long ago! Here are a couple things I doodled by the pool:

We also brought back a beautiful little piece of art made from dyed straw stuck to beeswax. If I can tear my eyes away from it long enough to find my camera, I'll try to get a good picture and post it!

Spring?

Has someone not told the weather that it's supposed to be spring?

Coffee Drawings

Last Friday I went across the street and drew some people! I had to shake off some of the rust, but it was a lot of fun! I'm looking forward to going out again tomorrow. Here are a few pages from Friday:

The Good Fairies of New York

I read the book The Good Fairies of New York a while back. It's a wonderfully strange book, with some really interesting characters. Last weekend I decided to paint a few of them!

Kerry:

Kerry's apartment:

Morag MacPherson (a punk-rock Scottish fairy) :

Heather MacKintosh (another punk-rock Scottish fairy!) :

hi adam!

sorry i haven't posted in awhile :)

family camping trip!

road trippin' in a little red car :D

fire breathin'

it's no big deal, she does it all the time.

i'm not quite done with the whole thing, but i thought i'd post a crop of it since i haven't posted in awhile :)

Guess Who?

It's been awhile, but I made this guy last weekend! I wanted to try making a paper frame again - I haven't been able to find a shadowbox type frame that is deep enough without feeling bulky, so I think I'll keep making them for now.