A Mini-Interview with Constanze Von Kitzing
We are on our fourth and final week of the 2012 Series of Mini-Interviews. This week I close with an illustrator I admire and love: Constanze Von Kitzing. I have no recollection of how I found Constanze work. All I know is that as soon as I saw her work, I
Storybook Brushes
A few months ago, I received an email from Maria Bogade inviting me to be part of a small group of children's illustrators. The idea was to join forces and make quarterly mailers. Our first assignment? A fairy tale, 12-month calendar where each one of us would illustrate 3 months
A Mini-Interview with Greg Pizzoli
This is our third week of Mini-Interviews for 2012. This week I have invited to my blog the author-illustrator Greg Pizzoli. I found Greg's work on Twitter about 4 years ago. With my love to everything that is old-school printmaking, I fell in love with his work immediately. Greg's sense of
A Mini-Interview with Amanda Shepherd
This is week number two of our Series of Mini-Interviews for 2012 and I have invited a fantastic friend and children's illustrator: Amanda Shepherd. With a teeny, tiny baby on my lap and a career switch in my head, I surfed the internet looking for anything related to children's illustration. I
A Mini-Interview with John Parra
Today we are starting the Series of Mini-Interviews for 2012 and we are starting with a BANG! I have a very special guest in my blog, one of my favorite illustrators: the fantastic John Parra. I met John at the SCBWI Los Angeles Conference in 2010 – the year that he
Mini-Interviews Starting Next Week
It's been an eventful weekend and even more eventful Monday. Sandy has behaved badly and deserves to be sent to the corner facing the wall. We are thinking of all our family and friends in CT, PA and NY. We hope they are all safe and warm. With Sandy in time-out,
The November Mini-Interviews 2012
We had the November Mini-Interviews last year, remember? This year we are back with more interviews, more guests, and more Q&A's to fill your month of November. It's been a couple of months now that we have been working on our 2012 Series of Mini-Interviews. All behind the scenes and stuff
KidLitArtists’ Interview
I have officially joined KidLitArtists and have a Welcome Interview on the blog. You can read it here: Welcome Juana Martinez-Neal! KidLitArtists the home of the SCBWI LA Illustration Portfolio Mentorship Program Winners - winners of 2009, 2010 and 2011. The blog provides helpful information and news for children's illustrators as
New York, New York
Oh, New York! I've been there a couple of times but this time I fell completely in love with the city. While there, I attended SCBWI NY Conference. It was good and had a few personal highlights. Listening to Sophie Blackall on Friday was definitely one of them. Her presentation was
Evolutions, Dissolutions and Resolutions
This is the 2011-2012 recap post. I have divided it into 3 parts so it is easier to write and read because (reader be warned) it is long. Dissolutions and Evolutions go over what I have learned from the 365 days of 2011. Resolutions is a short list of what