“Poppy’s Best Day Ever” – The Post
June normally means Summer camps, 100+ degree weather and the beginning of personal pieces in preparation to SCBWI's Los Angeles Conference. This year it meant: "Poppy's Best Day Ever" - A Picture-book in 30 Days Challenge. From signed contract to delivered artwork in 1 month (DVD coming soon). And I know
Morning! – Coloring Page
It's Monday again and here I bring you this week's delivery: "Morning!" Can you believe that next week is the last delivery of the Summer? I hope you and your children are enjoying the coloring pages. And I leave you all for now. I'm working on a picturebook and the deadline
Poppy – Coloring Page
Monday Coloring Page is here with one of the illustrations from "Poppy's Best Day Ever" - a book I illustrated for El Mejor Nido ®. As I've done before, a post with process pictures and some project "stories" will follow in a couple of weeks. I have lots of posts to
Jorge and Iguana Magazine
During the Spring I received a short story to illustrate for the July/August issue of "Iguana Magazine". I immediately said yes knowing that "Iguana Magazine" is published in Spanish, it's a children's magazine and it aims to instill Latino pride to the children that read it. What else did I
A Day Like This
10 years ago Chris Neal and I almost burnt a church down in Manhattan Beach with Peruvian hand-made candles. By 7pm that same day, my last name got longer and I would officially no longer have to go to the grocery store ever again. He gave me two crazy boys, a
The Messy One – Coloring Page
Another special Monday: Today is the release of The Messy One from the "Little Boost Series" by Picture Window Books from Capstone Publishers. With such an special occasion, the Coloring Page has to be dedicated to Vivienne and her parents. Happy Release Day to The Messy One! Vivienne is a messy