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