Mentee Portfolio vs. Grand Prize Winner Portfolio
Hi again! The Craft of Portfolio Making - Post #2 is here! Last week, we worked on putting together your brand new Physical Portfolio on the post "How to Put a Children's Illustrator Portfolio Together". Today, I will try to expand on what we briefly touched on Image Selection and Flow
Illustration Friday Farewell
Penelope Dullaghan has decided to leave Illustration Friday. It is sad to see her go but I'm excited to see what she does next! She created a fantastic community where so many of us illustrators started getting the courage to show work. I was one of them :) Good luck, Penelope! >
Storybook Brushes Calendar Giveaway
Now that I got my copies of the Storybook Brushes Calendar, I can hold the GIVEAWAY! Whoop! THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED It's not only me having the Giveaway. Katriona and Maria also are and so will Angela a little later this week. What would you get? We are giving away 1 copy
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
Lucecita
I got the assignment to illustrate the story of "Lucecita" in late November. It was a super-rush (aka less than a week between sketches and finals) but as you are all already guessing, I took the project. The artwork was published on the November/December 2011 issue of Iguana Magazine and
Mary Talks
Christmas has come and gone and I still have this sorta-Christmassy post to go before I can get to my "Welcome 2012" one. So let's post it really quick to clear my desk, ok? Great! I loved this project! From research to final art, it was one of my favorite magazine
Fidel, Miguel y el Pastel
This week I got my copies of the September/October 2011 issue of Iguana Magazine. I have an illustration published for the poem of "Fidel, Miguel y el Pastel". The poem is a short story about two friends, one pice of cake and a cat that intercedes when things are not
MY WEEK of Interviews and Giveaway
If you have been following my posts the last few weeks, you know the Mini-Interviews are entering their 4th week tomorrow. If you didn't know about them, you may want to go back and read Molly's, Mikela's and Laura's posts. They are filled with great information and they are at
Rendez Zoo
Last Saturday, the Phoenix Zoo held it's Second Annual Rendez Zoo. By supporting the event you help sustain the Zoo's conservation efforts, contribute to the care of the animals, and assure the Zoo will continue offering educational programs. Now, what's more fitting than a Zoo, wild animals and a children's illustrator
Ruth & Naomi Made the Cover!
"The Little Lutheran" Magazine was kind enough to give me a story that is now running on its current issue - September 2011. So here's a little story. Because I HAVE to tell you a story and you know that. A couple of weeks ago on my bedtime routine, I checked