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World Illustration Awards 2021 Shortlisted Artists: Charlie Padgett, Xinmei Liu, Harrison Edwards, John Broadley, Dawn Yang, Stephan Schmitz
World Illustration Awards 2021 Shortlisted Artists: Charlie Padgett, Xinmei Liu, Harrison Edwards John Broadley, Dawn Yang & Stephan Schmitz The Association of Illustrators (The AOI), in partnership with the Directory of Illustration, recently announced the Shortlist for the World Illustration Awards 2021! The shortlist has been selected by the judges from over 5,280 entries from 82 countries following a rigorous and competitive judging process. The Shortlist presents some of the most striking illustration work from around the world. It is an important way for commissioners to discover quality illustrators to work with. The [...]
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Adjusting Work Motivations – Freelancing as a New(ish) Parent Part 2
In my last post on balancing parenthood with freelancing I talked about maternity leave logistical realities. This week I want to talk a little bit more about the emotional side [...]
Maternity Leave – Freelancing as a New(ish) Parent
Since becoming a full-time freelance illustrator 6 years ago, I’ve had 2 beautiful children (the pterodactyls, because that’s what they sound like when they cry). That means 2 x 9 [...]
Monster Mirrors Collection
All of the monster mirrors that went up on Tumblr over the last month, now collected in one convenient place!
The First Pumpkin…more to come
Well, actually it's a gourd. Three more days to carve...
Daybreak paintout event
I completed these paintings in preparation for the event mentioned in the last post. It was glorious weather that day and I have been asked to paint at another event [...]
Daybreak, UT
I've been asked to "enhance" a real estate event at the planned community development called Daybreak. I'll be onsite painting in the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2013. Rain or shine, [...]
Along the West Coast
Visiting family and friends I didn't get a lot of painting time but did do these four. Quick, small, and using an absorbent paper. All scenes near our kid's homes.Old [...]
Multiplayer
I’m exhibiting some new work this week along with some other select artists from my UK agents, JSR.For the whole of this week you can see ‘Multiplayer’ an illustration celebration [...]
Halloween
Pumpkin Carving TimeJust a few weeks to go before Halloween. Time to start thinking about this year's carvings...This is how they start.
Bowling for Time Travellers
I had a dream the other night about bumbling time travellers. It was highly entertaining. Mostly it was funny, but there was also this creep professor who wanted the secrets [...]
Tuesday Zoo!
I'm pleased to announce the opening of the artist challenge blog, Tuesday Zoo! It's two illustrators going head to head on a weekly challenge- one illustrator being yours truly, the [...]
Posters for Velveteen Rabbit, Sleepy Hollow, and Little Engine
Back in May, the Arkansas Art Center (AAC) commissioned these posters (which just came out of embargo) for their traveling children's theatre season. A big thank you to Kyle Floyd [...]
End of Summer Round-up
Been running around a bit too much to stay on top of this blog like I should. But the summer is over, so here are some highlights from the last [...]
Spider Magazine
For the second year in a row I've created the illustrations for Spider Magazine's September issue. This year's feature, "Little Coyote" by Leslie Davidson, tells the story of a young [...]
Holy ghosts! That’s a lot of ghosts!
"What is this noise," you ask? I just finished drawing up a bunch of ghosts for a combination flip-book, called 10,000 Ghost Stories, to be published shortly. I had pretty [...]
SCBWI WWA Illustration Exhibition
Tremendous news! This piece has been accepted into the SCBWI WWA Illustration Exhibtion! It will be on display at the Seattle Convention Center from October to January. I'm so excited [...]
New Sketchbook Pages
Just a few pages filled during some recent travels. I mostly used pen and ink with touches of marker and watercolor pencils. Enjoy.
Brave New World
Back in January I entered the Folio Society's third annual illustration competition with three interior illustrations for Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They just announced the winner (you can [...]
You Say Potato, I Say Mar-ra-SKEEN-o
The last post inspired me to buy the audible.com version of The Great Gatsby, read by Jake Gyllenhal. It was excellent, but I was irritated by Jake’s pronunciation of coupe. [...]
July 28, 2013It’s been a long…
July 28, 2013It's been a long drought since I've made a blog post. A writer/artist friend of mine has encouraged me to add information, tidbits, interests of mine to the [...]