WIP Wednesday -

After painting on this off and on for the past week, I believe I shall call this done!

on endings....

Here I was at 5:30am (I have not been to bed yet, mind you) ironing my stack of illustrations flat, so that I can scan, label, coversheet, and package them up for posting after the sun comes up...

This is the last of this batch of books (the interiors of book #8). I have a break for a couple of months with which to sleep, clean, generally catch-up...

O lap-top, I love you. You have kept me company lo these many months of studio-servitude. The twitter, the facebook, the youtube and hulu have kept me from feeling completely isolated (and stark raving-mad from painting monotony!), but now my dear, I am going to turn you off for a bit and clean/read/walk/nap/maybe see some 'real' people?! I'll be back when the feeling returns to the bottom half of my body...

From the mists of time....

Just stumbled across a link to a story that I illustrated for Highlights Magazine a gazillion years ago that is now viewable online. Weird how stuff comes back to haunt you...

Unveiling...

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After months of cryptic working, I can now finally talk about the project that has taken up so much of my life for the past 6+ months.

Above is the full-page ad that appeared in the February 16th issue of Publishers Weekly, showing the first four books in "The Fairy Chronicles" series. These are books about contemporary, real little girls who are also fairies and go around solving problems and occasionally, saving the world. Aimed mainly at 7 year old girls. They are heavily illustrated chapter books (20+ illustrations per book). This has kept me quite thoroughly busy for months, of which I have a couple left to go!

The first two books are completely done (on my end, at least) and are coming out in May. (You can see them here and here).

So - ta da! There you go.