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Something on the drawing board. It’s fun to take a pic and distort it!

Below are some glimpses of hidden picture illustrations either published or fresh off the drawing board. These are a challenge but really fun to do!

(c) Highlights For Children

Illustration For Kids just put out a group postcard promotional--With a Valentine's Day theme, of course! Below is the postcard with our joint venture to offer our fun & whimsical illustrations to the world.

Thanks for stopping by!

Here's our latest promotional postcard--with a summer/beach theme! We LOVE summer! May it never end!*

*Unless, or course, you live in a perpetually hot climate--okay. May it end. And soon, right?

Below is Illustration For Kids‘ latest postcard promo! (I put it in a vertical format for better sizing on the the blog.) Please have a visit at our group website and check out the individual illustrator websites, blogs, FB, Twitter pages, etc. Thanks!

Hi all y’all. I hope you are enjoying spring (those of you who are north of the equator). The trees around here are finally getting around to leafing. Soon enough it will look all springy and then summery and hopefully warmth will follow. I myself have had it with winter. Bah!

The above is the  image on the spring promotional postcard mailer that Illustration For Kids (the illustration group I am a part of) recently sent out. The entire front of the mailer (with the all the images) is below. Check out our group blog for more details from the illustrators themselves in regards to our respective illustrations!

This is little guy (or gal?) is from something I was messing around with yesterday. I also posted this on the Illustration for Kids blog. If you want to see what some of us have been working on lately, please check it out.

Enjoying the spring weather as I work on my own book dummy and a piece for our spring promo over at Illustration for Kids:
And a thank you to Lori West at Curledupbooks.com for nice review of The Great Matzoh Hunt.

Thats about it around here. I've been taking a slight break from Facebook and Twitter, and giving myself more time for personal projects. Also I need to start doing some research on my upcoming trip to Tokyo. I can't wait!

Hey all! I’ve been a little slack in posting lately, I know. I’ve been spending quality time away from the computer in general and hope to be getting back into the swing of posting more often. So I’m starting things off with posting images for the postcard promotional that the illustration group I am a [...]

Check out this month's High Five Magazine- featuring this spread I illustrated called Fix the Flat. Also in the same issue is my friend and fellow Illustration for kids member Anette with her awesome double page spreads- check it out here. Yay!

Lately, yes, I've been finding my inspiration in the social networking tools Twitter and Facebook. Most of my associations on Twitter are illustrators, authors, designers, etc., so the chit-chat is primarily about what one is working on, what inspires/interests/amuses them, and so on. It's akin to working alone in a studio, but right next to me, a group has gathered, and I can over-hear these conversations. Participate or lurk--whatever--I'm energized (though sometimes over-whelmed!) by the stimuli. Seeing these others in creative-mode makes me want to be creative, too.

My website and blog.

Below is my illustration for our IFK fall postcard. I have also included some earlier color versions and rough sketches and ideas working up to the final piece. I obviously decided to use a bear as the main character early on in the process. I changed the color background to blue to add more contrast when there seemed to be a lot of yellows and oranges on the other IFKer's images.





My blog & website

There's been alot of sprucing up lately! Over at Ilustration for Kids, we got an updated logo and look (thanks, Holli!), with images used for our recent fall mailer. We are also at Facebook and twitter. Come follow us!

Our individual profile pages were also updated, with a fun Q & A section. Find out stuff like what kind of animal I want to be (no, its not a chicken) or some of my favorite artists. There is a "real" picture of me, I think I kind of look evil. Should I swap it out with a stock photo of a chicken instead?

A much needed update also went on over at my personal site. Happy to be using my moving monster as my welcome page. Oddly, the colors match exactly with the tabs above. And here I was thinking I've been making an effort in using different color palettes.

Please go visit and let me know what you think. Happy Friday!

We girls at Illustration For Kids have been sprucing up our website, etc. these last few weeks (Big thanks to Holli, for the new logo and facelift!).  For those of you who don’t know who “we” is, we’re seven illustrators who have a website, blog, Facebook & Twitter feed together to support and promote ourselves. [...]

…art reference book?” We answer that question at the Illustration For Kids site this week, with my reply being here. Please check it out as well as what the other girls had to say about what their favorite reference book for art is. We plan to post something weekly so please stop by and see [...]

A spoonful of creativity a day
Day 13

Another day with very little time to squeeze in anything creative - but, I had promised myself to do something every day, I didn't promise that it would always be pretty :)

I have a piece to paint for our Fall Illustration for Kids promo card which I need to submit by the end of the day tomorrow. (Shouldn't you have started this much earlier Susan? Yes, I should have, but instead left it until the last minute..)

Here are some very rough sketches....I have Little Red Riding Hood on the brain - quite like the idea of her feeding squirrels with the sneaky wolf looking on - but the image has to be approximately three inches square and this might be too busy and detail may get lost..


Keep doodling moles and hedgehogs with oak leaf umbrellas...


As you can see, I don't really have a clear idea of what I am doing yet, but it is all part of the process...


Sometimes things have to get a bit messy before something good can come out of it.

How long do you think it took me to do this sketch?

How long do you think it took me to color it?

(spread from The Haunted Ghoul Bus)

...To Make An Illustration?” That’s the question that Holli, Jenn, Susan, Anette, Jannie, Claire and I are answering this week on our Illustration For Kids (IFK) blog. My post is here. If any of you would like to respond to the question, “How long does it take you to make an illustration?”, please feel free [...]