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Fall Chores

No Time To Nap, Heyday Books

It Was A Beautiful Fish

It was a beautiful fish, swimming through the sky to the sea.

Two color letterpress print

Edition of 25

Meet The Skippys

Skippy, Skippy and Skippy drop by every evening to eat the peanuts I leave on the porch. They used to wait under the jasmine for me to go away but, as you can see, they are so over being bashful.

Ocean Soup!

This is it! The final cover proof for Ocean Soup arrived from Charlesbridge! Steve Swinburne's tide pool poems are hilarious, but you'll have to wait until Spring '10 to read them. In the mean time, tide pooling is a fantastic way to explore the intertidal zones and the hardy critters that reside there. A great website for kids to "See into the Sea" is at www.tidalzone.org!

"Soup That Bites!" from Ocean Soup, Tide Pool Poems (Charlesbridge, Spring 2010)

This is an example of the small landscapes I've been doing lately. The morning marine layer across LA can be gloomy but it sure is pretty.
Pencil on Aristico hot press. 4" square

Love Letter

4 color letterpress print from the series "Love Song."

Ocean Soup

I'm almost finished painting a new picture book for Charlesbridge called Ocean Soup,Tide Pool Poems by Steve Swinburne. Here's a sneak peak of the finished spread for the poem "Hairy Doris" about a lovely shell-less gastropod. How odd!

Concrete Verse Menagerie

Sunday, January 11, from 12:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. I'll be doing a workshop for 8-12 years old.

We'll combine concrete poetry with paper models to create a zoo unlike any other.

This is an 826LA workshop and takes place at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum.

Join us!

[UPDATE: I want to thank the FANTABULOUS kids who attended todays worksop! You are AWESOME! You made the talkiest, scariest, waddliest, crawliest, funniest, prettiest, wordiest managerie ever!]

Fe Fi Fo Fum!

Late: Illustration Friday

Late...and dark...and stormy.

OT

I've added a new set of sketches to my portfolio at Flickr.com. Most of the images are drawn from life but occasionally I run across an interesting face like the one posted here of mid-century book and font designer Werner Hebhuhn. Although he looks like a character from Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands, he's the designer of a cheerful Eisenhauer era Googie-style font called Amper Sans.

'Possum woke up in a tree again!

If you plan to be at the ALA this weekend, stop by and say hello. I'll be signing copies of Wiggle and Waggle from 10-11a.m. Sunday in the Charlesbridge booth 2741

Good news!

Coming in 2010 from Charlesbridge is PUMPKIN PATCH, a picture book about two little pigs who cause a mess of trouble on a farm, which I co-authored and will illustrate.

Worry: Illustration Friday

 

Wiggle and Waggle are winners!

Wiggle and Waggle has been named one of the Bank Street College of Education "Best Books of the Year"!

Spring!

Choose: Illustration Friday