Alice in Wonderland : take 3

‘Are you – are you fond – of – of dogs?’ The Mouse did not answer,
so Alice went on eagerly.

A Box With Bellows

August issue of Guardian Angel Kids Magazine is out.

Check out "A Box With Bellows" by Juliana M Jones

HERE

Creative Child Magazine's Preferred Choice Award

Pretty exciting news today!!

My Sister Is My Best Friend: A Trilingual Story, English, French, and Spanish by Nicole Weaver and illustrated by Moi!! has been awarded Creative Child 2012 Preferred Choice Award – Kids Picture Storybooks category.

About Creative Child Awards Program

Each year, Creative Child holds a 2-day event held in Henderson, Nevada where over a hundred guest reviewers (moms and education professionals) are invited to attend a review event at the local convention centre. All products are divided into categories and displayed at various review stations. Guest reviewers are asked to sit and review each product at one station, then move to another station, and so forth and so on. A review form is provided to each guest to aid him or her in evaluating each product. The review forms are to include written comments and a score value based on criteria that corresponds to the product’s category.

Finally, all review forms are collected, scores tabulated, and comments reviewed. Based on the scores and comments, certain products are determined to be finalists and receive a prestigious Preferred Choice award.

Interview by Kai Strand

Pop by Strands of Thought, author Kai Strands blog to check out my interview about Elliott & Anastacia.

Strands Of Thought

Review from Nicole Weaver

Author, Nicole Weaver, has written a beautiful review of Elliott & Anastacia on her blog

http://www.melangeofcultures.wordpress.com/

Nicole is the author of trilingual children's books, Marie and her friend the Sea Turtle and My Sister is My Best Friend.  I was lucky enough to illustrate the latter.  Check out Nicole's work HERE

Maid for Make Believe

I have a new illustration in Guardian Angel Kids on line magazine. They have a new cool format too.

Check out the story Maid for Make Believe by Caroline Yu.

Dr Sketchy

I was reading up on advice from industry professionals and everyone recommends life drawing.

I haven't taken a life drawing class for around 15 years so I thought it would be really good practice.

When I was looking at different classes they kind of looked a little stuffy until I stumbled onto Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School.  Burlesque dancers with a loungey DJ and drinks....it was AWESOME!!

Life drawing is hard...really hard but I had such a great time.

Can't wait for more "Mommy Alone Time" at Dr Sketchy's next month.

Laka and Mirela

In honor of the lovely EuroVision song contest I am posting an older piece I did of Bosnia's 2008 contestant, Laka.  I love his music and he is a mad crazy performer...Good Stuff.

Elliott & Anastacia

Anyone who knows me knows I have fallen madly in love with koalas since moving to Australia.  My number one koala is Elliott, my foster koala through the Australian Koala Foundation.

I went to visit Elliott one day at the Ballarat Wildlife Park and met his roommates at the time, Anastacia and Milton. This was a moment of bliss!!

I started drawing little pictures of Elliott and Anastacia together and now I am so excited to say they are making their debut appearance in a book.

Elliott & Anastacia has been released by Guardian Angel Publishing.

The book can be purchased directly from Guardian Angel Publishing HERE. 

For all Australians shipping is local when ordered direct from Guaridan Angel. 

Elliott & Anastacia is also available on Amazon HERE.

If anyone is interested in having your own adopt-a-koala check out all the lovely little fuzzies HERE.

Custom Art for Children

I am now doing custom art for your favorite child featuring his or her favorite animal!!

Check out more examples on Etsy HERE.



Pocketful Illustration Magazine

Pocketful Illustration Magazine has included my piece "Fly Me To The Moon" in their most recent publication.

Check out all of the illustrations HERE



If I Have to be Normal

I have a new illustration in the March issue of Guardian Angel Kids Magazine.  Go check out the story by Juliana Jones, If I Have to be Normal.



The Sketchbook Project 2012

This is a little preview of my sketchbook.  I picked the theme "Life Underground".

I tried to paint things that came to mind when I thought of the "Underground" like Velvet Underground or The Weather Underground Organization.

I think the bootleggers of the underworld are my favorite.

You can see the whole sketchbook

HERE

My Sister is My Best Friend

My second undertaking with Guardian Angel Publishing came out when I was home in the States so I haven't had a chance to post about it until now but here it is!!

My Sister is My Best Friend is written by Nicole Weaver in not only English but French and Spanish too.

The only bummer is my old website which I, in all of my brilliance, deleted is still listed in my bio.  I didn't see the mistake in time to fix it so anyone who might go look for the website will get nothing but not much I can do about it now.

Anyhoo, I am very excited to have another completed book on the shelves!! 

Anyone who is interested can grab a copy at Amazon HERE  or direct from Guardian Angel Publishing HERE

Next on the horizon for 2012 is Elliott & Anastacia.  Yay for Koalas!!!