The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

My husband, daughter and I went to visit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art a couple weeks ago and had a wonderful time. It is a great place for kids and an inspiration for us writers and illustrators. We got to see original art of Eric Carle's The Hungry Caterpillar, (which just turned 40!) as well as an assortment of Ernest Shepard's pen and ink and pencil art from Winnie-the-Pooh and Tomie DePaola's original picture book art and oil paintings. We also had fun reading books, and making art out of tissue paper, like Eric Carle does. It was a great trip for us all, even Tito had fun. That's Marin's little gray tiger kitty that she's had since she was a baby (you can see him helping my daughter out with her tissue paper art).

My Note Cards at the Papyrus Store

I saw my snail note card set at the local Papyrus store. How fun! It was great to see it amongst all their other products.

Calculator book

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Here's a page from an educational novelty book that I illustrated this year. It comes with a calculator and instructs kids how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. It will be available in early 2010 from Tormont. How exciting!

Muffin

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Here's a photo of an acrylic 24x36 painting I made several years back of my husband's family cat. Her name was Muffin and she was a surly, grumpy old cat but we all loved her for her honesty. She lived a long life of 21 years! Go figure. What a beautiful calico she was. I just had to paint her!

Portrait Drawing

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(Excuse the glare on the image)
Here's a portrait I drew last year while visiting a class at the Falmouth Artists Guild on Cape Cod (my home town). They were located in a basement for a while until their new building was built. I haven't gotten a chance to visit yet, but it looks amazing! I love portrait and figure drawing and getting the time to draw a figure from real life is one of my great joys. Unfortunately, I don't get much time to fit that into my schedule these days, but I savor it when I do!

New Logo

I created a new logo!

ABC's

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Here's a snippet of an Alphabet piece I am working on. Gotta love those cute animals.