I have a children's book agent!

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I now an represented by the wonderful children's book agent, Christina A. Tugeau. Here's a snippit of art from my most recent mailer that she will be sending out soon. Looking forward to working more with her!

The Gift Wrap Company & The Stationary Show

I have had a wonderfully eventful past few months. I am now a senior designer for The Gift Wrap Company, designing gift wrap, gift bags as well as other wonderful gifting items. They are a fabulous company and the product is simply stunning. I feel so lucky to be apart of their design team! I got to go the NYC Stationary Show with the group in May and help set-up our booth. I have been to the Stationary and Surtex shows before, but I have never helped with set-up...it was such a great experience and I loved seeing the 'behind the scenes' of the show. I was so impressed with our booth too. We had six themed windows to decorate with our product as well the interior of the booth. Here I am in front of one of the windows I helped to decorate.

After walking the Stationary and Surtex Show, we had some time to explore the city bit too. A real highlight was taking a walk along the Highline...a walkway that spans across quite a distance in the Chelsea area. It had wonderfully natural spaces as well as sculptures and buildings decorated with murals and art. We also ate at Friedman's in Chelsea Market, where I had the best omelet ever!  

Singing Kids Children's Illustration

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I had a great time last Spring watching my kindergartener performing a song with her class for her schools annual talent show. So, after watching this fun and funny event, I decided to make an illustration of kids singing. I found it so much fun to think about the different personalities that are in a class and how they might act when they are singing infront of an audience. My very outgoing girl was surprising shy when she had to perform. So, in my art, I have the shy girl, the annoyed boy, the quirky girl, the loud boy, the nervous girl, that ADHD boy... you name it. Here's a snippit of my illustration showing a few of the kids. I'm coloring the final art right now and will post it up here when it's completed. So, come back soon to see it!

It's time for mittens!

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We were surprised to wake-up to snow this morning! My daughter had a hard time getting ready for school since she would have much rather been getting ready to go sledding instead. Maybe after school we can have some winter-time fun!

Baby Greeting Card Collection

Here's a few card samples I received from Gartner Greetings for the baby card collection I illustrated for them, called 'Smitten'. It's always fun to see your art printed!

...and I am so, glad to see how well my colorful hand lettering came out too!

Christmas Reindeer

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Here's a holiday greeting card that I illustrated for Gartner Greetings last year. It's a part of a four card box set. Happy holidays!

Bird Pattern

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Here’s a repeat pattern of birds that I've recently created. I have always been a sketcher and doodler and so it was especially fun to bring my sketchy pencil look into this art.