Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
Children are inspired to read and write when they meet the author and illustrators of the books that they read! Why are author-illustrator school and library visit so important? Children [...]
Celebrating books at the Hawaiian Book and Music Festival This free event brings together booksellers, publishers, musicians, actors, authors and illustrators. Not to mention the food of Hawaii! Scbwi [...]
I have been in a cave finishing my Cakelustrations for the #LA14ACBWI. Here are my latest portfolio pieces. [...]
I’m had a great time at the SCBWI Winter conference in NYC. It’s been so nice to meet up with old friends and make new friends too! But I must say [...]
This is my experience of the 2014 Winter Conference in New York City It all started with this one image, this cakelustration was the winner of the 2014 Tomie dePaola competition. As [...]
As the Illustrator Coordinator for the SCBWI SWTX I was fortunate to get to join the faculty and other members of the Austin team for an evening hosted by The Writing [...]
This is the Cakelustration banner that I did for the SCBWI – Southwest Texas. This was a challenge since it is such a long horizontal image. Did I mention that it [...]
I am so ecstatic that my Cakelustration won the 2014 SCBWI Tomie dePaola Children’s book Illustration competition! Tomie dePaola is an award winning Illustrator. From the SCBWI Website: Tomie has [...]
Here is my entry to this years SCBWI Tomie dePaola competition. We were assigned a poem to illustrate for a potential book to be pitched to parents of toddlers and [...]
Our assignment for the SCBWI-SWTX workshop with Richard Jesse Watson This is an illustration that I did for our 2013 workshop with illustrator and writer Richard Jesse Watson. Our assignment [...]