The third and final painting for Cindy Davis and John Richters' Elder Magic, Book three of the Desert Magic Trilogy is now finished! The second book just came out to purchase, so this one will be out sometime this Winter. You can read more about the trilogy at the Desert Magic website
here. You can read the first two books
Healing Magic and
Stolen Magic by purchasing them at Amazon!
Some of the fun of being an illustrator is the anticipation and waiting
for certain books to hit
the shelves and finally get a chance to peek at the beautiful cover art that was selected by the publishers. A while ago I
blogged about doing some speculation work for Raven Tree Press for a picture book. They asked a number of other illustrators as well as myself to send in cover art and a sketch for one of the spreads after
sending us a manuscript. After finding out
I wasn't selected I had to wait almost a year to see the cover art and artist that was finally chosen for the picture book. Here it is!
Seed Was Planted will be out this September and was beautifully illustrated by Pamela Barcita. Congratulations!!
I just sent off this pet portrait to a customer. This was his dog named Rosie and it made him very happy to have something to remember her by. He emailed me, "I just opened up the painting and I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am with it!! It truley means the world for me to have this, it's simply perfect. Thank you". It feels great to make people happy with something you created :)
excited and will definitely have my work cut out for me since this is my first book. This was the preliminary concept I sent into them in order to get the contract. I will have to make a few changes to the characters. Stay tuned!!
will be working with award winning illustrator E.B. Lewis in a critique. I will also get a chance to have a private portfolio review with Donna Mark, art director for Bloomsbury Children's Books. I will be bringing with me the finished version of this sketch that goes along with a manuscript given to me by E.B. in which I was assigned to choose a double page spread for the story to illustrate for a critique. I am very happy to be taking out the scary little boy looking through the magnifying glass as a suggestion from E.B. so I can focus more on these fun frogs.
the shelves and finally get a chance to peek at the beautiful cover art that was selected by the publishers. A while ago I blogged about doing some speculation work for Raven Tree Press for a picture book. They asked a number of other illustrators as well as myself to send in cover art and a sketch for one of the spreads after
sending us a manuscript. After finding out 
I wasn't selected I had to wait almost a year to see the cover art and artist that was finally chosen for the picture book. Here it is! Seed Was Planted will be out this September and was beautifully illustrated by Pamela Barcita. Congratulations!!
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