Sydney Taylor Blog Tour

There's an interview with me over at Leora Wenger's blog, as part of the Sydney Taylor blog tour, wherein I get only moderately long-winded about illustrating Linda Glaser's Hannah's Way for Kar-Ben, as well as all sorts of art making stuff. You can reading just by clicking here.

 

2010-2011, various sizes.

gouache on paper, pencil and gouache on paper, gouache on paper

Sydney Taylor Book Award

Hey! Author Linda Glaser's Kar-Ben title that I illustrated, Hannah's Way is this year's Gold Medal winner in the Sydney Taylor Book Award's Younger Reader category.

A quiet period piece that takes place in rural Minnesota, it was neat book to get to work on and had me surprisingly deep in research for a good stretch of time.  More news on the subject soon...

 

various sizes, gouache on paper

The semester in demos

A selection of one hour oil painting demos from this past Fall semester at the University of the Arts.

Various supports (paper, canvas...),
various sizes,
various levels of success...

A few more words from Ellsworth Poltroon Pilgarlic III

A few words from Ellsworth Poltroon Pilgarlic III

What do Pete Mitchell, Bryan Ballinger, Doug Bell, Adam Gustavson, Roger Cruz, Karen Jones Lee, Jeremy Vanhoozer, Josh Addessi, Janee Trasler, Paul Conrad, Chuck Vollmer, Cole Phillips, Wout Schildermans, Lilian Carmine, Sarah Bodnar, Micah Lanier and Andi Butler all have in common?

I'm glad you asked. Why, they're all featured in the comic anthology Dead Anyway, a charming and virtually bottomless assortment of zombie stories.

And it's available for pre-order HERE.

Cute zombies! Fairy zombies! Carny zombies! Child zombies! Culinary reality show zombies! Zombie stories of love, loss, redemption and even the occasional western.

And, of course, existentialist zombies. Here's page one of my contribution the pantheon.

 13 x 19 inches. Pencil and gouache on paper, 2012.

Hey! It's a mini interview with life sized me.

Care of the fabulous Molly Idle.  Wherein I expound on questions about the creative process, style, and the five words that describe me best.

Read the whole shebang here. The word here, that is. Just in case you thought it was here on this blog somewhere, which it's not. It's here.

To lure you in, here's a new image from a new title spoken about therein. And when the book comes out, there'll be 34 more where that came from...

 

From Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story, by Sebastian Robertson. 

Christy Ottaviano Books, 2014.