Painting the last steps to the top. It starts out a very civilized process, with clean blotters, clear water, a glass of white wine, mellow ...

My poor family often gets called to model for me, especially when it comes to those tricky hand positions. One of my characters in the wilde...

I had a break from final book art work to attend a day session at our Iowa SCBWI spring conference this weekend.   As always, good...

The original, uncolored, for comparison

With the start of the current book project, I thought I'd invest in a new set of watercolors. In the past, I've used a combination o...

First bee of the season. What it collects honey from at this time in Iowa I fear I don't know. I wonder how intense bee-keeping is? Ma...

Working, working, working... At this point in a book project, I think I've arrived at my own personal  Death Zone in that Climbing the...