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I mean, SURE, there are tons of picture books out there being compared to Where the Wild Things Are, but how many are also reviewed as having a “Dante’s Inferno vibe”? If this makes you curious for a peek, the Night Frolic comes out
When working on a project and struggling with first thumbnails, I must remind myself they will eventually turn into a drawing! This is from The Night Frolic by Julie Berry, coming out February 28! We will have signed copies available through a few in
The Night Frolic by Julie Berry with art by me is feeling the love from indie bookshops! Thanks to @keplersbooks for their enthusiastic thumbs up. The Night Frolic comes out February 28! #thenightfrolic #indiebookstore #keplersbooks #julieberry
Booklist has nice things to say about The Night Frolic, by @julieberrybooks and illustrated by me. And I can now say that it comes out THIS month! #downrightmagical #thenightfrolic #comingfeb28 #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders
So fun reading and talking about picture books for World Read Aloud Day! I enjoy meeting with older kids about continuing to enjoy picture books. Proud to say these fourth grade students were excellent sleuths and learned The Truth About Dragons. #w
Oh hey Happy Lunar New Year! We see little wild rabbits almost every day where we live. I think they are good luck. Here’s to a fortunate Year of the Rabbit. 🐰 #lunarnewyear #yearoftherabbit #yearoftherabbit2023
The Night Frolic by @julieberrybooks is out next month! It is exactly the type of story I’ve long wanted to help bring to life. Its imminent arrival has me thinking of all the places I worked on its pages. I drew the first thumbnails from my st
The first trade review for The Night Frolic by Julie Berry and illustrated by me is in! Kirkus calls it “A dream come true for readers seeking a new bedtime story.” We can’t wait to share the book on February 28. In the mean time,
Happy to share that my illustrations for The Night Frolic by @julieberrybooks were accepted into the Illustrators 65 exhibition and publication as a series. An art piece or two will be on display at the Society of Illustrators, NYC in February! The b
My Favorite Things, Entry #4⁠ ⁠ This ceramic circus from my son's stint at a clay camp in Bozeman, Montana sits in my studio. He made these pieces when he was 7 or so (7 years ago!) and I love them. I also feel they fit my studio aesthetic, which is
For the record, I’ve been furiously scribbling teeny tiny pages of a new thing I don’t quite understand, and will be cleaning up these little mystery boxes over the next few days to properly gage its value. It is currently turning out no
Here’s a glimpse of some more tiny drawing for a map in a book coming out this spring! #maps #mapdrawing #drawingdetails #pencilpoint #sharppencil #bookillustration #mapillustration #drawingprocess #artprocess #meditativedrawing #meditativeart
The Night Frolic is part of the pre-order promotion at Barnes & Noble!⁠ ⁠ Barnes and Noble is currently running an offer through this Friday, September 9th, for 25% off all pre-orders with the code PREORDER25 ⁠ ⁠ The direct link to order from Bar
I'm thrilled to share that The Night Frolic by Julie Berry and Illustrated my me is now available for pre-order!⁠ ⁠ The best part is that Julie Berry owns an amazing independent bookstore and you can double-support this title buy buying it from her s
Happy happy book birthday to agent (and writer!) extraordinaire @stephencbarr ! This timelessly new fable with illustrations that live and breathe and delight by @graceyyz was a fun surprise on my doorstep today. I highly recommend preordering all o
Picture Book Tuesday!⁠ ⁠ Though I have not picked an official picture book day-of-the-week as of yet, I've been taking a morning a week to discover (or rediscover) some of the glorious picture books living in my library. Now that library shelves are
#Peptober Reintro! Peptober is an October social media challenge offered up by @andyjpizza . It is a creative list of prompts for creatives. I don’t post often (I’m always drawing or driving kids places) thus my Peptober will likely beco
Here are bits of just some of the drawings that were displayed as part of the Line Weight IX show at Gallery Nucleus @gallerynucleus and are still for sale!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ These are pieces from various commercial projects over the past few years. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The med
A glimpse of my drawings on the wall at @gallerynucleus from the gallery’s Instagram account. The drawings will be up through October 3 if you are local and want to see them. Online access to all the images in this group show will be on the web
Drawings at Gallery Nucleus this weekend!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ I will have seven drawings from some of my commercial projects on display at @gallerynucleus in their 9th Line Weight Exhibit opening this weekend. This show is a regular event at the gallery that highli

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