Happy Valentine’s Day

Now we are only a few days from Valentine’s Day and this image is more appropriate. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. This illustration is just for fun and isn’t intended to be mystical or new-agey or anything other than a creative way of capturing the...

To Tell a Different Story

To Tell a Different Story is an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King which will feature award winning author  Patricia McKissack and four story illustrators, Richard Bernal, John Dyess, Michael Halbert and Ed Koehler. The show will be up from it’s opening...

Frederico Barocci

We saw the Frederico Barocci exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum. Federico Barocci (c. 1526, Urbino – 1612, Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. A student of Michaelangelo, Barocci is not well known in the U.S. This is an impressive exhibit with...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all! I for one am going into 2013 with considerable optimism about illustration. It’s good, it’s healthy and it’s fun. 2012 was a good year with great projects and I even took time to take a Fall semester illustration class at a...

New York

We just spent a week in New York City. New York of course is the home of some of the world’s greatest museums, and we took in many. The Met, MOMA, and Guggenheim of course, as well as the American Museum of Natural History. These are all beyond compare but the...