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My Illustration Adventures For 2016

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My Illustration Adventures For 2016 have been planned. Since I retired from teaching art in inner city schools in 2011, I have been working on my art and learning about illustration and writing children’s books. Although I have a lot of education in fine art, I had no training in illustration and picture books for […]

Dream and Passion

Dream and Passion

  It is February and what a perfect month to discuss dream and passion.  Although many people think about romantic love during February, dreams and passions may be a more complex topic.  Over the last few months it is a topic of thought that keeps returning to me.  Although romantic love is the ideal, life […]

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, C...

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday

  [storepage page=’details’ cid=’877017′] Thanksgiving is over and as we all relish the memories of all the yummy food, we now enter the shopping weekend of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and then Cyber Monday.  These three days represent not only retail businesses big and small with tremendous discounts on Friday, but Saturday, November 29 […]

The Visualization Process

The Visualization Process

Recently I participated in a festival locally and I started to think about the process of visualization and how it can have such a profound effect on our lives long-term. This was not a new thought process for me, maybe because as an artist I tend to picture things visually.   I also realized the […]

Doodle Day’s First Anniversary

Doodle Day’s First Anniversary

These are some of my more current illustrations for the Doodle Day prompts.   Last week marked Doodle Day’s  first anniversary.  What is Doodle Day you might be thinking ?  It is a group page on FaceBook for doodlers, people who like to draw.  Some are  illustrators, writers,  teachers, and children of all ages. The […]

Southern Breeze Illustrators Sketchbook ...

Southern Breeze Illustrators Sketchbook Event – Fox Theater

On March 9, 2013, we had our second Sketchbook event for Southern Breeze, SCBWI illustrators to the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta, Ga. Being a native of Atlanta ,I have many memories of going there as a child.  It has always been a place of wonder and magic to me and I have enjoyed sharing it […]