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another spread from the book
(click on the image to see it larger)You can see some of the process for this spread here.
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available for pre-order!
I've had many people ask me where they will be able to pick up a copy of my soon-to-be-released picture book, Bye, Bye, Butterflies! and I finally have an answer. So far it is available online for...
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final art & layout for the 'caterpillar' spread
I had done a post about the process for this one here.
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MY BOOKS ARRIVED!!!!!!
I just got back from the post office with my copies of the picture book I illustrated. They smell great; they look great. I'm one happy girl :)(the letters in the second photo are backwards because I...
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update
My husband and I bought a house last month and are currently up to our ears in boxes. We'll be moving out of our uptown apartment at the end of this month, staying with friends for a couple weeks and...
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uppercase magazine, issue #14
The latest issue of Uppercase Magazine contains a large section about children's books and I was lucky enough to have been mentioned. I was so excited to be interviewed for a magazine that I really...
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painting process
Here's how one of the illustrations from Bye, Bye, Butterflies! looked at different levels of completion:(Sorry about the yellow tone on some of the photos. I wasn't using the best camera and didn't...
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press
Here's a link to some press for my picture book from Publisher’s Weekly and in the Waterloo Record.
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home sweet home
This is our new house! We took possession of it just over a month ago and have been renovating and slowly moving in ever since. We're so happy to be in a house again. It's not big or fancy, but it's...
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my latest promo postcard
I sent this puppy out to potential clients in the children's market back in early July.
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my origami for spider magazine
Here's an illustration that I did for the September 2012 issue of Spider Magazine.
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review for word on the street
A few weeks ago I posted a link to a review of my picture book on my illustration facebook page, but I wanted to mention it here too. It was by a five year old girl for Word on the Street. It's a...
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october update
I just got back to Calgary on Friday night after being away for a week. I went to my home town in north-east Saskatchewan to visit my family. It felt so good to leave the city and spend a few relaxing...
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five years after my five year plan
I was just looking through some of my old blog posts when I came upon this one. It was my five year plan and tomorrow will mark exactly 5 years since I wrote it. So let's see how I did...FRIDAY,...
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washing the body
I was contacted by the art director at Alberta Views Magazine back in July about doing an illustration for an essay called 'Washing the Body: I carry my mother inside me now as she once carried me' by...
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