Here I share news, events, press, bits of my creative process, and the occasional snippet of adventure.
Okay, admittedly I have lots of happy places, but anywhere I spend time reading is a happy place for sure.
Reading Is My Happy Place
Been making some new art for shows this fall. Thought I’d post some of it here!
Also it’s dahlia season, so I guess the flowers have been inspiring me.
For those in the Seattle area, I have three pieces included at the Western Washington SCBWI art show at the Seattle Convention Center through mid-July. Check it out!
Posted this for Kidlit postcard day on Instagram this past month
Sometimes I participate in Kidlit postcard day on Instagram. This past month I shared this piece I made inspired by happy memories on the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec with my husband’s family. I also wrote the following message and I thought it might be a nice thing to cross-post here in case any fellow kid lit creators stumble across my corner of the internet and could use a lift:
Books have offered me refuge so many times in life, but especially as a kid. I think this is a big reason why I keep writing and making art for kids—making stories that offer a different way, a different space, new perspective—it’s work I want to be a part of and support.
And to that purpose today I’m also sending good wishes to all my fellow kidlit artists out there. I hope you are doing whatever you need to do to sustain your work. The refuge and perspective your work offers kids is so important. I’m grateful you keep at it. Especially when the world feels the most rocky or uncertain, please keep keeping at it. The world needs what you do.
Cheers all! Happy creating.
Seagulls live on my roof. I think of them as frenemies.
One minute I am enchanted by their sound and tenacity. The next I am annoyed with their excrement.
Either way I find that I often draw them or put them in my work.
See the seagull on my chimney?
