Jannie on "Snow"

I've been doing alot more snowy scenes now that the weather is getting colder.

Here is my holiday card design for this year. They are available at my shop!

Paula on "Winter"

I did this piece about 2 years ago. I was playing around with a different style, using less black line and being more painterly. I always liked how this piece turned out. Just for fun I had done a mockup of it as a cover for a kids magazine.

Winter

The first snow is going to fall from the sky any day now.

Home

I did this illustration last year for Yankee Candle. I love to illustrate cozy, little nooks and Christmassy, cozy nooks even more :)

Home

We just bought a house, so it was natural for me to pick "home" as this weeks blog topic. Here's an illustration I made for SOS Children's Villages a while ago. I did a serious of pictures of the different parts of a Children's Village. This was titled "home".

Fall Promo from Paula

This is the sample I did for our fall promo. It was based on my blog header which I had to translate from a horizontal to vertical layout. We girls thought it interesting how several of us (Jannie, Claire, and me) used a squirrel in our design.

Fall Promo

Ever want to fly south too?

Fall Promo

I didn't have time to create a new illustration for our fall promo postcard, so I used a detail from a picture book that I am working on at the moment. The book is called Pumpkin Baby, written by Jane Yolen and will be published in 2009.

Fall promo

Here's my illustration for our promo postcard this fall. I love the beautiful colors of fall! This is painted with acrylic paints.

Backgrounds

A few years ago you couldn't find a single background in my illustrations. I only drew characters on white paper or inside some kind of frame. When I decided that I wanted to work with children's books one of the first challenges for me was to start drawing backgrounds. Now that's just as natural for me as drawing the characters. Here you can see an example of one of my older drawings and one of my new drawings. Even though my new drawing is very simple with just one character it was natural to give it a background.