Happy Halloween

Visible Traces

"The Chinese consider it childish to look for details in pictures and then to compare them with the real world. They want, rather, to find in them the visible traces of the artist's enthusiasm."

– E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art 

Brush with a Gorilla

Experimenting with Chinese brushes and Marie's watercolor on Sumi-e paper...

Ratfink Raccoon

Polychromos pencil and digital.

Brush with Cat

Ravens

Just playing around with a Winsor & Newton Ivory Black Water Colour Marker and my trusty water brush. Fun, but seems to fade quite a bit after a few minutes. Scan or take a photo quick, kids.

And just for fun...

SNOW WHITE COVER REVEAL!

Still have to wait until September for the pub date, but here's the cover...

Zoodle

Silicon Valley READS The Storm in the Barn!

During the first week of March, I'll be doing a series of events about The Storm in the Barn for the Silicon Valley READS program.

Here are the events that are free and open to the public!

And here's more about the Silicon Valley READS program!

Please come out and say howdy!

Snow Will Fall...

"To illustrate a fairy tale is not an intellectual, scientific interpretation but a transposition of internal pictures and feelings."

                                    – Lisbeth Zwerger