Illustration Friday: Journey

Happy Friday, everyone! This week’s submission for Illustration Friday comes from the children’s book Triangle Top: The Tale of a Troubled Tribe. It is an illustration from the end of the book, as the Trylican creatures finish one disastrous leg of their journey for food and now begin the next one. I always liked how the author left the story open for sequel, and wondered how the characters would evolve in a continuation of their journey.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Here’s hoping we don’t get any snow this weekend here in MN. Spring is being such a tease…

Illustration Friday: Double

My submission for this week’s Illustration Friday is a design I made for the tasty Trumple, a fictitious fruit that sustains the Trylican characters of Triangle Top. Can you tell I love pears?

Illustration Friday: Adrift

I can’t believe how fast this week has gone! I’m gearing up for tomorrow’s Minnesota SCBWI Winter Workshop and I hope my local readers are too! But first, here is my submission for this week’s Illustration Friday, where the characters are adrift in a lake of tears. The scene comes from Triangle Top: A Tale of a Troubled Tribe.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Illustration Friday: Muddy

I hope everyone is enjoying this snowy Friday indoors! We’re just peachy here in the "Winterland" that is Minnesota (we're used to it), but my family and friends in the DC-area sure are getting walloped!

At some point all that snow will melt and they’ll undoubtedly have some mud to muck through. Today’s Illustration Friday submission comes from Triangle Top: The Tale of a Troubled Tribe, and the mud these characters are dealing with comes from giant tears rather than snowmelt.

Check out a nifty review of the book on Pop Syndicate (special thanks to Krysten Hager for the press). Have a safe weekend, everybody!

Illustration Friday: Clumsy

This week’s submission for Illustration Friday comes from Triangle Top: The Tale of a Troubled Tribe. Here, a few Tweebles (the one-eyed yellow fellas) drag shrieking Twarfers (the green fellas) across a watery trench in hopes of signaling and saving the rest of their tribe, who are blindly heading towards danger. The attempt, while done in earnest, is complicated by the muck they clumsily trudge through. You can read a nice review of the book on Zooprise Party and purchase it through Penelope Press.

A reminder for my Twin Cities readers: this Sunday is the Minnesota Children’s Book Illustrators Guild opening reception for our art show at St. Thomas University. Please come and bring your friends! Details can be found at the St. Thomas website and you can RSVP on our Facebook Event page.

Have a great weekend, everyone!