Picture Circus UPDATE

The Georgetown Library with the help of Nick Ramos, of Graphisimo design — who coordinated the event, put on the first ever Picture Circus festival to celebrate Día de los Niños/Dia los Libros. The festival focused on illustrators of children’s books. It was a great event, with a great turn out. I was lucky enough to participate, with my table for Santa’s North Pole After Christmas Elves. I didn’t sell as much as I had hoped, but it was great seeing all the families enjoying the event, and meeting other local illustrators. Many people also took the book information with them, rather than buying it right then and there.
I hope to have the opportunity to participate again next year!





My daughter and husband were able to come to the festival for a bit and visit. Claire even had her first “face painting” experience, a butterfly on her arm!

Prints are still available, please contact me for more info. Books can be purchased here or on Amazon.

Picture Circus

This weekend is Picture Circus in Georgetown. I've been preparing this week for the festival put on by the Georgetown library, in honor of El Dia de los Ninos. I'll be there 10am - 4pm, selling and signing books, selling prints and talking about the illustration process. For more info on the festival, go here.

Cindy Lou Who

My daughter made such a cute Cindy Lou Who for Halloween that we couldn't help but use a picture of her for our Holiday Cards this year. I even found a Dr.Seuss font and made our wording rhyme. We did just a flat card and included our personal blog site (blurred out for our privacy). Including a personal blog is a great way to let people see what you've done through the past year.

Family Holiday Cards

My mother in law sent me a picture this year that she wanted to incorporate into her holiday card. None of us in the photo liked how we looked, but alas it was the only picture of all of us taken together this year. So I came up with a more flattering solution. Having done an illustrated card for a client this season, I took the same concept for the photo that she wanted to include. Im pretty happy with the result. The whole family has commented on them and seems to really like the end product. What do you think?

The North Pole A.C.E.s are FLYING!

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!
Remember the sneak peek post about what I had been working on back in July... I can now officially share with you, that the North Pole A.C.E.s are flying!

Santa's North Pole After Christmas Elves written by Diane Longo and Ron Marullo and Illustrated by none other than... ME! is now available for sale through CreateSpace.com, and is coming soon to Amazon and other retailers. This is a really fun book -- a year and a half in the making.

"The After Christmas Elves (ACEs) have begun working on next year's Christmas List and fly their planes to show a young boy named Donnie the importance of being good" (from the CreateSpace summary).

Ron and Diane put their faith in me to illustrate this project so close to their hearts. Its been so fun and gratifying to work on this project with them. Take a look and buy a copy for a kid you know this Christmas! Or buy one for yourself, its only $9.99!

All image rights are the property of North Pole ACES, LLC. Not to be printed or reproduced. North Pole ACES, LLC.©2010

Chalkboard Mural-ing

My Husband and I have been finishing up our kitchen remodel and on one of the walls we have added a chalkboard wall, using chalkboard paint. We wanted to have a few more permanent features on the wall including kitchen measurement conversions that we are constantly finding ourselves looking up online. We also keep a running list of things we need to get when we run errands. Its very helpful to keep it all in one place.
I decided to look up a few fonts for inspiration as well as make up my own along the way. What do you think?



If you're in the Austin area, don't forget that Bloom does mural work too!

Children's Book Sneak Peek.

I am really excited to show this tiny little preview of a project Ive been busily working on the past few months. I've been working with a couple of local Austin area authors to illustrate this fantastic christmas story. We hope to have it available for purchase this holiday season. For now, this is all I can share with you. More to come...


All image rights are the property of North Pole ACES, LLC. Not to be printed or reproduced. North Pole ACES, LLC.©2010