Book Series Challenge: Mary Poppins

In February of 2024, while scrolling through illustrators’ posts on Instagram, I ran across an announcement by Monty Lee for an upcoming illustration challenge called the Book Series Challenge. The challenge was to use any media of choice, excluding generative AI, and create illustrations for seven prompts taken from classic book excerpts. After completing my… Continue reading Book Series Challenge: Mary Poppins

Book Series Challenge: Peter Pan

In February of 2024, while scrolling through illustrators’ posts on Instagram, I ran across an announcement by Monty Lee for an upcoming illustration challenge called the Book Series Challenge. The challenge was to use any media of choice, excluding generative AI, and create illustrations for seven prompts taken from classic book excerpts. After completing my… Continue reading Book Series Challenge: Peter Pan

Book Series Challenge: The Wind in the Willows

In February of 2024, while scrolling through illustrators’ posts on Instagram, I ran across an announcement by Monty Lee for an upcoming illustration challenge called the Book Series Challenge. The challenge was to use any media of choice, excluding generative AI, and create illustrations for seven prompts taken from classic book excerpts. After completing my… Continue reading Book Series Challenge: The Wind in the Willows

Book Series Challenge: Pinocchio

In February of 2024, while scrolling through illustrators’ posts on Instagram, I ran across an announcement by Monty Lee for an upcoming illustration challenge called the Book Series Challenge. The challenge was to use any media of choice, excluding generative AI, and create illustrations for seven prompts taken from classic book excerpts. The Book Series… Continue reading Book Series Challenge: Pinocchio

Creative Braining

BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS! As much as I’d love it to be a post about zombies; this is not a post about zombies.  It’s about creating. Although it’s not about creating brain-eating reanimated beings shambling endlessly in search of the living, I hope to shed some light on how we creators shamble endlessly in search of… Continue reading Creative Braining

Creative Inertia for 2023

I wrote this piece for the STEM Tuesday blog group’s 2023 New Year post on the From the Mixed-Up Files…of Middle-Grade Authors blog and thought I’d share it here. Creative inertia for 2023 and beyond!!! Painful Inspiration The weather turned. The temperature dropped rapidly. It was a cold and misty day but the precipitation began… Continue reading Creative Inertia for 2023