Emilie Spies Something...

I've been busy the past few weeks getting ready for the summer Society of Children's Book Writers Conference and then updating my website.  This was a piece that I did for my portfolio, a companion to a piece I did a while back called Emilie and the Sea Serpent.  It's an idea for a story that I have of a lonely Victorian girl who befriends a Sea Serpent.  It's just a beginning for now...

IF-Whiskers

Here's an item that I pulled from my sketchbook that I thought would fit this week's Illustration Friday topic of whiskers.  This is a subject I like to play with a lot for some reason; a Victorian era impresario type character, perhaps evil, perhaps not.  I threw the sketch into photoshop and added some color to it, but eventually I'd like to explore this guy I bit more.

Emilie at the window

This illustration is for the back of my next postcard, with the same little girl who's on the sea serpent on the front side. I like working in both color and black and white. I have to say that black and white has a special, magical feeling for me. I love old black and white photos and movies.

Sea Serpent

Well, I'm a little bit late, but here's my next postcard. Emilie and the Sea Serpent. I still have to do a black and white illustration for the back side of the card...