In my semi-weekly scouring of the web (for word of my work etc.) I recently stumbled across the fact that Slow Days, Fast Friends is includ...

This won't scream "song" at you, but the coyotes have been yipping and singing near our house quite a bit lately. This was sup...

I spent a few hours yesterday at the 4th annual Winthrop Doggie Dash - a xc ski race for dogs and their owners :) This is by no means a prof...

Simple pleasures...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel , by Michael Chabon, was given to me as a Christmas gift by my younger brother, Colby. ...

This is an illustration that I finished a little while back for a Spring 2007 HarperCollins picture book written by Emme and Phil Aronson. T...

After nearly a year of working at it, my family and I have finally moved in to our new house. We didn't "build" it, but we di...

An early sample of TOTEM TALE arrived today! Yahoo! Its only being printed in paperback, but the PAWS IV imprint of Sasquatch books does a v...

E is for... Erik's ennui. Since the IF topic segues so nicely into the title of my blog, a little self portrait (sans glasses) seems onl...

For about a month, my daughter has been having LOTS of trouble sleeping... Improvements of late have been due in large part to visits from ...

Leading with the good :) I recently confirmed that my first illustrated book of 2005, Monkey Business: Stories from Around the World was na...

Nothing illustrated today. Rather reeling from many many holiday guests over the past three weeks and thus my decided lack of contribution. ...

Imagine what would happen if an ancient totem pole came to life...This is from a Sasquatch Books publication due out in April 2006 - A Tote...

At last, the final stage of the Boo's Dinosaur cover that has been stepping along in my postings of late. I suppose that I might bump u...

Electric Sunrise

After slight derailment, the night train rallys! I'd have been better off letting a few more of these plastic dinosaurs get to work, but...

I will make a few more additions and then post the final art. The "one of those nights" theme has been further enlivened by the fa...

Inked. It has been drying for an hour + and soon will be ready for the wash and just a little bit of colored pencil.

After some time adjusting the sketch, adding just a little "age" to Boo, and refining the foreground/background perspective on he...

Here it goes, one of those inescapable realities (for me at least) of work as an author & illustrator: the all nighter! Part of me loves...