MAY B. + CHRIS SILAS NEAL

 

I haven't talked about my work at Schwartz & Wade Books yet. MAY B., by Caroline Starr Rose, and Illustrated by Chris Silas Neal, was recently published. I had long wanted to work with Chris, and this book gave me the opportunity. Chris wrote about the process of illustrating this jacket on his blog a while back.
UPDATE: Here's another interview with Chris about his process.

SKETCHES OF BABY, BEFORE BABY

I was looking back at some sketches I made while I was pregnant, and it's humorous to see how I visualized having a baby. In one image Alex is under the table, in a basket. There are other baskets nearby, one of some fish, one of plants. He's just one of our things that we keep in a basket which is rather close to a large body of water. In the other image, he's just one of our things again. . . like we're adding to our collection of stuff.

NESTING

Thinking about home a lot these days.

LEANNE SHAPTON

The palette and simplicity of these paintings have me gasping for air.

CHESTER ON PARADE

My ode to Chester is on parade with other lovely dogs in Sweden, at gallery Sodraesplanaden.

GUN + KNIFE + CHESTER

Today my friend Nora had a big group of ladies over for apple tarts, tea and drawing.
I drew some guns and knives, and a portrait of a dear friend's dog who passed away after 18 years.

MORE DUNLAVEY

11-09-10b, originally uploaded by Rob Dunlavey.

This is pretty sweet also.

ROB DUNLAVEY

01-14-10a, originally uploaded by Rob Dunlavey.

This seems appropriate for today. It was snowing a little bit.

Rob Dunlavey is an incredible artist.