Writer and artist in the Tidewater region of Virginia
I haven’t written in months. Or created any illustrations. But not because I haven’t wanted to. I’ve been renovating our house–we decided in June that we wanted to sell our house, with a long-term plan to move back closer to family. So I’ve spent all day, every day for months painting, cleaning and renovating. It took me until this … More Looking toward the new year…
If you saw my last blog post, you know that I was struggling with my most recent illustration for a children’s story I wrote called “The Big Mean Cat”. I was pretty happy with the picture I’d done just before that one–the picture of the cat watching the puppy eat from his cat food bowl. Maybe I was … More The results of going back to the drawing board
Color Pencils + Paint Thinner + Chalk Pastels = Ruined Artwork (unless you’re careful) … More How (not) to ruin a color pencil drawing
I’ve written off and on my whole life. Besides a couple of human interest articles, I never had anything published–my busy life (and loud internal editor) overrode my drive to be a Real Writer. It took facing a life-threatening illness a couple of years ago to make me decide to finish some of my writerly works-in-progress. Whether I … More So you want to be a writer…oh, and an illustrator too
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