Don’t laugh
You know it when you see it. Two kids huddled over a picture book, grins widening, laughter...
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Gardeners all Around
For painters and illustrators, a garden presents a challenge: How to evoke its overwhelming experience on a sheet of watercolor paper.
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Spring to action
” Merely to see is not enough,” Kimon Nicolaides told students in the life drawing...
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LEAPS of Love
In this month of valentines and chocolates, we see so many references to love. It’s the sublime...
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BEYOND THE FOLD
The Fiesta Dress, A Quinceañera Tale by Caren McNelly McCormack, illustrated by Martha Avilés...
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THE MOMENT OF GIVING
The Legend of the Poinsettia retold, illustrated and read by the late Tomie DePaola shares how an...
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Food, Glorious Food (in your illustration Art)!
Have you ever noticed how the best novels boast scenes with eating and drinking in them? Few...
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A season for painting shadows
Since it is a shape, it certainly qualifies as an element of your picture design. It has colors...
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A Distant Learning
Have you ever fallen down the rabbit hole of Google Maps? I sure have. I was traveling, digitally,...
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Don’t miss our next live online painting session!
New Class Starts Sept 16 Make Your Marks And Splashes Online Course
A natural approach to children's book illustration
Colored Pencil Character Drawing Secrets
An exciting and fun new course on Udemy created and taught by Cindy Wider.
Writing For Children
