Blue Marble Saturday and Llama Study

Chester the llama says shop locally! (Quick llama study)

If you are shopping in Northern Kentucky this Saturday, stop by Blue Marble Children's Bookstore.

I will be signing books from 2 until 4!

Hope to see you there!

Habitat Spy Book Signing Saturday May 14th

My mom found these great binoculars online at a party supply. I added the cool stickers.
Great for junior naturalists! Get a pair of them when you purchase a copy of Habitat Spy (until they run out).

More Signing info:

1356 South Fort Thomas Avenue

Fort Thomas, KY 41075
Phone 859.781.0602 FAX 859.781.0728 e-mail bluemarble@fuse.net
website http://www.bluemarblebooks.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125195514223818&pending#!/event.php?eid=125195514223818

Glorious Samples

Just got in an advance copy of Habitat Spy! The kick off signing is in May 14th at Blue Marble Children's Bookstore.

Signing-Blue Marble Children's Bookstore

The signing at Blue Marble Saturday went really well! Here are a couple pictures. More are here! Our next event will be at Ohioana Book Festival where we get to meet the first Lady (Frances Strickland) of Ohio!

Little Red Bat-Anticipation

Little Red Bat is shipping the first week in March and so I am posting some of my favorite pieces from the book in anticipation of it coming out.

Above is my favorite painting from the book!

While I worked on the sketches, I visited a couple who do bat rescue and happened to have a red bat family they had rescued and released a week or so later in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. (This took a LOT of phone calls. Red Bats are hard to track down in captivity) It helped so much to see them in person and I took video of the bat moving. It completely altered the way I drew them.

As an illustrator it emphasized how important it is to see the real animal you are drawing if possible. It allows you to really see and understand.

Carole Gerber and I will have a kick off signing at Blue Marble in Ft. Thomas on April 17th from 2-4.