More Glorious Samples!

Here is the March Scholastic News 1 and 2 see-through issue.

I just got samples in the mail today! Glorious! It is fun to see the them. When you hold the issue up to the light, you see hidden animals.

It can be quite a design challenge. Often, things do not show up well if there is a lot of texture-like the beaver dam. So it takes a bit of finessing to get it to work . Thank goodness for Photoshop! Below is the "hidden part", pages 1-4. Above is 2-3 where all is revealed! This is such a pastoral issue.

Finish of Winter

I was waiting to get feeback for the cover sketch on my next book and finished this up while waiting. It is part of a four illustration series based on the four seasons. Here is the explanation and sketch.