My blog posts have been getting a little sparse!
It's not for a lack of activity on the illustration front, but maybe it's for a lack of an exciting personal life, I'll admit to that. I've been spending alot of time on Instagram lately, so feel free to check out my work
there.
Spring and summer always presents me with plenty of household errands encouraged by the light and air opening up the house. And the front porch is always beckoning! The roses are in bloom despite not tending them at all.
But I'll leave the new geraniums sitting there unplanted for one more day, so I can show what I've been up to in the past few weeks.
This is my 5th reader with Penguin Random House featuring the antics of Steve. The previous book,
How to Start Kindergarten, is available for pre-order
here.
I've just completed the sketches for this 32-page book about entering First Grade, or as Steve puts it, "REAL school." As with any book about school, there are plenty of kids. The one new kid in town that is unintentionally stealing Steve's spotlight is Hanna, a girl from Alaska, who has arrives on a dogsled and has a gold nugget in her pocket.
I sometimes provide only one sketch for a cover, but this time I supplied 3.
I think the chalk drawing scene is my personal choice for the cover. I'm looking forward to starting the color on these soon!
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| Cover #3 |
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| Breakfast |
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| Everyone is glad to see Steve again... |
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until they set eyes on the new girl Hanna's gold nugget.
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| To regain his fanbase, Steve invents a rocket ship that doubles as his house. But even his best friend is skeptical. |
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| Hanna draws her Alaskan house with snow up to the roof, Steve calls her a liar, and the shouting match begins. |
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And it ends up where all good schoolyard fights end, outside the principal's office.
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