New from Sleeping Bear Press
Coming in March 2024!
Junia, the beloved mule from the bestselling The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, comes to vivid life for children.
Junia, the beloved mule from the bestselling The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, comes to vivid life for children.
With over twenty-five years professional experience as an animation background painter, layout and concept artist, and children's book illustrator, I founded Flying Dog Studio in 2006 to create works of wonder and imagination.
I grew up loving animation, picture books, and puppets. In college, I studied filmmaking at Northwestern and illustration at the American Academy of Art. Now I get to design for animation and illustrate books, having worked at studios like Disney, Don Bluth, and Universal Studios. I teach at Ringling College of Art & Design.
In the old days, I painted animation backgrounds with gouache, some colored pencil, sometimes Dr. Martin's dyes. Nowadays, I paint them digitally. For children's books, it's a mix, watercolor and pencil, and some digital. It all depends on the subject matter.
Dr. Seuss, Arthur Rackham, Robert Lawson, Trina Schart Hyman,
any animated movie from the Walt Disney Studio, Looney Tunes shorts, Jim Henson Muppet specials, Maurice Noble, Mary Blair, Ken Anderson, reading long novels and taking long walks in the woods.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Calabash Animation
Universal Cartoon Studios
Sullivan/Bluth Studio
Hyperion Animation
General Mills
Harcourt
Carus Publishing (Cricket & Cicada Magazines)
Alfred Publishing
Mr. Christmas, Inc.
Zaner-Bloser
Two Lives Publishing
Albert Whitman & Company
Sleeping Bear Press
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