Now, with Halloween so close I'm revisiting a book idea I had put aside late last year. It's working title is "When You Meet a Witch".
Here is the cover sketch and finished color for you to see, plus one other finished color illustration from the book.
I'm hoping to add more in the coming weeks….
Besides working on illustrating children's books themselves, I also love designing the covers and hope to do more of that in the future. Here are a couple of examples.
Cabin Boy is a story I was illustrating for a very dear friend of mine, Margot Theis Raven. Margot was a well known children's book writer and one of my best friends. Margot unfortunately, succumbed to cancer a year ago. Cabin Boy is one of my favorite of her stories but was never published, we were working on it together before she became ill and I'm happy to share the cover illustration with you.
Please do look up this amazing writer's historical fiction books, they are all simply wonderful, moving stories that bring history to life for young readers.
Some of Margot's books that you should consider introducing your children to:
