CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

© donna pellegata From The Enchanted Tree of Crooked Lake , my latest illustrated book. More about it here on my children's books page.

From the new book I illustrated,  Daniel and the Harmonica by Rob Dubreuil, published by  Stemmer House, here is Daniel outdoors enjoying the fun of playing his harmonica with three complete strangers. ©Ginger Nielson and Stemmer House Publishers

I’ve been experimenting with my digital style to make it more painterly and yet retain the flat color that I like so much. This first piece of new art is an example of that experiment and works for the CBIG blog prompt this month (outside) and the Illustration Friday prompt for this week (atmosphere). Instead of raining cats and dogs, it’s raining on the cats and dogs! Please visit sruble.com to learn more about my art and projects, or my blog to see more recent art.

Over the past few months I have worked closely with an amazing author and entrepeneur, Karen Morss . I was happy to be a part of this book as the illustrator.    Flying Poodles, A Christmas Story Karen's   Poodle Dog Productions website offers a pre-order for the book as well as the announcement for the iPad app.  The iPad will have quite a few extras for the audience that downloads the app. For every book sold, Karen offers a donation to the Smile Train Changing the World one smile at a time. So while you are smiling at her fantastic story, others who need to smile will have a chance to do so as well.

©Ginger Nielson

Better Late than Never! My post for the theme" City" for the month of July City Mouse/ Country Mouse  © Maria Madonna Davidoff My website: http://www.madonnaart.com/ My blog:  http://mariamadonnadavidoffsblog.blogspot.com/