CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

I used to have numerous sketchbooks, loose sketches and paintings hanging around in various places in my studio. Finding exactly that perfect sketch I may have done a year ago was...  let's just say ... nearly impossible. My solution for all those many graphics, illustrations, sketches and reference photos used to be to put them all in a steel file cabinet, or have my sketch books scattered in various places in my studio. It began to be impossible to find an exact sketch I knew I had "somewhere"  so I created a digital file cabinet in my computer.   Every file now has a place.  I collected my scans, paintings, photos and transferred the into appropriately named folders and sub folders and put the whole batch on an external computer drive.  This way I have a portable file of all my work that does not clutter up the valuable space on my computer and is safe from any unforseen crashes.   A complete article explaining the how and the why is on my website if...

Recently I was chosen to be interviewed as Artist of the Week, by an interesting art blog in Bulgaria. They have just begun sharing their blog in English and I was delighted to be asked to participate. The artists they have interviewed over the past weeks are an amazing group. I hope you will visit the blog and read about all the other fine artists. As part of the interview I did get to post the cover art from the latest book I illustrated, Little Charley Thornpaws,  by Caelaach McKinna.  The book has just been released by the publisher 4RV Publishing LLC, and will be available on their site as well as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and any and all bookstores.