CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

 New Illustration Website! -   deborahcuneoillustration.com  I'm very excited to announce the launching of my new website! I hope you'll check it out and let me know what you think, either in the contact form on the site or here on the blog in the comment section. To join my mailing list, just use the contact form on the website. Looking forward hearing from you!!

The sea birds have set up a satellite location in the country while the Gulf oil spill is being cleaned up. Have you ever seen seagulls, pelicans and chickens all under one roof? Me neither, but here’s how I imagine it would look: The prompt for Illustration Friday this week was “satellite,” and the prompt for the CBIG Blog this month was “country.” I decided to combine the two in a painting for the ripple blog (to help animals affected by the oil spill). Please visit sruble.com to learn more about my art and projects, or my blog to see more recent art.

Country © Izabela Gabrielson Ink pen on watercolor paper http://artmilky.blogspot.com/

The prompt for the CBIG blog this month is green, and the prompt for Illustration Friday this week is detective. I thought that any literary detective worth his salt would wonder where green eggs came from, and if he used his sleuthing skills, he’d come up with the answer. Green eggs come from green chickens. It’s the only thing that makes sense. The chicken that lays green eggs. The next question the detective should answer, is which came first, the green chicken, or the green eggs? (I think the green chicken came first. What do you think?) p.s. The prompt for WaWe this week was The Little Red Hen. Hmm, I’m thinking that history got it wrong. It was really The Little GREEN Hen! Please visit sruble.com to learn more about my art and projects, or my blog to see more recent art.

Daria the chicken took up snowboarding this winter. This is a new image from a picture book dummy and my portfolio . There are three new images up in  my CBIG portfolio , including this image, Daria the chicken taking up skydiving, and an elephant. Please visit  sruble.com  to learn more about my art and projects, or  my blog  to see more recent art.

These two paintings for  Watercolor Wednesdays   and the  CBIG blog  are from a YA zombie graphic novel I’m working on, starring  Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader . The graphic novel isn’t in watercolor, but I thought I’d do some zombie watercolors this month because Watercolor Wednesdays has school prompts every week. Sheila’s first day back at school was yesterday. (She wouldn’t let me post her first day picture last week. If I did, she said she’d, “eat my brains!”) Sheila’s best friend Amanda suffered through the first day with her. Here’s their first day picture, which Sheila said I could post today: Sheila the Zombie Cheerleader's first day of school Sheila and Amanda are talking about the new teacher in the next picture: Zombie High staff changes ... The black line for both images is acrylic paint and the color is watercolor crayon. I love watercolor crayons because they make me feel like a kid again. I get to color with crayons, then paint. Fun! Maybe next week I’ll do crayon r...

This is from my new portfolio on my new website .