Picture Book Month: Rabbits

I thought Leo the Lop would be a perfect match for today's Picture Book Month theme of rabbits.  I adore those old Serendipity books and always make sure to scout used bookstores for titles missing from my growing collection:

I have only a fraction of the 70 (!) Serendipity titles.  I guess I'll have to keep hunting for the rest!

Picture Book Month!

November is the month to celebrate the print picture book!  Every day a new essay by a "picture book champion" celebrating picture books can be found at http://picturebookmonth.com.  

Lots of other fun activities can be found on the site as well.  I particularly like the calendar.  I thought it might be fun to take each day's theme from the calendar and see if I can find a picture book in my own collection that fits the theme.  If you want to play along, post picture books you own or love that fit the theme in the comments.  I'd love to see what everyone comes up with.  So, starting today, the first daily theme is Ocean.  I think The Walloping Window Blind by Charles E. Carryl, illustrated by Jim LaMarche fits the theme pretty well:

Acorn Emergency!

This illustration is currently appearing in this month's issue of Ladybug magazine.  Can you find all the acorns?

Owl Artist

I have a painting that's very close to finished, but it will have to wait since at the moment I am tied up with work I can't show.  So, in the meantime, here's a little owl I painted for warm-up a while ago.  He's for sale at my Etsy Shop:

"Winter Campfire" Christmas Cards

I realize it's quite a bit early to be thinking about Christmas, but I know some people (me! me!) like to get started on their shopping early.  With that said, I've just listed two 4-pack sets of of "Winter Campfire" Christmas cards at my Etsy shop. I'm hoping to find more of these cards buried somewhere, but at the moment it looks like this is it, so get them while you can!

4-pack set of 5.5 x 7.25 greeting cards printed on card stock. Image framed by a 1/8" white border. Four white envelopes included. Blank inside.

Pythagoras & Zero - in Chinese!

I brought in my mail today and discovered, to my delight, copies of the Chinese translations of my books, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? and A Place for Zero!  I'm usually informed about the sales of foreign rights, but I'm always quite surprised when translated copies arrive in the mail - a really fun surprise!  I love seeing the foreign publishers' different approaches to cover design - quite different from the American versions!  There's barely a word of English to be found in these books, but I see a url on the back cover for Foreign Language Teaching and Resource Press, so I'm going to guess that's the Chinese publisher...

Pansy Watercolor Study

Pansies from my little balcony garden!  I really like doing these simple watercolor nature studies every now and then.  They're almost relaxing to me - probably because they don't take anywhere near as long to paint as my usual techniques.  I'll have to do more of them.  :)

Available here at my Etsy Shop.