Cornicopia

In honor of Fall, here's a cornucopia of goodies...

Here's a sneak peek, this one's a sketch of a bedroom idea possibly going into the first book. Still waiting on the text, and my excitement is overwhelming. It's a waterfall world and I'm envisioning lots of open air huts for all the little creatures to live in.

This is a new character page I've been working on. A human not an animal- gasp! She's way tougher than me, with worse eyesight.

 
AND-  Exciting news- I am meeting one of my art heros James Jean tomorrow at a small gallery in Paris! He is on a tour/book signing of his latest art book which I think is called 'Rebus'. I love that I have to leave California, where we both live, to meet him. Hopefully by Sunday there will be an uber nerdy picture of us right here if I can swing it. Either way I'll post something about that.


Finally here's a picture of Paris in the Fall, because pictures are nice.

Tuileries Garden

**Update: I met James Jean yesterday! It was a small crowd at Gallery Arludick (about 30 people), so he was able to spend around 10 minutes with each of us, and he drew a little picture for all of us in our books. I learned a few things about where he's at in his career right now, so I thought I'd share in case there are any other superfans out there:

- He is strictly working on fine art now, which is what he always wanted to do anyway. He feels that his illustration career was a detour that gave him 'good chops' and a following.

- It sounds like he has a big career-defining Fine Art show show in the works, which he was reluctant to talk about as he didn't want to jinx it.

- His sketches from his sketchbook take many many hours, often 2 weeks (on and off) to complete. The fastest he has worked was one he did in 6 hours after mapping out the illustration beforehand (which is this one)

- He just started driving this year. AND HE LIVES IN LA!

Alrightie so here's the picture I promised and his new book, as well as the drawing he did in my book. 

I know, I know- it's hard to tell who's more excited about taking this picture...