Here's one of my latest covers for the children's book written by Mayra Calvani called "Frederico, The Mouse Violinist."



And my next cover for Kevin McNamee's story "What Is That Thing?"


Kevin told that the little girl on this cover reminded him if his daughter.  That's so cute!!

I've been invited to submit two of my fine arts pieces to a very prestigious Western Art Show in Pendleton, Oregon which is for women artists only, so in between book illustrations, I just completed this mixed media painting (guache and prismacolor).  This painting is based on a photo I took of a young cowgirl in Nevada,  the daughter of the woman who runs the equine therapy center that Mary Jean Kelso contributes to from her Andy and The Albino Horse royalties.  The horses were following Amanda around because she had a bag of Chex snacks.  "Elvis" the horse really wanted some of those snacks!

I forgot that we had not posted the portrait of my grandkids to my blog, so here it is (just a little blurry).
Meet Colby and Savanna Snider:

This has been a really fun book to illustrate; I can use lots of imagination...

Here are a couple of the pages...

Here are a few of my illustrations from "Andy and Spirit Meet the Rodeo Queen", another great sequel written by Mary Jean Kelso.
 

You've seen the cover so here are just a few of the illustrations to give you a peak.

Well, we gave my son and daughter-in-law the portrait of my grandkids and then we gave my daughter and son-in-law their wedding portrait at Christmas and both were a great hit!  Here is the newlyweds' portrait in pastel:

Just in time for Christmas, "Baby Jesus Is Missing" written by Dixie Phillips has been released.  K.C. is very proud of her collaboration with Dixie and looks forward to more joint projects.
Here's the trailer designed by Dixie:

K.C. is so proud to announce that "Preston, The Not-So-Perfect Pig" written by her niece, Janie Robinson, has been released.  K.C. just giggled as she illustrated this wonderful story.
Janie wrote the music used for the trailer, too.

K.C. is so proud of Joshua Pengra, the winner of the Newberry Award for the 2009 Angel to Angel Book Writing Contest.  Joshua was in Ms. Zistil's 4th grade class where K.C. spoke about illustrating to help the kids with their writing/illustrating project.  He was one of the local finalists for the public library's book writing contest.  K.C. was instrumental in getting the five Redmond finalists' book projects submitted for the Angel to Angel contest.  Joshua's book was the national winner.  K.C. recently met with Joshua and his family to present him with his award.  It was a total surprise to him.  Needless to say, he was very pleased and his parents were 'over the moon.'
You can read Joshua's story at
http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/angeltoangel.htm
Here is a photo of the winner with K.C.: