When a forest fire destroys their home, Mama Bear and her two rambunctious cubs must traverse a busy city in order to find a new home in another mountain.
Can you guess who these toes belong to?
HUG HOG, a 450-word picture book, is the story of a groundhog whose love for hugging knows no bounds. Unfortunately, it also respects no boundaries. After yet another hugging rampage, the animals of the forest decide it’s finally time to tame the Hug Hog.
With vaccines and an end to the era of social distancing on the horizon, there’s a lot of pent up hugging energy in the world right now. Hug Hog hopes to lend a helping hand when it’s finally time to navigate our hugging renaissance.
Bears from all around the world love to dance, but what’s the secret behind this ursine obsession with moving to the beat?
When a crack in the wall of the mushroom farm let’s in a little light, Button gets the idea that there might be more to life than simply being delicious. But can he convince the other mushrooms to give up their lives of peaceful cultivation for a new life as wild mushrooms?
Every picture I paint or draw suggests at least one story to me. Here are a few of my favorite stories from the drawing/painting desk.
Dirt bike rallies aren’t known for being the most peaceful and placid of venues. But when the riders are all dinosaurs, comedy and chaos can’t be far behind.
Gouache on hot pressed watercolor paper.
Could a troop of folk music playing big cats make it in the Big City? They’ll never know until they give it a try.
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For our family a little house in the country is about as close to Heaven as you can get. Our lives change when some neighbors move in next door who like a whole different kind of country living.
It can be a rough and tumble world out there in the Twitter pitch arena. The important thing is to make it through the day and keep smiling.
Gouache on hot-press watercolor paper
The Fox just wants to read her book in peace, but it seems no one in the forest will let her. No matter where she tries to hide there are always pesky peepers looking over her shoulder.
Gouache on hot-pressed watercolor paper
The Professor is very good at talking. He knows every fact imaginable. His idea of a good conversation is a fact filled lecture on a topic of little interest. There’s just one problem, how will he ever find someone to listen?
When the Wrestle-Rama-Drome goes out of business, the wrestlers will have to find other jobs. This guy is delivering a phone message. Pretty soon the city will be filled with pile-driving baristas, suplexing grocery baggers and clotheslining pizza delivery tag teams.
For these two old friends the real fun of an outing is what happens along the way to the destination.
Gouache on hot-pressed watercolor paper
Logan is a bear who likes to joke, but are his friends laughing with him?
There are a lot more tourists in the water these days and it has Patricia feeling down until she has an idea. Maybe there is a way to get all these tourists out of the water, but she’s going to need a lot of help.
Pounce is suave and debonair. He’s funny and a good listener. Frankly, he’s the kind of otter that other otters want to be, so when he falls head over heels for a flower, he has a hard time imagining why the object of his affection keeps ignoring him. Pounce is going to have to come to terms with the fact that flowers show their fondness in very different ways than otters.
Is agent fan art a thing? Probably not. But, when Janet Reid (AKA The Query Shark) pointed out I’d forgotten to add a contact page to my website, I figured some fan art was in order.
Lucas won the lotto and now all his problems have been solved forever, or have they?
Montegue the Mostly Fearless is peerless when it comes to stunts of daring do. However, crowds are a whole other matter. Will he ever be able to overcome his fear of crowds to receive the accolades his stunts deserve?
Ruthie loves her best (and only) friend Bitsy. When Bitsy decides their life of quiet walks in the park, sipping tea and reading books is too boring, she begins to make some changes. Will Ruthie be able to keep up with Bitsy’s antics or will she lose the only friend she’s got?
When he volunteered to make the cake for his teacher Ms. Crowley’s birthday, Jayden thought it would be a snap. It turns out he has an awful lot to learn about baking and time is growing short.
Kiki loves coffee at her favorite coffee shop, the Corner Cafe. She loves it so much, she decides to open her own shop. Problems begin to crop up when it turns out Kiki has crossed the line between inspiration and just plain being a copy cat. Will she lose her coffee shop when the owner of the Corner Cafe complains?
Oliver is the best student in his class. Getting straight A’s is easy. When he decides to go into the bow tie business, he finds out success is much more than memorizing facts for a test.