
Illustrator | Author | Designer
More about me …
Making art brings me joy. I love to sketch inky images and illustrate children’s books.๐ My latest picture book is Chick Chat ๐ฅ๐ฌ (2021). My next book is Sloth Is Not a Baby! ๐ฆฅ๐ซ๐ถ๐ป by Nelly Buchet, illustrated by me, which will publish in early 2024!
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I love creating visual stories (and characters) with heart โค๏ธ and humor ๐คฃ that readers can relate to emotionally—whether it’s over the span of a 32-page picture book or through a single illustration.
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For drawing โ๏ธ I work almost all digitally, using an art tablet and stylus with my computer ๐ป or with an Apple Pencil on an iPad. For color work ๐จ I usually combine digital drawing, inking, and painting with traditional watercolor and other natural media.
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As a kid, I was curious, creative, determined, and very chatty ๐ฌ—just like Baby Chick. ๐ฅ I was always ready for an adventure, whether real or imagined, and so is Baby Chick!
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Here’s my first-grade school ๐ photo. My six-year-old self was chatting while having my first picture taken at school! Hair a bit messy, a funny expression, and my arms crossed—that was me.
Being the youngest child, I entertained myself quite a bit when not playing with neighbor friends. ๐ณ I made up crafts for myself, usually making something out of something else (like a robot ๐ค from cardboard oatmeal containers, cardboard boxes ๐ฆ, aluminum foil, and tape, lots of tape).
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas, but spent quite a bit of time in East Texas on my grandparents’ farm or my family’s 80 acres.๐ Poking around in creeks and back pastures, I was always bringing home some new, non-human “friend.” ๐ธ
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I’ve been asked if I have a yard full of chickens. ๐ I don’t, but I wish I did! I grew up around chickens on relatives’ farms, and my parents kept a coop of “chicken girls” that my sister and I bought for them after they moved from Dallas and retired to their own farm ๐. I loved gathering eggs, ๐ฅespecially the light aqua-colored Ameraucana eggs.
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I now live in a cozy, 100-year-old house ๐ in Michigan, USA ๐บ๐ธ and spend time in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Europe ๐ซ๐ท whenever possible.

