Do You Love to Color?   I certainly do. In fact, coloring books are one of the main reasons I dove so heavily into colored pencil. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always enjoyed a good scribble in a coloring book. They’ve always been a source of enjoyment, creativity, and therapy for me. A place where you can really just "check out". I’ve found that coloring gives me the freedom to focus on shading and creating texture without the worry of a “blank page.” I don’t have to

As many of you already know, I have just finished illustrating my very first children's book. This was quite an undertaking, to say the least. I thought I'd take some time and tell you about how I got into this project and how I went about executing it. One of my art students, Linda Hlozansky, had been taking painting lessons from me for nearly two years when she brought up the subject that she had written a children's book. As she told me about her little passion project an

Welcome to the Pencil Box aka my creative brain where you will find lots of pencil shavings that are my random thoughts, opinions, and...