wild life drawing

This drawing makes me laugh.

It's a Party!

I finished my work today, a book dummy.

Reading at Monkeyshines

Thank you to everyone who stopped by! It was a fun time.

More Books at Uppercase

A fresh shipment of books have arrived and been signed by me at Uppercase (www.uppercasegallery.ca)

Name Day Card

Love Mike and Bao Bao.

Intermission - Deer riding scooter

A funny thing about doing a kid's books is that the book is created about a year and half or more before it is published. This year I have been working on two books, neither of which have pandas. This is a recent sketch drawn while developing some of the characters. It's not directly from the book, just trying to bring the character to life by putting it in fun poses.

Reading and Book Launch this Saturday Nov 15

I will be doing a book reading and talking about pandas and such this Saturday Nov. 15, 1 pm at Monkeyshines Children's Books in the Mardaloop area. 113, 2215 - 33rd Ave SW. Stop by if you can!

Opening at Uppercase

Thanks to all those who dropped by to the Little Panda Opening at Uppercase, I had a wonderful time! Sorry about running out of books, Janine expects to have a new shipment next week. Books will be available and I will be doing a reading at Monkeyshines Children's Books in Mardaloop at 1 pm Saturday November 15. Books are also available at Pages in Kensington, as well as Chapters and Indigo stores.

Little Panda in Swerve and thingsofdesire.ca

Little Panda is mentioned in today's issue of the Calgary Herald's Swerve Magazine (Friday Nov 7) - Thanks to Shelley Youngblut!

Also thanks to Mike Landry who interviewed me about Little Panda for issue #12 of his art blogzine - www.thingsofdesire.ca
It's fun to have Little Panda included with the contemporary art featured.

Toronto Public Library Top 10

I was very excited to read that Little Panda was listed in The Toronto Public Library's Top 10 list for preschoolers!
Here is a brief article from The Toronto Star:
http://www.thestar.com/AgeGroups/Preschoolers3-5/article/531106
And a mention of it on Quill and Quire magazine's blog:
http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/06/tpl-approved-books-for-preschoolers/

Little Panda At Uppercase

Please join us this Thursday, Nov 6 from 5 to 9 pm
to celebrate the opening of Little Panda, an exhibition
of selected artwork from the newly released book.

Uppercase Gallery in Art Central will be hosting the
exhibition from November 6 to November 30.

UPPERCASE is located on the upper level of Art Central,
at the corner of 7th Avenue SW and Centre Street.

www.uppercasegallery.ca
www.littlepandabook.com

Getting ready for Little Panda show

Getting ready for the show at Uppercase which opens this Thursday.