The way I began illustrating books for kids was just a total call out of the blue. I’d been an illustrator for almost 15 years when I got the call from a small publisher, house publisher, that was called Moon Rising, that has been, since been bought by a bigger company, but they had seen my work, don’t ask me where. They had followed my work. They’ve seen it a couple of times, and they thought that the subject that they wanted to color on this new book would be very fitting with my style.
So it was one of those calls that you get out of nowhere. I never thought that my work would really apply well to children’s books, but here I am, seven years later, and I’m still busy, so it’s great.
The way it’s different from my previous work, the way books are different, is that you have to in a way tell a story and keep a consistency and produce more than one painting. So there lies the challenge, in keeping with this consistency lies the challenge of how do you do it? You know, so I was pretty terrified in the beginning. And I think that’s the biggest difference, that you’re not just saying something in one painting. You have to do it with 16 or 17 or 20 paintings.
