My second activity book for kids is available from Get Creative 6 Publishing! This was another super-fun project for me to work on this and (just like before) the people at Get Creative 6 were a pleasure to work with. Pippa is a unicorn who loves pizza, but doesn’t know how to make it. She sets off on a journey to ask all her friends for help her make her own pizza. The book features pages to color, scratch-off artwork, puzzles, games, and, of course, plenty of pizza for everybody! Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Pippa the unicorn goes on a quest to learn how to make pizza so she can have a party with all her friends in the kingdom. Activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, and puzzles. Publisher: Get Creative 6. Art Director Jennifer Markson. Illustration by Scott DuBar.
Kids flying a spaceship from Earth to Mars, encountering robots, asteroids, aliens, and more. Brain Quest Grade 4 Fold-out poster. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.Colorful frogs enjoying their rainforest habitat. Brain Quest Pre-K Deck Cards. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.Mom helps her son with his Brain Quest Grade 6 Workbook. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.A family has fun together watching butterflies. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.Helpful robot holding up a large pencil. Brain Quest Grade 4 Workbook. Art Director Erica Green. Illustration by Scott DuBar.
Brain Quest 30th Anniversary series of educational workbooks and deck cards.
I’m so happy I can finally share SOME of what I’ve been up to for the past 2.5 years. First off is artwork for the Brain Quest 30th anniversary series of bestselling workbooks and deck cards. Over 2,500 spot illustrations along with some half and full-page, and four fold-out poster illustrations!
The Brain Quest series includes kids from age two all the way up to age twelve, which provided me with a fair amount of variety in terms of drawing style and subject matter. From exotic creatures and landmarks, to Model Ts and spaceships, I was constantly kept on my toes as an illustrator!
This was truly a dream project for me. The magnitude of this project didn’t fully sink in, however, until I paid a visit to Barnes and Noble and saw a display of all the workbooks and deck cards. Seeing a whole shelf display filled with Brain Quest products with my artwork in all of them was an amazing moment.
Big, heartfelt thanks to Dawn and Kevin from Fan Works Design, Art Director Erica Green, and the great folks at Brain Quest and Workman Publishing for bringing me on board and being so great to work with!
Illustrator Scott DuBar contributed over 2,500 illustrations to the 30th Anniversary Brain Quest Workbooks and Deck Cards editions.
My third children’s book, Zippy Buzzy Bee, won a Platinum MarCom Award in the Cartoon category of the international 2021 MarCom Awards! Thanks to the MarComs, author Deborah Cross, and to Fabi Preslar at SPARK Publications for entering Zippy Buzzy Bee (and for being so great to work with)!
Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the annual MarCom competition is one of the largest for creative professionals and receives submissions from nineteen countries around the world.
I’ve been so busy lately with a really big, super-secret project that I almost forgot to post about this!
Cover art and spot illustrations I did for the book How To Learn Spanish. Published by Hikari Press. Written by Maria Blanco, Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Westminster and a language learning strategies specialist.
My latest children’s book, Dreamwalker and Chloe, is available now for Kindle. Written by Callie Michael. Published by Heavy Crown Press.
Dreamwalker and Chloe is a chapter book about a young horse who is separated from his mother too soon. When a back injury renders him “unrideable,” his owners treat him very badly. Once two loving new owners take him on, however, he finally finds his forever home.
Cover art for Chicken Feathers. Written by Stephnie Cameron and illustrated by Scott DuBar. Published by Clear Fork Publishing.
I’m happy to announce that Chicken Feathers is now available from Clear Fork Publishing just in time for Christmas reading! This is my second children’s book, and my first chapter book. It’s a timeless tale of good fashion, dog rescuing, and standing up to bullies. Written by Stephanie Cameron.
Synopsis:
Lissy is a fashionista with a thrill for reuniting lost dogs and their owners. When she falls in love with her latest neighborhood rescue, she’s shocked to learn his owner is the one person in school she would never want to help. Will she hold herself together at the dog delivery of a lifetime? Based on a true story.
Here’s a cute, little rainbow bee I did at the request of a client who loved my bee illustrations. After seeing it, though, she realized she wanted me to go in a different direction in terms of the overall design. I think she made the right choice since her bee character is part of a bigger project (more on that later!) and the new design fits in much better for that.
It will probably be awhile before I can share anything from the project this was intended for, so I thought I would at least share something fun from the initial design stage.
Author Angie Miles and I are happy to share a free coloring booklet featuring some of the characters from our picture book Short Pump Bump, available now in my shop as a PDF file parents can print out. It really is free, but you’ll still have to add it to your shopping cart and go through the motions of checking out (no credit card info needed).
Flyer design for The Last Train from Djibouti, by author Otis Lee and published by Koehler Books.
Promotional designs for the launch of a new book by author Otis Lee titled The Last Train From Djibouti. Otis will be attending many book events and needed a variety of promotional items, from flyers (shown above) to bookmarks, business cards, and several event table displays. I was glad that Otis came to me with a clear idea for everything he needed to be designed as it made it easy for me to keep a consistent look for everything.
Promotional bookmark design for author Otis Lee’s book The Last Train from Djibouti. Published by koehlerbooks.com.
Promotional business card design for author Otis Lee’s book, The Last Train from Djibouti. Published by koehlerbooks.com.
Illustrated map of Africa. Highlights the train route taken from Djibouti to Ethiopia along with two other countries visited- Uganda and Botswana.
The illustrated map of Africa was my personal favorite among the event table displays. Otis wanted something colorful that also highlighted both the train route they took as well as the various countries that they visited. My solution was to do a map featuring Africa’s temperate zones from arid to jungle while showing the visited countries in purple for nice color contrast. In addition to giving visual interest, it also helps give the viewer a better sense of what the landscape would look like for each of the places described in the book.
I am so happy and honored to be invited to speak to students at Tye River Elementary School about my first children’s book, Short Pump Bump! Here’s the flyer I designed for the event, which is taking place on April 10. This will actually be my first school visit for the book, so I am extra grateful to get the ball rolling!
My visit will include:
A reading of some of my favorite poems from Short Pump Bump
Discussion of how I came up with ideas for the poem illustrations
Samples of my original artwork from the book
Free bookmarks for all the students!
Kids who placed book orders in time will get their signed copies that day!
