I think this is the final version. Unless I notice something that needs changing. 
And here it is in black and white.
I designed it as a two-page spread with a bit of room at the top and bottom for cropping if needed. It’s all done in layers, so the signature can be moved or removed and the colors can be individually fiddled with as necessary. The center line falls about where the mom’s elbow is, so nothing important is obscured by the fold.
I made some Zazzle things with this design. Those can be found here.
Just a quick sketch for the holidays.
Macro Pumpkin Blossoms
Trivia:
These are male pumpkin blossoms.
Macro Nearly Wild Roses
Trivia:
The spider is known as a Daring Jumping Spider. It’s orange spots mean that it’s a fairly young one. The spots will turn white as it gets older. This type of spider is a hunter rather than a web weaver.
Macro White Roses
Macro Mums and Yellow Woodsorrel
Trivia:
Yellow Woodsorrel is edible.
I’d also like to mention that I like how you can now post multiple galleries to one post in WordPress. 🙂 Very useful.
An illustration by Jez Alborough for Duck in the Truck. Notice how the muck spills out of the panel?
My youngest daughter brought home a book the other day titled Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough. Here it is on Amazon. Look at the preview and you can see some of the images. What I like about it particularly is the way he laid it out. The illustrations themselves are great, energetic, expressive scenes worthy of admiration on their own. However, the layout is what struck me. See, he laid the illustrations out in panel style a bit like a comic strip. The text is in the white space underneath each panel, which is very easy to read (I always appreciate that). But what I liked best is that as it gets further into the book and things get hard and messy and chaotic for the characters, the scenes start to spill outside of the boxes. They don’t obscure the words at all. Those are still in white space, but the panel boxes seem unable to contain the action and muck. Then when things calm down, they scenes are neat and in their boxes again. I just really like how the illustrator did that.
My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World by Gilles Bacelet. The twist is that it’s not a cat.
And while I’m mentioning other illustrator’s work that I admire, I’d like to mention My Cat, The Silliest Cat in the World by Gilles Bachelet. Here it is on Amazon. It’s another one that my daughter brought home from school, but this one came home last year sometime. Anyway, this story would be really inane without the illustrations. It’s this guy just talking about the normal, weird things his cat does in a day. But the twist is that the illustrations aren’t of a cat at all. They’re of an elephant! That makes all the difference! So, it’s like this guy doesn’t know that his cat is really an elephant. I think the elephant thinks he’s a cat too. It’s really funny to see the elephant doing all the things ascribed to the cat.
I added this to my Zazzle store.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 