I’ve been quiet here lately. Sorry about that. I’ve been working on a new project. I’m illustrating Paul Maguire’s new children’s book The Genie Loophole. Here’s a background for one of the illustrations I’m working on today. I was playing with a distorted three point perspective. Fun. 
The fourth and final kite-themed image for the SCBWI Postcard Illustration Contest.
My third kite-themed entry for the SCBWI Postcard Illustration Contest.
My second kite-themed entry for the SCBWI Postcard Illustration Contest.
A delighted boy is carried aloft by his kite while his mother chases behind in a panic.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is having a Postcard Illustration Contest. I created some images for the competition. They are supposed to be kite-themed. Here’s the first one.
Here are my girls playing in the street.
Something lurks at the bottom of the basement stairs, and she just found it.
I put up a new coloring page in my Freebies section. I pulled all the colors and shading out of that monkey I made for Katie earlier this year and put that up as a coloring sheet. I think it turned out pretty good. Click to open the full-sized PDF.
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A baby monkey swings from a tree in the jungle while holding a banana.
Here’s more of a finished color version. Okay, I’m done playing with this one. On to something else…
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 