I'm an artist and writer working on becoming an actual *published* children's book author and/or illustrator. By day, I'm a children's librarian, which allows me to observe elementary school kids in the wild and take notes on their unfathomable behaviors, primitive language, ritual snottiness, etc. I then use this information to add gritty realism to my stories about children dealing with ghosts and monsters and necromancers and stuff.
My artwork is influenced by the illustrators whose work made an enormous impression on my little pea-brain as a child (mainly William Steig, Trina Schart Hyman, and Edward Gorey), as well as by my love and respect for animals. Many of my drawings and paintings are of animals in various odd settings. Often these illustrations stem from a story that's hovering in the back of my mind -- although I have to admit I usually feel as though the beasties are keeping most of the story to themselves, and all I have been made privy to is the one weird little event that I'm drawing...
That's as much as I can stand to talk about myself! I'm boring.
