Salem

Wicked!

For Cynthea and Christi,
Hey I saw this sign yesterday and thought of you. Hope your Birthday's were WICKED!
WICKED WICKED WICKED!!




Hey I found another one...

and another...

Elementary, my dear Doyle!

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Booksellers! Bring Lane Smith to Boston

Sometimes during my freetime, I don my "Illustrator Groupie" hat and harass-I mean write to favorite Illustrators. (in the past I have also written to animators, including Mark Henn, and Tim Burton..yes he used to be an animator!)
Anyway, Lane Smith, who recently published his fabulous book John, Paul, George & Ben, has yet to do a book signing in Boston. So I inquired, through Ye olde email the following:
Dear Mr. Smith,
I have a question, has your book tour brought you to Boston yet or did I totally miss this opportunity!? If not, I hope you will consider Ol' Beantown. We revolutionaries would love to have you. (If you haven't come yet, I might have to send a youthful Thomas Paine to teach you some Common Sense!)
Sincerely,
Bonnie


Mr. Smith kindly replied:
Hi Bonnie,
I keep asking the publisher to send me to Boston but so far I haven't been there. You'd think that would be a no-brainer. Hopefully, some nice Beantown Bookseller will request my presence from ye olde Hyperion Books.
Glad you liked my book!
--Lane

http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/

WHOAH!

Could it be? No wait...AH YES IT IS!!!

THE SUN!!!!! The sun is out today!! After 6 days of heavy down pour!!!
Yippppeee!

Reception and Lilacs!

My friend Joyce was visting from New York so afterwards we headed over to Arnold Arboretum to see the Lilac Grove!

Finished!!!

Well, I'm very excited that my piece for the "Beauty in Building Materials" show is finished! The opening reception is today from 2-5 at the JP Art Market in Jamaica Plain.
Here are some quick pix of my spiffy "Children's Hat rack"






To view my artist statement, please click on the picture below to enlarge