Molly McGee - The work begins

Molly McGee - The Work Begins!!

I am currently working on my next book. (Yipee!)
This is the story of Molly McGee who lives in the year 1922.
Molly moves into a new home and is not very happy about leaving her old neighborhood and house behind.  She makes two new friends and has a little adventure with her teddy bear, Pierre. Of course, in the end, she is happy in her new home on 33 Elm Street.

In this story, I try to point out some differences between life in 1922 and today.  I wanted to show how even though there were many things different, kids were still kids. That fact has not changed, children still like to play. 

I think this is going to be a fun story and I am excited to be illustrating people again.  I had so much fun developing the characters in my last book Trouble For Nils, I wanted another book where I could draw people, this book has several characters for me to have fun with.  It will also be a lot of fun with the 1920's styles. 

Even though my story is not 100% written (about 95% done) and I do not have a title
Molly McGee has come to life along with her new home. What do you think?

Announcing:

Trouble for Nils

The Story of a Christmas Tomte

Just in time for the holiday season!

Out now on Amazon.com

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Jerome Needs a Home Available Now!

Jerome Needs a Home

Is now available for purchase.

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Meet the animals from 

The Brightmeadow Zoo 

who help Jerome find a Home!

Having fun with Jerome Needs a Home

I have not posted in a while, seems I have been very caught up in my latest creation, "Jerome Needs a Home".  I have been having so much fun with this book!

The main characters in the book are Jerome the "Alien" and Gretel a zookeeper at the Brightmeadow Zoo.  Jerome arrives at the zoo one day in a wooden crate labeled BEWARE.  It ends up Jerome is quite friendly and asks Gretel to find him a home.   They venture through the zoo trying to find Jerome just the right home.

What makes the process of creating this book so much fun for me is the different characters I have been able to draw.  First off, we have Jerome, the Alien.  Jerome could be anything I wanted him to be. Only criteria here was to make sure he had a long neck and big ears, to fit into the story line. 

 

Next, we have Gretel, which was fun drawing a human being. Had fun drawing her with her cute pigtails and bows.  And lastly, the different animals.  The more challenging aspect, but also so much fun to draw.  Take all that and add to it I was able to use a lot of different marker colors. Always so exciting me!

I am closing in on completing my drawings for this book and can not wait to get this one published for all to see!