A Fairy A Day: Coming soon!

2010-05-15T13:51:00.001-04:00

Welcome to yet another site (almost ready to begin ) offering a daily painting for your viewing (and possibly purchasing) pleasure! And it's about fairies! What could be more fun and fantastic (and I mean that literally, of course.)

So here's the preamble: I've been illustrating children's books for about thirteen years. In that time I have illustrated over 100 books, as well as piles and stacks of illustrations for teacher's guides, educational proficiency tests, posters, Sunday School booklets, and even some paper pop-up toys.

A lot of my paid illustration work has been squarely centered on the very real and rational world of the schoolroom experience. All certainly very pleasant -- and nice work, as they say, if you can get it. Yet my favorite ideas and images swirl around the fantastic and unreal.

So now it's time for fun.

Fairies (and other unusual beasties) are a thing of mine. I plan to spend at least a year creating and posting a fairy a day. Some may be sweet, some may be cute (I'm working on getting over the tendency toward cute, but this can be a hard habit to break...), but some will also be strange. And creepy. I promise.

I'm not quite ready to launch the blog officially (with actual fairies!), so we're live in name only for now. Stay tuned -- I'm looking at late June as the moment for the Unreal Launch. In the meantime, visit my website to see What I Drew in Church this Week (glimpses of some beasties and fairy folk there, for sure!) and other pictures and stuff.

Thanks for visiting -- hope you'll come back when the daily fairies start to appear!