This month we are starting the MATS Bootcamp with vintage dolls & faces as our first assignment. I love nesting dolls and thought a L...

Let's get busy with the making and doing this week!  

Inspired by yesterday's nature walk.  Hello. The heat is a welcomed change to the air conditioned world I have been existing in fo...

These two little fellows popped up in my sketchbook yesterday. Which had me thinking about when my girls were little and our bedtime ritual...

Yesterday our SCBWI illustrators packed up our sketchbooks and pencils and headed to the San Jose Mission here in San Antonio.  This is a re...

Hope you are enjoying some fall fun - pretty soon it will be time to carve pumpkins and enjoy caramel apples!  I have been shopping at local...

A quick little bit of research on Amazon yielded over 2000 books for kids about bears and 800 about squirrels.  Here is a list of some of my...

This sketch is one of those surprises where you start with something (bear engrossed in a book) and then some little character just moseys o...

In keeping with my no short-cut theme, I have been working hard on building a visual vocabulary in my sketchbook.  I've ordered a few r...

I'm so ready for days like this!  I created this little sketch for our fall banner over at the The Sketchables .

A random collection of doodles - back to school girls.  One thing I've been trying to embrace is less than perfection in my sketchbooks ...

Yep, that's the life. Can't wait to see these worked up...off to carve more!

More watercolor studies.  Practice, practice, practice.  It's really Heather vs. Watercolor as I try to make this stuff behave.  I nee...

Yanked from my sketchbook.  I would like to move a little more into the middle grade/tween market with my illustrations.  So what does one d...

Hop on over the Sketchables blog  to find out what question this illustration answers! The Sketchables is a new group blog that we formed...

Three little beachcombers doing exactly what I'd like to be doing at this moment! I had to take a little blogging break while I prepar...

A little diversion from the old to-do list. Do you do this - there are deadlines and project you know you should be working on, but then an ...

Two random owl sketches. Nothing more, nothing less.

Experiencing failure and finding your passion can lead to fearless abandon when you discover your joy in this world. A little sketch tha...