WPa SCBWI conference results

I have to say that the conference was wonderful. Bruce Colville, a terrific author, gave a wonderful presentation. I got to spend a lot of time with Kelley Cunningham, art director of High Five magazine. She was very frank and quite helpful in her critique of my portfolio, yet very easy to talk to. She seemed surprised that I had done my illustrations entirely in Painter 11. That 's a good thing! And she thought a lot of my work was very strong. She and editor are now reviewing a submission I sent them recently. Cross you fingers.

I also got to spend some time talking with Steve Meltzer, editor of Dutton and Dial Books for Young Readers. What a great guy. But he liked my surrealistic oil paintings (pictured above) much better than my picture book illustrations. He suggested working up some redo's of novel book covers done in the same manner. I'm thinking about it.