I have illustrated four books for Scholastic and Omnibus books.  Three are in bookshops and department stores and The Wheels on the Ute is being published later this year. 

The first book I illustrated is A little Bit.  It is written by Christine & Peter Maniaty and is a 2009 CBCA Notable Book.   I enjoyed painting all the fluffy ears for Goldilocks and the Three Koalas by Kel Richards.  The illustrations from The Eleventh Sheep by Kyle Mewburn are in an exhibition at Dromkeen Collection Art Gallery in Melbourne in July 2009.

Picture books are created collaboratively.  The writer sends a manuscript to the publisher and then the editor finds me (the illustrator).  I do life studies and sketches lots of drafts.  If I am having trouble drawing a character I make them out of clay.  I paint the final images with watercolour, coloured pencils, and crayons.  The wax in the crayon resists the paint and makes interesting shapes.