This video is me interviewing my brother in-law, Tom Gilson who has formatted my three ebooks - Monkey & Croc, Tickle Bugs, and Pollywog...

I'm having way too much fun with the "brushes" app on my ipad. I painted this at a doctors office and in the car waiting for m...

Also, if you have any questions for Tom on itunes publishing and formatting -just ask here and I'll make sure he answers it in the next ...

I've been emailing a new friend from the UK - Justin Cook, who has been poking around the internet (like all of us) looking for informat...

Ok, where to start? First some facts: Monkey & Croc was indie published on B&N 6 months ago. It's now selling between 100 and 1...

I've been working hard on Helen Ketteman's picture book - Senorita Gordita - a fractured fairly tale of the little ginger bread man ...

I just got back from the Utah Festival of Books in Provo where I spoke on a panel and the discussion of ebooks came up which inspired this w...

Von and Kari Brimhall have gone completely nuts on ebooks! They are two of my very best friends from college and have always been into art a...

I'm so glad I don't have to learn anymore! After all I've been a professional illustrator for 19 years now, and I think I'm ...

If you've been following my blog you know I've been spending a lot of time writing and illustrating and then publishing my own ebook...

So school got out last week and I used my extra time to produce another video series - Acrylic Painting. I've wanted to do this now for ...

Some quick updates on my experience on Barnes and Noble.com. Unfortunately due to my workload right now I have to make this a quick update a...

Here's another piece for my portfolio - I love creating a piece out of nothing. I started with photo reference of lizards and went from ...

This is a continuation of our discussion here on ebooks. Since this is such a new industry the only way we can get good information is to sh...

Last week I got an email from Illustrator Laura Zarrin asking if I thought publishing my own children's ebooks is financially worth the...

I gave my Illustration 1 class this assignment: Setting: Castle content: One human figure Concept: "Something's coming" I was ...

Just for fun I took a picture of my mentor- Perry Stuart an amazing illustrator and figure artist and teacher at UVU. I enlarged it, printed...

I just released another ebook on Barnes and noble.com! My other books have really been encouraging. There are two things I really like about...

Last night I decided to avoid working on the projects that pay real money and do something just for fun. I painted this in photoshop last ni...

I've been a freelance illustrator for almost 20 years and for the first 17 it was business as usual. In the last three years I've se...

So these are some character sketches from the new book I'm working on with Helen Ketteman - author of Armadilly Chili and The Three Lit...

I'll start by asking the first question: Michelle, what kind of mistakes do you see beginning illustrators or for that matter profession...

Today I have a treat for you - Michelle Bayuk (Director of Marketing for Albert Whitman & Company) has agreed to answer questions from a...

Oops I did it again - I couldn't help it - I had to make another ebook! Monkey & Croc has been doing so well that I've been moon...

Well I just finished signing books again for the CTA (California Teachers Association)in L.A. I blogged about this last year (click here if ...

This was a little mouse doodle in my sketchbook that I painted in Photoshop and posted a few weeks ago. Yesterday I painted it in acrylic as...

So anyway, I had such a great response to my "How to Illustrate Children's Books" video series that I decided to make another ...

Ok, This is totally embarrassing but I'm putting it up here because it fits with the whole children's book theme of this blog. Be pr...