This week’s DWJMarch read-aloud was requested by my Wonderful Mother, who asked for something from The Spellcoats! * The Spellcoats is the third book in the Dalemark Quartet, though it takes place prior to all the others. However, like the Chronicles of Narnia, these books are best read in the order in which they were written: Cart and Cwidder, …
This week I’m blogging from the road, but I’ve still got a snippet of Diana Wynne Jones for you! This time it’s my own selection, from my personal favorite: Hexwood. * Hexwood is a standalone novel—sadly. But what a novel! Robots! Dragons! And a definite treat for anyone interested in a new take on European …
Good morning! And welcome to the first edition of my Diana Wynne Jones Read-aloud for DWJMarch! This week I’m reading an excerpt of The Magicians of Caprona, as requested by Kristen M of webereading.com. Enjoy! * *The Magicians of Caprona © 1980 Diana Wynne Jones is the second novel she wrote which takes place in the related …
As I mentioned on Twitter last week, I’m going to be doing something a little special this year for #MarchMagics/#DWJMarch. In an effort not only to celebrate the work of Diana Wynne Jones but to perhaps introduce her to people who might not have had the joy of reading her—yet—for every Sunday in March I’ll …
Colored pencils • prints and merch here! • buy the book here! Cover art for Professor Odd Episode 7: The Dogs of Canary Island. Now that the book is out, I can finally share the original cover art! This was done largely over the course of January/February 2015, all in colored pencils, as I do with …
It’s been a very busy summer and autumn. How busy? Well, I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to blog here at all! But this is okay; I’ve been doing lots of writing instead—and I have the books to show for it! First, there’s the second installment of Driving Arcana stories, Rotation Two, which …
MERCURY • colored pencil, ink and paint pen • 9”x12” bristol board Prints and merch available here! Returning to my Planet Horse series, meet the first of the terrestrial planet horses: Mercury! Here represented by an Icelandic Horse performing its distinctive gait, I wanted to evoke the fleet-footedness of both the planet (Mercury has the …
I am currently installed at Mary Capaldi’s house, enjoying an extended vacation after the amazing hecticality that was AnthroCon. It is very wet and green and there are fireflies. It is nice. This AnthroCon was both the shortest and longest weekend of my life. It was short in that things flew by so quickly, but …
NEBULA • Personal work • 2015 • 11”x14” mixed media Print available! Revisiting my Planet Horse series (now perhaps more accurately called the Celestial Horses), this is the latest and largest edition: Nebula. Unlike the others, which were all modeled off existing horse breeds, Nebula sprung right out of my imagination—but she looks like some …
OURANOS 2015 • personal work Mixed media: acrylic ink, colored pencil and metallic pen on 9”x12” bristol board. Print available! Progress pics here! This is a redone version of the original Ouranos of my Planet Horse series from 2013. In this incarnation, Ouranos—third of the gas giants and first of the ice giants—is modeled off …
