I’ve been working on this illustration for four days; painting one tiny piece of garbage at a time. It’s leaving me with the gross sensation that I’m wading through all of this stuf...
are in! They’ve all been posted on the Wildwood blog. Here is the 3rd place winning map: mysterious YenaStoy. by Benjamin Siler, age 11, and Graham Boswell, age 12, of Memphis, Tennessee.
I loved Sendak’s books when I was a little kid but, when I rediscovered them as a miserable teenager, I loved them more. When I unearthed Outside Over There – that angsty, surreal, forlor...
is from my (actual, physical object) photo collection.
Hello! Over on the Wildwood blog, we’re having a mapmaking contest. Do you like to draw maps? Are you an ingenious inventor of imaginary worlds? Do you like prizes (that are directly related to...
I’m currently eyeballs-deep in the task of illustrating Under Wildwood, the second book in the series. It’ll have 85 illustrations, same as the first one. I’m about halfway done and...
from book two
Here’s my contribution to the “Posters for Events in St. Johns that Feature the St. Johns Bridge” genre. The St. Johns Bizarre is SO MUCH FUN. As is the St. Johns parade that happe...
Look what I got to leaf through at the central library in Portland. Did you know that the original printing of Little Fur Family was tiny and bound with rabbit fur? Margaret Wise Brown, you were suc...
Over and over and over again. Download audio file (02-Puts-Me-to-Work.mp3)
Over and over and over again.
There’s a ton of new fan art up at the Wildwood blog. I’m especially fond of this portrait of Curtis by an unnamed 4th grader at Mt. Erie Elementary in Anacortes, Washington.
I’m working, working, working away on the sketches for the sequel to Wildwood. I posted some more of them over here on the WW blog. Also, I have jumped upon the tumblr bandwagon. See?
I keep forgetting to post anything here, ever. Well, all that’s about to change! A few things: I had an illustration in The New Yorker a couple of weeks back which was a lifelong ambition of ...
Two things I learned today when I unearthed an ancient college sketchbook: 1. I thought my college art was bad but some of it was good and I was a better portrait artist then. 2. All my friends had g...
This beautiful drawing was a gift from my father-in-law. It’s by the late, elder Hank Meloy: Colin’s great-uncle, my son’s namesake, Raymond Pettibon of the 1940s.
Come on down and see the terrific work these kids have been making.
Watch this a hundred times and shed a tear for the great Janis Joplin.
Here I am modeling my first knitting project of the season. It’s my own pattern. Do you want to make it? Here’s how, roughly: CO 88 stitches (I used alpaca yarn and #6 needles) Using b...
junkyard graveyard Uh oh, mas on the roof again. We’ve been to The Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club show three years in a row. It’s only open to the public on weekends in November and ...
by London Scout People have been making and sending us Wildwood-inspired art and I just posted a heap of it over on the Wildwood blog. For what it’s worth, I find this kind of thing pretty mov...
The New York Times asked me to do an illustration for this Op-Ed piece by Ukrainian surrealist Andrey Kurkov and I was all, “You had me at Ukrainian surrealist.”
We had a couple of models at the museum today for our teen drawing workshop. They were great.
This was penned by Mac Barnett. See a more legible version at www.picturebook.co
Colin, Ursula, Le Guin, and Kim Stafford are all reading at this benefit for the Forest Park Conservancy on Wednesday. I’m projecting illustrations. Come by and support the FPC!
This painting was inspired by Habibi, Craig Thompson’s epic, new graphic novel. It’ll be shown, along with other Habibi-inspired art, at Floating World in Portland where they’re ho...
This is a cover I just did for YETI, a great magazine and music comp put out – by hook or by crook – by Mike McGonigal. Apparently this is what happens when I walk around downtown Boston...
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