Faqs

To answer your excellent question, while real caterpillars don’t have noses, my caterpillar, who eats cherry pie and lollipops, is not one you would find in field guides. And while I think of it [...]

A number of years ago, I decided to take a two year “sabbatical” from making picture books. During this time away, I created abstract art out of my painted tissue papers. I also used other [...]

Some of you may have noticed that the colors in my book, Mister Seahorse, seem brighter and textured in a way that looks different from my other books. When I was creating Mister Seahorse I [...]

Have you ever noticed the raised letters on a business card or stationery? The same method is used to create the spider web in The Very Busy Spider. It’s called thermography and this is how it [...]

That’s a good question. Here’s the scientific explanation: In most cases a butterfly does come from a chrysalis, but not all. There’s a rare genus called Parnassian, that pupates in a cocoon. [...]

Yes! I have become aware that many of you speak two languages, one at home and another at school. I also speak two languages, English and German. I was born in Syracuse, New York and I spoke [...]

Yes. But there are many kinds of artists. At one end of the spectrum are commercial artists, people such as advertising artists or graphic designers, who have a client to work for, a product to [...]

I had no intentions of growing a beard. But this is how it happened anyway. In the early 1970’s I bought land in the northwest corner of Massachusetts. In order to get a better view of the [...]

Not only did I scribble when I was a child, but I still do! As far back as I can remember I enjoyed drawing pictures and I knew then that I would always draw. When I had grown to the age when [...]

In retrospect it appears that the action of these individuals had been orchestrated by a higher force to form my creative development and I consider them all to be my “door openers” MY FATHER, [...]