LATEST NEWS
- OCT. 2025: A STORM OF HORSES at the MAZZA MUSEUM
Much of my artwork from A STORM OF HORSES, my biography of French artist Rosa Bonheur is on... - SEPT. 2025: A New Venture…
So….I have started a Substack publication titled FAIRY TALES: Mirrors of Truth, which will ma... - THE MIRROR OF TRUTH
JULY 15, 2025 I'm currently crafting query letters to agents for my first YA fantasy, THE MI...
Spring 2023 News!
Watch City Steampunk Festival — May 13, 2023 I have not been a vendor at any outdoor events/festivals for many years. However, I had a great time last May at the Steampunk Festival in Waltham, MA. and…
Grayscale Fantasy Coloring Book
Grayscale Fantasy contains 36 images from my fantasy and fairytale art in both lighter and darker grayscale. Here are a few sample images:
February 2023 Print Sale
My new horse print “A Mother’s Love” is on sale for the month of February. This is an open edition signed print on 17×22 Premium Matt paper. Regular price is $75. Sale price is $60.
Free Coloring Pages
Many of these free coloring page downloads go along with my YouTube colored pencil tutorials. Click on the image to download, or click the “Download” under an image and the file will go to your computer downloads…
CREATING A STORM OF HORSES COVER ILLUSTRATION
On the table above on the left are all the different pictures I used as reference when composing this illustration, which is one of the double-page illustrations in the story as well as a wrap-around cover. In…
THE GOLDEN WOOD – FROM SKETCH TO FINISH
Here are the steps for creating a painting from The Twelve Dancing Princesses Here is my “thumbnail” sketch from the storyboard -about 2×4 inches It took me three days to photograph the models for this book. For…
FALL FAERIE – FROM SKETCH TO FINISH
Here are my first two “idea” sketches for a painting depicting a “spirit of Fall” as a fairy. A daughter of a friend of mine posed for the fairy and I took photos for reference. Next I…
A Storm of Horses
A Storm of Horses is my first picture book biography for children, about a woman artist who loved to draw and paint horses, just like I do. Only she lived 200 years ago! DESCRIPTION, from the publisher:…
Golden Dreams
GOLDEN DREAMS is a 224 page full color retrospective of the career of illustrator Ruth Sanderson. Known for her lavishly illustrated fairy tale picture books, including THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, CINDERELLA, and THE SNOW PRINCESS, this volume…