Spider Magazine

Digital collage illustration for Spider Magazine.

Layers and layers of textures come together in a 

moody night scene.

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CITY TIGER

by B. J. Lee

 

Stray cat, stray cat, eyes so bright

slinks along through darkest night.

Asphalt jungle's fearless stalker,

chain-link fence and rooftop walker,

you don't want us coming near.

Your tiger eyes have made that clear.

Fireflies

Digital collage illustration for

Storyworks Magazine ... 

lots and lots of fireflies!

Storyworks magazine

In Scholastic's Storyworks magazine

my illustration for this powerfully evocative poem 

Early Explorers

by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Susan Swan

No place on earth

                is ever undiscovered

Even in Antarctica

                where whole mountains are hidden

                                under ice

penguins already laid shambling tracks

                                in the snow

                before we traveled there

The hottest desert

                                the deepest jungle

                where none of us have ever been

all have been crossed

                                and crossed again

                by wings whirring or silent

                                feet furred or scaled

                                                hoofed or bare

By adventurers we will never know

                explorers who will never tell us

                                what wonders they have seen

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