How to use this Page

Barbara Johanson Newman was featured on …. Click Here to View.

Sarah Dillard was featured on August 19th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Roger Roth was featured on July 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Kirstie Edmunds was featured on August 4th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Vin Vogel was featured on November 10th.  Click Here to View.

Brian Bowes Ichabod’s Ride Home. He was featured on May 12th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Lisa Achin was featured on October 27th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

This is from a new collection of black and white work that Leeza Hernandez created for a gallery show in September. It’s Oliver Twist! The title of this piece is “Please, Sir …” Leeza was featrued on June 30th 2012. Click Here to View.

Jill Dubin featured on August 25th, 2012.   Click Here to View.

Nancy Armo featured on April 28th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Kathleen Kemly was featured on April 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Tim Bowers was featured on July 28th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Ruth Sanderson was featured on March 17th, 2012.   This painting was from a two-day painting workshop Ruth taught on August 10th and 11th at the Norman Rockwell Museum.  Click Here to View.

Kevin O’Malley was featured on April 21st, 2012.  Click Her to View.

Kris Aro McLeod was featured on February 11, 2012. Click here to view.

Sandra Salsbury was featured on March 24th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Betsy Snyder featured on …. art from a baby collection I did for Papyrus (inspired by her book HAIKU BABY. Click Here to View.

Melissa Iwai featured on  October 13th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Gabrielle Grimard was featured on October 20th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Juana Martinez-Neal was featured on December 8th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Roberta Baird was featured on January 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Courtney Martin featured on January 14, 2012. Click Here to view.

Nancy Cote was featured on June 2nd, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Michele Noiset was featured on September 22nd, 2012 …  Click Here to View.

Joanne Friar’s Christmas card for this year. She was featured on March 10th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Louis Bergeron was featured on May 26th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Josée Bisaillon was featured on September 15th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Roberta Angaramo featured on February 18th, 2012.   Click Here to View.

Kelly Kennedy was featured on February 25th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Kathi Ember was featured on October 6th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Cheryl Kirk Noll was featured on September 29th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Lauren Gallegos was featured on November 3rd, 2012. Click Here to View.

Jennifer Grey Olsen was featured on November 24th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Casey Girard was featured on February 4th. Click Here to View.

Barbara DiLorenza was featured on April 14th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Hazel Mitchell featured on February 19th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Anne Belov was featured on June 23, 2012. Click Here to view.

Robbie Gilbert was featured on August 11th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Elizabeth Stanton featured on May 19th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Susan Drawbridge was featured on May 5th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Sarah Brannen was featured on July 21st, 2012. Click Here View.

Alik Arzoumanian was featured on June 16th, 2012. Click here to View.

Sara Jane Franklin was featured on November 17th, 2012. Click Here to View.

Wendy Grieb was featured on January 28th, 2012. Click Here to View. Above and below two sculpture Wendy did of two of the characters in her books.

Jon Strommel was featured on September 8th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

This week we have author/illustrator Roger Roth with us.  He comes from a creative family, where his great uncle painted sets for the New York theater at the turn of the century, his mother went to art school (she later became an elementary school teacher) and his dad was a writer. He’s been interested in art since he was young, and actually, by 1st grade kids were paying him to draw their portraits!  When he was 15, his parents sent him to Saturday art classes at the Philadelphia College of Art (now called University of the Arts) and he studied under Milton Feldman.  Roger says this was very important to his development as an artist and when he published his first children’s book (The Giraffe That Walked to Paris), he dedicated it to him.

When he is not working on a children’s book, visiting a school, or doing an editorial illustration, you can find him at the University of the Arts, where he is a senior lecturer in the illustration department.

His wife Darlene, is a writer and editor, and they worked together on Star of the Week. It’s a story about a girl who resembles their wonderful daughter, Eden and inspired by her story. Roger, Darlene, Eden, and their dogs, Dobo and Drizzle live outside of Philadelphia.

Roger graduated from Pratt University in 1980, with a degree in fine art and has been a working artist ever since.  He’s done everything from painting murals in restaurants to illustrating a column in the New York Times (He did that for 4 years). He’s been illustrating children’s books since 1982.

He has written and illustrated two children’s books, both came from real life experiences. He used to work as a sign painter, and the man who owned the company, Clarence, was the inspiration for The Sign Painter’s Dream. He loves to go ice fishing with his friends, Chris, Ed and Rick, so that theme turned up in Fishing for Methuselah.

His editorial work has appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Barron’s and he has also done a lot of work for advertising agencies.

Over the years, his work has drawn a lot of positive attention. His editorial work has been selected for the Best of Newspaper Design Annual, the International Graphic Annual of Advertising and Editorial Graphics