Highlights High Five 2014 Pewter Plate Award

What a nice way to start the week. I just found a package on our front porch that contained a Highlights High Five 2014 Pewter Plate Illustration of the Year Award!  Thank you very much to both Highlights and editor Kathleen Hayes!

Danger!

"When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout." - Laurence J. Peter

#LoveWins!

In a landmark opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, handing gay rights advocates their biggest victory yet. Today is a good day.

... or Something Like That

Son Marc and his good buddy Travis are working together on an awesome and gigantically ambitious project. And guess what? YOU CAN HELP! Watch this video and then click this magic link - http://tinyurl.com/q529x4g

Small

"They weren't true stories; they were better than that." - Alice Hoffman

"Garden as though you will live forever." - William Kent

"I never could have thought of it,To have a little bug all lit
And made to go on wings." - Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Road Trip

Son of Airborne

Airborne

Patrick's Tips for Drawing

1. If you're drawing something difficult, stick your tongue out just a little bit and it won't be as hard.

2. Make small noises when you are drawing textures or cross hatching. "Pew pew pew."

3. If you add an antenna to anything it will become the space version of that thing.