It's always exciting to see The Tapestry translated into another language and to see foreign editions with alternate covers. Most recently, The Tapestry's first book was translated into French where the series is called "The Golden Tapestry" and the first volume is titled "Rowan Academy" Here's a peek at the cover, which I think is very lovely. The only question I have is why Max is holding a broomstick or wand type of object. Neither appears in the book and lord knows I don't need any more Harry Potter comparisons! :)

Now, I just need to dust off my French and dive right in....

Working in pen and ink requires a commitment - after all, there's no erasing a mistake on the final art and it's always been important to me that I have a finished piece of art (as opposed to simply a computer file). It's truly a headache to have to start all over due to a silly mistake or not having thought through my composition and thus I spend some time working out the larger illustrations before diving right in.

This is a good example of how I might work - a combination of sketching, manipulating my own drawings to create something like this palanquin, and using objects such as the chairs and rug to help give me the sense of of how to balance the room. While I'm sure there are Photoshop gurus who use things like perspective grids, I'm hardly a guru and thus I do much of the per [...]
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Any artist (or writer) loves to create new characters and creatures. In my case, the same goes for new buildings and settings. In my humble opinion, a setting is a character and can play an instrumental role in shaping the mood and tone of a story.

There are many new sights and settings in The Tapestry's upcoming fourth book, The Maelstrom. We experience some on Max's travels, but there are many changes taking place at Rowan itself. With the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees and construction taking place [...]
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