Stretch your imagination.

Stretch your imagination.

Here’s a Tuesday coloring page that was a sketch for the book Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood. Help our creative heroine Mira, color the town. Did you notice in my drawing  Mira stretches as she is painting what she sees in her...
Maybe Something Beautiful: Coloring Page

Maybe Something Beautiful: Coloring Page

Today’s coloring page is from the book Maybe Something Beautiful written by two incredible authors Isabel Campoy and Theresa Schnapp Howell. What can a splash of color do in a city of grey? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine!...

Day Four: Dream in Color

It’s Day Four and time for a Coloring Adventure. Here is a cover that didn’t fly for the book Drum Dream Girl written with poetry and rhythm by my good friend Margarita Engle. Now it’s your turn to make it fly. Green means GO! Have some fun and let...
Maybe Something Beautiful on the road.

Maybe Something Beautiful on the road.

  Just back from a remarkable week in Pittsburg, CA creating a community mural with children, parents, teachers and volunteers. Sharing the before/after photos of the project with thanks to everyone who made it possible. A huge shout out to librarian Ginny Golden...