MidSouth SCBWI Creating Your Best Dummy Workshop

View of the lake at Pickwick State Park. Photo courtesy of Teresa Robeson. 

A few weeks ago, I went to an amazing illustration conference at Pickwick State Park in Tennessee. It was the culmination of the MidSouth SCBWI Creating Your Best Dummy Workshop, a six-month program where 16 illustrators revised a picture book manuscript and created a dummy and illustrations.

Goodbye, Butterfly Dreams and Hello Good Stuff

© Sylvia Liu

I haven't done this in awhile, but here are some things I'm grateful for today:

• I painted "Butterfly Dreams" last year and I've been enjoying it in my home since then. I showed it in an art show in May, and I just sold it today to a teacher at my kids' school. So I'm glad someone else gets to enjoy it, but I'll miss it.