The F Pages? Finished!

But...I fudged them a bit.  I re-used some old artwork of mine for these two pages of the ABC Book I'm currently working on for my grandchildren (I'm trying to meet a self-imposed early June deadline, after all!).  The family portrait on the first F page is actually an illustration from a children's book idea I submitted to Dodd, Mead, & Co. back in the early 80's.  It was about a little girl who eats so many chocolate chip cookies that she actually turns into one (it was semi-autobiographical), and then when she begins to eat healthier, she turns back into a "real girl."  Kind of like Pinocchio.

Dodd, Mead, & Co. wasn't interested in publishing my magnus opus, but I hung onto those drawings anyway.  I thought the last illustration (the one planned for the happy ending of that book) could be put to good use here in the F pages of this book--which won't be required to pass the editorial test of any publisher, because I'm going to publish it myself.

For the second F page, I re-purposed an image I painted on the walls of my sons' Catholic elementary school back in the mid-to-late-90's, as part of a mural with the theme "The Faces of God's Children."  I know the style is quite different from the softer colored pencil drawings I've been doing for this book, but I hope it works.

I'm making headway now, but I'm skipping a few letters and going right to the P's and S's.  More to come soon!