Sept SFC - Tall Boots - Painted

Here is the painted version of "Tall Boots" for the Sept Issue of SFC. I'm actually pretty happy with it.

Darcy McGovern

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Bella Sinclair Blogger award

My talented friend Ann Marie has just honored me by awarding me, along with two of my fantastic illustrator friends ( Gina, Jenn D ) this wonderful award! Thank you so much Ann Marie!!

You can read about the history of this award here on Ces's blog. It was created by Ces in honor of her friend, Bella Sinclair, who tragically and suddenly lost her husband. Here is what Ces says about the award:

I designed this award to celebrate art in the blogs and to honor the value of friendship, sisterhood, sharing and caring. It is to be awarded to the gifted, accomplished, eloquent and talented blogger whose friendship and influence inspire us to do our best. That I named it after Bella Sinclair is because she epitomizes all of these things. She is an inspiration to many of us.

I would like to pass this award on. I decided to choose these three talented and wonderful bloggers because they inspire me:

Ginger Nielsen

Linda T. Synder Ward

Nikki Shoemaker

SFC September Sketch

We're back from vacation which was wonderful. We had a great time visiting with family, friends, and seeing all sorts of iconic tourist sites! Unfortunately, on our way home from picking up our dog from the boarder we were in a pretty nasty car accident. A woman coming from the other direction tried to make an unsafe pass decided better of it and lost control of her car ultimately, crossing the center line and crashing into us. Fun! I broke my foot in three places and am on crutches, which makes for lots of couch time. So, hopefully my drawing will benefit from this! :)

Anyway, here is a sketch for the September issue of Stories for Children. It's a really cute story, and I hope the drawing does it justice.