Fiesta Farm And Trail Rides

As many of you already know we took on the task of drawing the illustrations for a children’s book one of my collectors wrote. Hannah came up with this beautiful lay out and sketches for the way each page is going to look. Then we went over to a good friend of ours who have the perfect little boy to use as the model for the boy in the book. We live on a cow and goat ranch so we have all the cows and goats to take pictures of all day all night. Down the road was a horse we stopped by to see but we needed more.

When we started looking at our pictures we found nothing was right and we started to think we should be taking more pictures and studying more about every animal we are using in the book. (you folks do know its about a boy on a farm right?). Then the best idea we have had since the beginning of this book, a petting zoo. How could we have overlooked this one?

So with a little help from Google, since I haven’t heard a word about MC Hammer’s search engine, Hannah found Fiesta Farm and we set sail to get the rest of the animals.

We showed up and the lady in charge tells us she was getting all prepared for all the kids to get outta such a big van, sorry but it was only us two. I was really surprised to see a llama just walking around but the little girl grew on me. I focused on the younger animals since I wanted them to be about the age the kids reading the book would be, about 2nd graders I hear, but art lovers of every age will be able to enjoy it as an art piece too. We spent about two hours going from space to space taking 100’s of pictures of pigs, chickens, horses and bunnies. Then we sat around making sure we got the shots we needed then we took even more pictures. We might have just gotten the whole thing done, wont be able to tell till we set them up after our last show for the year.

Ok well this book is on its way, can’t wait to see this sucker done. It has been put on the back burner all this leg of the tour, 4 months is a long time to be waiting to work on something. But its on now, so stay tuned!