"Paper Monsters and Curious Creatures" in progress

My next new book "Paper Monsters and Curious Creatures" is moving along. Today I received the first laser print out. I am going to go through this page by page for the next few days and make necessary corrections. This book will come out some time in the fall of 2014. As a teaser, below are Just a couple of pages from the book in progress. Love the backgrounds of these 2 projects!

Paper Birds photo shoot

This week I drove down to Asheville, NC for a photo shoot of my upcoming papercraft book, "Paper Birds". I spent 3 days in my publisher Lark Books' studio working as a stylist with the designer Shannon Yokeley and their photographer Steve Mann. We photographed 40 paper birds including baby owls and baby penguins. Shannon is such a perfectionist. She doesn't get satisfied until she gets near perfect shots. I admire that. Thanks to her, the photographs turned out really nice. My birds looked much better than I had imagined. Below are snapshots of the photo session.

Here is Shannon teaching a trick to multicolored Canaries on a stick.

Here is Steve in a staring contest with a Pelican.

A happy family of Horned Owls on the computer screen.

This book is scheduled to hit the book stores in June 2014. Just like my previous books, it will have templates to copy and cut, and step-by-step instructions. I will update on the book's progress in my later posts.