Book Projects
Book: Regretland –By Adrienne Golday
My Job: To create the main character of the story, artwork for each chapter heading, and design the cover art.
The author, Adrienne Golday, and her husband spoke to me about the story. I had not yet been given the manuscript.
I was asked to create first, the leading character in the story, his name is Joe.
As you can see Joe is an average kind of guy. He wants to do the right thing. In the context of the story Joe goes on an elaborate journey which becomes a life review, that leads him through many interesting places.
I also needed to illustrate all the places Joe went to as separate chapter headings. See all my chapter art below.
I loved having the opportunity to work with both the author and her husband. It gave me two different perspectives and the third being my reading of the manuscript. It gave me a well rounded idea of what direction I needed to focus on to create the illustrations for the Regretland book.
Author: Adrienne Golday
Publisher: Golday House Books
Website: www.GoldayHouse.com
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Elizabeth Berg for the beautiful artwork
that she created for my most recent book entitled: REGRETLAND. Elizabeth's artwork
made every chapter come alive. Readers all over the world have expressed praise for the artwork in
the book. They enjoyed how she visually gave life to the main character, Joe!
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a talented artist.
REGRETLAND has won two National Awards in spirituality and self-help and I know it could not have been possible without the team effort and amazing talent of Elizabeth Berg! –Adrienne Golday, Golday House Books, www.GoldayHouse.com
Book: Sing-Along Spanish Coloring Book & Vocabulary Tunes CD –By Sue Paz
My Job: Create a book cover and images for the coloring book (one for each song).
Sue Paz, the author, and I had enjoyed working with her multi-media educational Spanish/English book project. She wrote all of the Spanish and English poetry and set it to familiar tunes.
Sue and I read through all of her material together. Sue would share her vision for the illustrations. I then sketched out ideas and presented them to her. We would revise the images, sometimes, for instance… taking a different visual vantage point.
Listening to the progress of the music helped to enhance the images and align them with the stories in the poem/songs.
It was a totally delightful project to be a part of. I think that the light heart we felt as we were putting it all together is visible and audible in the production of Sue’s multi-media educational Spanish/English book project.
The end result is a wonderful, educational Spanish/English musical coloring book and CD.
Author: Sue Paz
Publisher: Contact Sue Paz at susjpaz [at] gmail.com
Dear Elizabeth, Thanks again for everything. The Table of Contents, the Indians, and the dancing ladies are beautiful. The children will have happy dreams! –Sue Paz, Author, Spanish Sing-along Coloring Book and CD
Carmen was looking for illustrations with hand drawn frames for each of the chapters. Her pleasingly relaxed images in words made it easy to produce a vignette illustration to set the ‘flavor’ for each of the chapters. She knew exactly what she wanted, classic pen and ink drawings, fairly realistic. She and I wrote to each other to process the project from beginning to end.
I was particularly pleased with the cover when I finally received the finished product in the mail.
The author, Adrienne Golday, and her husband spoke to me about the story. I had not yet been given the manuscript. 
