It's time I posted about someone whom I have known all of his life....and that is my brother, author, and children's book illustrator, Troy Howell. Troy is a modest man, handsome...he really wanted to be an actor...but life chose him to be an artist. So, he pursed his career at the young age of 17, when he became an illustrator for the magazine 'Cricket' for children. From there on, he moved from Southern California where he was born and raised, and he moved to Virginia to be on the eastern seaboard to be closer to New York City where he was able to find an agent to promote his artist career.
Without much further ado he can be found at his site:
www.troyhowellstudio.com
When you arrive at his site please click on 'blog' and it will take you to his Penchant page. On the right hand sidebar under his heading of: 'Pages' is his 'trunk sale'. Click on the 'truck sale' and it will show you various pieces of original artwork he has for sale at the moment. He has also just recently written a children's book published by Amulet Books. The title of the book is: 'The Dragon of Cripple Creek'. There is a wealth of MORE information about Troy's book on his 'Penchant' page under the list on the right side bar titled: 'Pages' Scroll down to the heading 'the dragon of cripple creek' and click on that older post. On that post Troy talks of how he developed his characters for the book, the 'voice' he choose for the main character, pre-publishing sketches of his characters including ideas for the cover of his book.
I am adding a photo of one of his pieces of artwork which is available in his 'trunk sale' and a contrasting photograph of a tree in Africa, which I thought looked like a woman. Please enjoy Troy's website.
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| I thought this photo was strikingly similar to Troy's 'Daphne' in his above illustration of 'Apollo and Daphne' published in 'Favorite Greek Myths' by Scholastic Press 1989. (Which is available at Amazon books.com). The original illustration is available in Troy's 'trunk sale' for $850, along with many other original pieces of his artwork, including a couple of original illustrations from the 'Redwall' series of books by author Brian Jacques of England, which, sadly this last spring, Brian passed away. Enjoy!~ |
