a new website (finally)

I finally have a website up an running. it isn't complete but it's a start.

the url is: www.cambriaevans.com

(p.s. for right now, you have to type www. or it won't work.)

Illustrations that I did for Pistachio, an eco-friendly brand by Indigo Books and Music Inc. (a major Canadian book seller) are being featured on their website.
In addition to the Fairy Birthday Collection, I also did some baby/peapod illustrations for gifts and stationary and more fairy illustrations for a coloring book! Not sure if/when the products will be available for purchase online-- so if anyone in Canada has pictures of the store or products I would love to see them.

Washington Post Review of Bone Soup

Here is the newest review from the Washington Post!

"Familiarity with Stone Soup, the traditional tale of three hungry soldiers who trick an entire village into making soup for them from a pebble, isn't absolutely necessary to enjoy this deliciously shivery send-up . . . but it adds to the fun. The fright-inducing cover sports a greenish moon-shaped face, an eyeball floating in a spoon and the title spelled out in (what else?) bones. Inside, readers meet the rest of moon-faced Finnigin, whose stubby square teeth, squashy body and striped stockings resemble a ladybug gone haywire. Finnigin is looking for a feast. When the witch, mummy, beasts and zombies that he encounters claim they don't have anything for him, he resorts to trickery. The solution involves bat wings, spider eggs, toenail clippings, frog legs and other ghastly ingredients. The double-page spread of the pot filled to the brim with green goop is guaranteed to elicit groans. The illustrations, which borrow paneled layouts and speech balloons from the comics, are filled with tiny visual jokes. Kids will eat Bone Soup up."

I've been running around doing readings, signing and assemblies the past 2 weeks. Here is a picture and a link to a blog about the picture book exhibit at Springville Museum of art. I hope to post more pictures soon!

Halloween is Coming

The new Martha Stewart Crafts Halloween products are out, http://www.marthastewartcrafts.com . Some of the products created from Cambria's illustrations are the Owl Window Cling and the Glittered Chandelier Kit.

Bone Soup!

My second children's book, Bone Soup, (houghton mifflin-harcourt) is finally in stores!
I have a list of confirmed book events at booktour.com
and click here for a press release

Bone Soup is in stores!

J.Bartyn design featured in Modern Bride

Here is a wedding stationary design I did for a new company,
J.Bartyn Design + Manufacturing, named after my grandfather.
It was featured on page 404 of the August/September issue of
Modern Bride in an article "100 things we love." I'm putting
together a website and will have other designs up soon.

Kirkus Review of Bone Soup!

I got my first review and its a good one!

"Finnigin the monster is something of an itinerant Eater, carrying his eating stool, spoon and, of course, “gigantic eating mouth” with him wherever he goes. When he happens upon a village populated by witches, ghouls and mummies, he finds his reputation precedes him, and the bogeys have stashed their yummies away. Finnigin’s a canny Eater, though, and he makes a show of whipping up a batch of bone soup, with results anyone familiar with the traditional tale of “Stone Soup” will recognize. Evans’s smiling, round-headed ghasts will terrify no one; the black-and-bile palette provides all the Halloween atmosphere young readers could desire." (Picture book. 4-8)

plus, the book is now available for pre-order on amazon.com

Happy Friday the 13th!

Okay it's time to resurrect this thing from the dead. We've had a bunch of projects going to the point that we were out of town for two months, and there was NYC comicon, and we were regularly working til 4am. Ok, enough excuses.

Since it's Friday the 13th I have to post a monster. This a creature I painted for the book, Drawing and Painting the Undead. It fits the theme of bringing things back from the dead.