John Abbott Nez / About Me: I should have known I'd become an artist when I won that TV art contest as a 9 year old. The grand prize was a remote controlled Tyrannosaur that rolled around the room shooting rubber darts. That's been hard to top... but I keep trying. I've illustrated over 80 books, books of every conceivable sort. I'm now also writing and illustrating my own stories, which is fun.   I draw mostly in a whimsical style with the goal of conveying lots of feeling in my pictures... happy, sad, sneaky, mad, hopeful, afraid... whatever. I'd guess that's about the main point of any illustration. Primarily I work in traditional mediums of acrylics, watercolors, pencils and inks. But almost every drawing is first processed in the computer. There's lots more information about how I work on 'the Studio' link in the 'step by step' demonstrations if you're really curious. I also work in the digital mediums of Photoshop and Illustrator, which greatly expand the illustrator's toolbox. The combination of traditional and digital mediums allows for amazing new possiblities... and lots of fun.   I have a degree in English and also studied illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City with Maurice Sendak, among other wonderful teachers. I've done many book projects with Mercer Mayer and Rosemary Wells, as a ghost illustrator. I live in Seattle, where I enjoy the natural wonders of the Northwest with my wife and two children. Clients Include: G. P. Putnam Albert Whitman Holiday House Dutton Children's Books Usborne Ladybug Magazine Hyperion G. P. Putnam Price Stern Sloan Golden Books Random House Scholastic Highlights for Children Silver, Burdett & Ginn Jim Henson Associates Mercer Mayer The Wright Group Time-Life D.C. Heath Holt Humpty Dumpty Grolier Kane Press Atheneum Child Magazine Atlantic Records McClanahan & Co. Marvel Books 321 Contact Magazine Grosset & Dunlap Seventeen Magazine New York Times World Book Marvel Family Entertainment Travelers Insurance Bill Smith Studio Pearson MacMillan Sesame Street Magazine Pinwheel CTW Book Illustration: Cromwell Dixon's Sky Cycle ~ written & illustrated by John Nez One Smart Cookie ~ written & illustrated by John Nez The Grandma Cure The Dragon Painter Pet Peeves! My Cherry Tree ~ written & illustrated by John Nez No Money? No Problem! Bubble Trouble The Creeping Tide Easter Surprise Tightwad Tod Gotcha! Tabby Tiger Taxi Driver ABC God's Noisy Alphabet Friendship Hotlinks My Own Pages / Journal 2000 Mother Goose Rhymes The Three Little Pigs Little Plumpkins Hide & Peek Look For Boats The Gingerbread Man Goldilocks & the Three Bears Cars & Trucks, Airplanes & Things That Fly Tabby Tiger's Treasure Rock a Bye Bible The Itsy Bitsy Spider The Super Smile Shop Mr. Bitter's Butter A Merry Muppet Christmas  Henry & Teresa's Race That's A Fact!, That's A Fact, Too! A Word of Two With You, Eve Merriam School & Me Frog's Snowy Day My First Book of the Planets Ghost illustration for Rosemary Wells: Doris's Dinosaur The Secret Valentine The Secret Birthday Ghost illustration for Mercer Mayer : My Big Sister What A Bad Dream Where is Frog? Hansel & Gretel Little Red Riding Hood Just A Thunderstorm, Just Me & My Bicycle The Loose Tooth I Said I Was Sorry Just a Magic Trick Just A Pirate Just Too Little Albert Whitman, Dutton Books, Kane Press, Alladin, Random House, Golden Books, Marvel Books, Hyperion, Atheneum, Holt Reinhart & Winston, Grosset & Dunlap, Jim Henson Associates, Barrons, The Wright Group, Checkerboard Press, Highlights for Children, Simon & Schuster, Pinwheel, Hyperion,Green Frog Publishers, GoodTimes Publishing To Top of Page