Traci Van Wagoner

A showing of the art I created during #SCBWIArtober2025 for fun and relaxation and exploration of new Procreate brushes by Kyle Webster.

Get a behind the scenes look at the beginnings of an idea for a picture book inspired by nature in the city. I was delighted to wake one morning to the noisy going-ons of a mourning dove couple setting up home in my top floor window in the back of the building. Over the first summer of the pandemic I was privileged to watch the development of two families from the same couple and was inspired to write a story about it and how it effected my life and brought a new sense of won

Another picture book creation journey begins where a pair of mourning doves nest in my window, and I pose a question: bars or no bars on the windows?

IT’S OFFICIAL!!! Many of you have watched and waited and shared in the journey from initial text dummy to final book for Boomer the...

When the pandemic started, art directors and editors were not long in their offices to received illustrator's promotional postcards, so...