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Latest work and announcements!

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So excited to announce that my book "Babysitter Blues" published by One Voice Press is now available at Barnes and Noble.com. Click here to  order  it!: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/babysitter-blues-leona-hosack/1120693411?ean=9780989115261 Here's a caricature I did recently for a recipient of a gift certificate given out when I did caricatures at the  Franklin County Fair in Greenfield, Mass two years ago! It is soon to be posted as a sample in my Etsy shop.   "Let's Be Friends" an illustration I worked on recently just for practice. A new piece for my portfolio! Happy Drawing!

I Love Drawing Diversity!!

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I've been going through my files of old work, drawings and sketches, and have found some of my illustrations that I haven't looked at in a while. Quite a number of years ago, I happened to have been asked to illustrate a few stories for New Millenium Press a small Baha'i Publisher out of Macau. I did the illustrations and sent them, and at the time the person I was in contact with through email, somehow disappeared and I lost contact with them. So I never found out if they actually got published.  This is a portrait of George Washington Carver and sketches and a sketch of him in the field with farmers for a story about him.  A portrait of George Washington Carver in ink and watercolor! A preliminary sketch for the pictur above.  The next four pictures below are about how children should be kind to animals, a story or section of a book based on a quote by Abdu'l-Baha.  These last two pictures were for a story about Baha'u'llah, although