A woman with long dark hair smiling in a vibrant flower garden, wearing colorful bohemian clothing and hoop earrings, surrounded by marigolds and other blooming flowers, exuding joy and natural beauty.

Guest Artist: Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Colorful children's book cover featuring a face with glasses made of decorative buttons, butterfly, and the title "My Traveling Eye" in playful font.
Colorful children's book cover featuring a face with glasses made of decorative buttons, butterfly, and the title "My Traveling Eye" in playful font.
Colorful children's books about diversity, family, and imagination displayed on a wooden surface, emphasizing educational and inclusive stories.
Colorful children's books about diversity, family, and imagination displayed on a wooden surface, emphasizing educational and inclusive stories.
Colorful children's book cover illustration featuring a father and daughter reading together outdoors with paper airplanes flying in a whimsical sky.
Colorful children's book cover illustration featuring a father and daughter reading together outdoors with paper airplanes flying in a whimsical sky.
Like you like me children's book cover illustration featuring two smiling children facing each other with vibrant backgrounds and paper plane illustrations.
Like you like me children's book cover illustration featuring two smiling children facing each other with vibrant backgrounds and paper plane illustrations.
Butterfly sitting on a large, colorful tree branch with hanging decorations, surrounded by lush green foliage, creating a whimsical and artistic scene.
Butterfly sitting on a large, colorful tree branch with hanging decorations, surrounded by lush green foliage, creating a whimsical and artistic scene.

My name is Jenny Sue, and I am an author-illustrator.

Students often ask what I like to do when I’m not in my studio. We live on a little homestead in the mountains with dairy goats, chickens, ducks, and a big vegetable and flower garden and greenhouses. I LOVE taking care of our animals and gardening with my family! I homeschool with my kids, and we are often creating, reading, and going on adventures.

While I love the rural life and chasing my chickens around, I am a wanderer at heart and am always daydreaming up plans for camping or road-trips, or dreaming of longer adventures to Mexico, Europe, South America, Nepal, India and more.

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Learn how to tell original compelling stories with your art for a broad variety of visual arts industries.

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Carlotta Notaro | Illustrator + Animator

Lisk Feng | Illustrator + Children’s Book Author

Matt Rota | Editorial + Publishing Illustrator

Tony Rodriguez | Illustrator + Filmmaker

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