I've separated my illustrations and fine art landscapes into two separate blogs. Make sure and see the other one: Julie Leiman Weaver Illustrations to see my Children's Book work.

Please make sure to look for Kiddiechronicles.com, a great new reading website from one of my authors! This site is a lot of fun. with some really interesting stories for kids!

Hi everyone. All kinds of new projects going on. Come see me and other local artists paint the town this weekend in Bradenton at the annual "Paint the Town" event and exhibition (two of my paintings will be on display at the ArtCenter Manatee, 209 Ninth Street West in Bradenton, FL April 14-May 6. Also many new books in the works. My beautiful daughter's, beautiful charitable book, "Jewish Memoirs" is in the process of being printed as we speak. I've also just finished my own two books, "Carmen and the Dying Daisy", a book about living and dying for children, and "The Spider in the Hat", a poem book asking, "Does the hat make the man or does the man wear the hat?" I'm having so much fun!

I will be participating in the SPRAA Plein Air paintout at the Manatee Artcenter during the second week of April. See you all there!!

New Books All the Time!!! I just illustrated a beautiful book, "What Do You Do When I Go to Bed?" by Adrianne Robinson soon to be published!

Wonderful News: Pickles' Prickly Problem by Susan and Kaitlyn Merendino is out! Also, Paul Beach's Chasing The Sun now available in hardcover!!! Wonderfull books I had the pleasure of illustrating!

Claudia Cerulli's beautiful new book, Filastrocche Italiane Volume 2 - Italian Nursery Rhymes Volume 2 (Italian Edition) is out on Amazon! What a great book!!

Chasing The Sun, by Paul Beach, illustrated by me, is coming out in Hardcover as we speak. What a beautiful book.

Hi everyone. Just want to mention I have illustrated two new fabulous books coming out very soon: Pickle's Prickly Problem by Susan and Kaitlyn Merendino, and Jennifer Magicum, The Vanishing Cat by Maria Andrade. Look for these online soon!

Hi there! Newest book, still don't know who's going to publish it but the proceeds will go to clean up the BP Oil Mess and save the seabirds. "If I Could Speak".

Ness, The Featherless Cockatoo by Alyssa Rudinsky, Illustrated my myself, just came out on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. B & N is donating some of the proceeds to the Humane Society of Broward County where Oscar, the real featherless cockatoo lives. I'm also posting some of my newest projects, Steven Feldman's "Dinner in Maine" and Jared Shoji Ikeda's "The Boy Who Loved Baseball" Also, Claudia Cerulli's "Italian Fun" And my newest book, "Airavata in the Garden - an Indian Tale" .

I'm working on a terrific new book, "Chasing the Sun" by Paul Beach about seeking out answers and the exhuberance of youth. Great creative author. I can't wait to see it in print!

Well, I just finished two more children's books. One for Alyssa Rudinsky called, "Ness The Underdressed Cockatoo" and an Italian Nursery Rhyme Book Called Italian Fun by Claudia Cerulli. Both are so much FUN!

Hi everybody. I'm posting more illustration work, here on my blog. I've been drawing up a storm lately and have several new books for different authors in the works, each one exciting in it's own way. Stay tuned!

Well, I've obviously been too busy to write posts lately. I've actually been writing children's books and illustrating other author's books. "Lift" by Robin Gordon, is on it's way to see if some lucky publisher chooses to publish it. It's so beautifully written and I love the way the illustrations came out! Also, The Adventures of Persey the Pig is out on Amazon this Week. I just sent out my daughter Cailey's Book, Tick Tock; The Sixty Second Break to a few publishers. It's hysterically funny and written with a really young, fresh voice, illlustrated by me in a funky way. I can't show you the unpublished ones from other authors yet because they're not mine to show before they're out but I also have two books currently making the publishing/agent circuit: Winter, and Why Are We Here. So, lots of work, not a lot of posts. Oh Well, you can't have everything!

Well of coarse there is a REASON you haven't heard from me in several months! I've been illustrating a wonderful new children's book for Robin Gordon which, sorry, as it is unpublished, you cannot see it yet. I have also been working on a book about my own sweet dachshund dogs which I have uploaded her for you to see. Will be getting back outside as soon as it's a little cooler though. Check out the puppy picks!

OK, so I do get outside some of the time.

COLD

Ok so its practically the end of February and I haven't painted outside at all. That would be because I am freezing here, yes in Florida. But the seminar I'm taking is coming up in about a month so hopefully it will WARM UP! Anyway, will post more winter scenes.