About "My Dog Carmel"

In spring of 1992 I was taking a semester-long desktop-publishing class at Cabrillo College, and a two-weekend class on children's picture books at UCSC Extension, and I did "My Dog Carmel" as a project for both. The "Sam" dedicated to above is my older son, who despite being 3½ at the time, is now 20 -- funny how that works!

I did the drawings first in pencil and then with a felt-tip pen, scanned them in with a little black and white hand-scanner, laid the book out in PageMaker, printed the pages on my laser printer, and then took them to Kinkos to be copied, folded, stapled, and trimmed, with a cardstock cover. I don't remember how many copies I had printed -- ten? twelve? -- but afterward I colored each one individually in crayon.

You can also see some photographs of Carmel and family & friends by clicking the thumbnail images to the right.