Cheese and Pickle

Picture Book project: Full-spread illustration, character development, cover designs, and sketches for Cheese and Pickle Go to the Gallery. Cheese joins her friend Pickle on a trip to an art museum where they draw portraits of each other. While Pickle is confident and versed in the world of art, Cheese is hesitant and unsure. *For inquiries about the manuscript, please contact Zöe Tucker.

Watercolors, traditional gouache, and colored pencils on Mixed Media paper.

Full-spread illustration of Cheese & Pickle in the abstract section of the art gallery. Cheese does not understand the abstract art. Pickle explains that it is meant to make the viewer feel something. Cheese examines a piece but feels wibbly.
Character development. Cheese with her backpack, socks, crayons, & glasses.  Pickle with his art smock, palette, beret, brushes, and snazzy loafers.
Illustrations of Cheese & Pickle in various poses, including eating chips, painting and drawing, sitting on a bench talking in hushed tones, Pickle concerned over a wibbly Cheese, and each showing their artwork.
Illustrations of Cheese & Pickle expressing the following emotions: anger, joy, sadness, surprise, and worry.
Illustrations of Cheese & Pickle in the following additional poses: running and swimming in a giant jar of pickle juice. Hand-lettering of "Cheese" in a Swiss cheese style and "Pickle" in green serif font.
Two cover designs for Cheese and Pickle Go to the Gallery. First shows Cheese & Pickle mimicking the farmer & his wife in American Gothic in front of an art gallery shaped like ice cream. Second shows Cheese & Pickle walking inside the art gallery.
Character development sketches of Cheese & Pickle expressing many different emotions in graphite pencil.