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Why the two dots over the letter 'i' in the name?

There's one for the birth of each daughter. 

It's also a 'ditto' mark – a signal to my bride.

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If you have 15 minutes to kill, the video above is a portfolio, in a way, of earlier work. If you don't have 15 minutes to kill, I don't blame you.

  • The Steve Stinson
    Studio – Books & Art     - Boo


Thanks for dropping by. Yours truly is the author and illustrator of many books for children, two non-fiction books for adults, and a couple of novels.

The Stinson Art Studio also produces videos, portraits, paintings, and commercial art from my lovely, albeit overstuffed, studio in Southwest Virginia. It's actually just a room.

I've also specialized in large format art for pediatric hospitals.  These conjure up magical worlds where anything goes and nobody wears a helmet. The idea is to take the wait out of a waiting room.



I work in many different styles. I'm told artists don't normally do that. I don't care.

I also am the founder and director of 3 Balloons, a retail store, workshop, and children's bookstore that benefits people with intellectual disabilities.

I publish a column – "Bad Poetry in Motion" – four times a week on substack. The names sound just like what you'll get if you go there.

And, yes, I know the self portrait makes me look better than I do. 

– Steve




About Yours Truly


Occupation: Artist and writer


Wife: Patient and forgiving

Offspring: Less patient, equally forgiving
Grandchildren: Many. All reasons for America to be hopeful

Home: World's smallest five-bedroom house

Education: B.A. English, Westminster College, Missouri


Children's Books

• Owen's Choice

• Squiffy & the Vine Street Boys in Shiver Me
   Timbers!" – Muddy Boots Books

• Grumpypants

• Where Kent Went

• Darien the Crustatarian

• Hay-Hay's Dog Has Her Day-Day

• Whit's Matching Shoes

• Ice for Rent: Bad Poetry in Motion

• My Favorite Nursery Rhymes
• Go Trippy Go!
• The Hunt for Smitty
• This is Not a Farm
• Rusty, Musty & Dusty, the Clowns Without a Circus
• The First Traffic Jam in Callaway County
• Today, I am a Jew
• One Pedal More, Please!
• Cecil, the Steadfast Sea Oat



Books

• Bullet Bill Dudley: The Greatest 60-Minute Man in Football. Globe Pequot/Rowman & Littlefield.

• Co-author What Would Mary Ann Do? with Dawn Wells. Taylor Trade.

• Flip, a novel.
• Square Heart, a wordless book for adults
• Moon Over Volney, another novel


Commercial Art

• The Steve Stinson Art Studio is a full service shop – writing, editing, design, graphics, illustration, video production.



Things hardly worth mentioning, but I will, anyway . . .


• Ringmaster and juggler in "Circus Minimus," a show for children.

• Writer and performer in "Bad Poetry in Motion," a comedy troupe.

• Elementary school juggling coach.

• Founding Board Member, National D-Day Memorial Foundation.

• I rode a bicycle across Europe.  It was far.

• I rode a bicycle across the United States. It was farther.

• Ran the Virginia Ten-Miler while juggling three balls. Had seven drops. This was when I was young and limber.