The Rocket: Inspired by my kids who run around with a toy rocket they got for Christmas and the latest SpaceX rocket launches, this illustration ranks amongst my most challenging. Achieving the deep and dark blacks, blues and purples of space with watercolor certainly gave me pause throughout the process. I kept calling in my wife saying, “I don’t know if this one is going to come out…” But I kept with it and I am very pleased with the end result. And certainly, the kids are, too!