Steve Light’s most recent book, Trucks Go, just became available for sale at Amazon and Chronicle Books. (Congratulations, Steve!) For those of you who pre-ordered it, keep an eye on the mailbox – it’s on the way. (To see photos of the Trucks Go creative process, visit Steve’s blog at www.stevelightart.com)

Steve Light wears many hats – among them that of children’s book author, illustrator, toymaker, teacher, and -- happily for us -- regular Koloist contributor. Here he shares some recent City Dragons drawings that he made in his Kolo album of choice, the Kolo Cortina Lux photo album, with his Pelikan Souverän M805. (You might remember Steve mentioning this fantastical fountain pen with the nib custom ground by Richard Binder in previous posts here and here about Steve's Organ Grinder illustrations.)

My former mentor, the late great Dave Passalacqua and I used to draw in the city all the time. New York offers endless sources of inspiration. I was thinking of that recently, and remembering how, as I kid, I used to imagine that the steam that arose from manhole covers was smoke from dragons that lived under the streets. To me, it's so much fun to draw the city if there’s a story behind the drawings, so I drew scenes with a boy in them, and the city dragons that he imagines.

Steve promises to share a few more City Dragons illustrations in a future post on Koloist soon. Stay tuned.