About
Brooke Collier Photography
Hello and welcome! This is the website of author and illustrator, Kenneth Kraegel (Kraegel rhymes with bagel). Thanks for stopping by!
Before I started making picture books, I did a lot of other things. I volunteered at an agriculture school in Honduras, helped refugees find jobs and furniture in Chicago, volunteered with an NGO in Uganda, was a general laborer on a construction site in Wyoming, and worked on organic vegetable farms in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio. I now live in Grand Rapids, Michigan with my family.
For the illustrations in my books, I use watercolor and either pen or pencil on paper (usually Arches 140 lb. cold press). I work in a little studio in my basement. On one side of the room is my drawing board where I draw and paint. If I spin around, I am sitting at my computer where I write the words and lay out book dummies (something I show to my publisher so they can get an idea of what a book will look like).
You can follow me on Facebook, where I occasionally post.
Before I started making picture books, I did a lot of other things. I volunteered at an agriculture school in Honduras, helped refugees find jobs and furniture in Chicago, volunteered with an NGO in Uganda, was a general laborer on a construction site in Wyoming, and worked on organic vegetable farms in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio. I now live in Grand Rapids, Michigan with my family.
For the illustrations in my books, I use watercolor and either pen or pencil on paper (usually Arches 140 lb. cold press). I work in a little studio in my basement. On one side of the room is my drawing board where I draw and paint. If I spin around, I am sitting at my computer where I write the words and lay out book dummies (something I show to my publisher so they can get an idea of what a book will look like).
You can follow me on Facebook, where I occasionally post.