Rosalyn Schanzer has found many ways to make sure the artwork in her nonfiction books is absolutely accurate. One of her favorite methods is to visit the places she's writing about and take photographs to use as reference for her paintings. For example, when she wrote Gold Fever! she visited every gold rush historical site she could find in California and took over 600 photos of everything from gold nuggets to saloons to scenery.
The slideshow below is filled with some of the pictures she took while doing the research for her upcoming book about Charles Darwin. Stay tuned!