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Mar.25.2010
FOR YEARS AND YEARS, I have been collaborating on this Illustrated-Young-Adult-Civil-War-Ghost-Story called Picture the Dead with the lovely and talented YA author Adele Griffin, (She's not a young adult, she writes for young adults.). It's finally hitting bookstore shelves this coming May, 2010....
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Feb.03.2010
This is the Stained Glass Mountain, one of the wild places my central character will escape to as the story progresses. If another story already did something similar, please let me know.
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Feb.03.2010
Here's another old painting I'm using as inspiration. Screaming Tree is from way back in my freshman year in college, with some details I added later on but can't remember when. This and the other painting I posted today show some of the look I want for a story of a misfit child rejected by both...
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Jan.24.2010
I bought the above illustration a couple of years ago, partly because I am always looking for images of rats in art, but also because I am interested in the work of European artists who have been heavily influenced by Japanese art and design.
This particular illustration was taken from...
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Nov.24.2009
Wanna see how artist extraordinaire Carol Baicker-McKee created those amazing 3D, multimedia illos in An Apple Pie For Dinner? Check out this cool mini-pie tutorial on her blog, Doodles and Noodles.
I have new appreciation for the mindboggling amount of meticulous handcrafting that went into...
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Nov.18.2009
My guest today is talented illustrator and sometimes author Kit Grady. Grady has worked for Windswept House Publishers, Kaeden Books, Guardian Angel Publishing, The United Methodist Publishing House and Kicksclub Books. In this interview, Grady talks about her road to illustrating, her style and...
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Aug.24.2009
I ended last week's post by observing that genius finds a way. What makes me so certain? Children's books do. Sure there's plenty out there that's uninspired, or only marginally inspired. But there are also books that take your breath away -- books that make me certain that genius is still doing...
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Aug.17.2009
Yesterday, as I was riding my bicycle in the hills near my house, I came upon a garage sale where a man was selling two cartons of old picture books. By old, I don’t mean the discarded, chewed upon Scholastic paperbacks you find at most garage sales, but worn and lovely books from the forties ,...
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May.31.2009
Pat Guppy likes nothing better than to catch up on her reading whilst cooking like a chicken on the lawn. And what is Pat Guppy's journal of choice? Why, it's 'Fraudsters Weekly'... a broadsheet that is both entertaining and educational, and has paid for itself a hundred times over on account of...
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Apr.23.2009
How do you present your illustrations to a publisher? At the 2004 LA Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference, Kristine Brogno, former Design Director of the Children's Division of Chronicle Books, shared a list of ten things not to send to an art director... Read...
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