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Need audible book suggestions on #kidlit or #kidlitart that I definitely should listen to! Thanks! #WritingCommunity #pbchat
Is there a proper or official onomatopoeia for passing gas? This is a very serious question, I mean it! #writingcommunity #pbchat
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Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (June 21): https://t.co/BliduU5pfh Inside: PB writing tips, @JustinRColon's #PBchat mentorships, more. Thanks to Yuna Cheong for the illustration and @LizLim & @KarenJameson15 for the YA & PB giveaways. #kidlit #giveaways
@JustinRColon Published One Week of Pirate Poems on Kindle (the first of the series I've used Kindle Create for, so I had to get to grips with that too) #PBChat
@JustinRColon @meowdemeow @HannahSpuler I'm a visual thinker. I see what I write before I write it.
I saw: "The sun needs to rise, but the Rooster's in bed..." before I wrote the words or painted them.
@jackikellum #PBChat
@JustinRColon @kaylen_wade Because I am a purist of a painter, I don't like the words or the page numbers to mess with my art. Yet, I don't like books without words. To compromise, I paint the scene that I want, but I allow the watercolor to fade for words.
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@deabrayden @JustinRColon My characters tend to have big lips. Here some watercolor illustrations and Copic marker sketches of some of my crew
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@JustinRColon I've undertaken the task of learning to create characters in Adobe Illustrator. When I was in art school, only the government spies had computers. lol I made this goldfish on day 3 of my journey.
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@JustinRColon I rest for a while, and then, I garden. If I need to learn something new [like Adobe Illustrator}, I work on that. When I get back into a work mode [doing something else], I can get back on track.
Images: Jacki Kellum Illustrations
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@scbwi @SterlingKids @zeejung @Scholastic Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast was a slush pile submission to @SterlingKids (@zeejung - who's no longer there, dug it out).
Sterling currently still has open submissions: https://t.co/K6B6n9gByP #PBChat
Answer to #PBChat question last night: "What is Your Philosophy?"
No Regrets about Time that I Seem to Have Wasted on Paintings and Stories that Don't Sell. The Experience Creating a Thing Is Its Own Reward!
Image - Sad, Sad Pig - Jacki Kellum Watercolor Study
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If I had a Talk Show, My First Three Guests Would Be Peter Rabit, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Max, who wore the Wolf Suit. To answer the Bonus Question--The topic of the talk show would be: "What exactly made me impossible to forget? Why will I live forever?"
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@JustinRColon That is a real problem. At a request, I did a rewrite from rhyme to non-rhyme, and the results were tragic.
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@JustinRColon If I had a talk show, my first three guests would be:
Peter Rabbit, The Velveteen Bunny, and Max, who wore the wolf suit.
@jackikellum #PBChat
@JustinRColon I also paint and teach painting. People are afraid that they will ruin their piece by editing. I say: "Ruin What?" If it isn't working, you actually have nothing to ruin. If it doesn't work, slice the thing into pieces. Nothing to lose.
@jackikellum
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And now to find out what the future holds for you Mini @Bonzetta1 Q4) #ukpbchat
@FatherReading A1 #ukpbchat Here’s a picture from my favourite childhood book of fairy tales by Jenny Williams.
@FatherReading A1 #ukpbchat Here are some sketchbook paes from when I was making the Last wolf