# pb pwpoeprompts fridayreads graphicnovel scbwi author illustrator fear illustration illutrating jungle green writer read mississippi color blue rackham illustrated paintings janisjoplin cow illustrations illustrationart greenaway drawings motion illusted caldecott movement pitchwars illustrators aesthetic beatrixpotter

A publisher liked the vintage look of the character studies for my manuscript Pete's Circus, which is set during the Great Depression. [no caged animals or cruelty involved]. He encouraged me to read Return of the Dapper Men.

1 5
2020-10-24

At several events, has been noted as a favorite Finally, I bought his After the Fall. It is more about conquering & Getting Back Up than merely about Humpty Dumpty. Excellent Book. Delightful.

0 3
2020-10-24

A closer look at the bookshelf in my studio. Black and White Cows are the patron saints of my The angel made from an old quilt is also important. Book Shelfie

0 4
2020-10-20

The Secret Life of a Tiger by Emilia Dziubak
a too-green scene is tricky. Before you know it, your image is a true Check out how Emilia Dziubak breaks up all that

0 2
2020-10-19

Over the years, I've watched a lot of trends in picture books come in and go out, but at a recent event, there was a huge outcry for with handwritten text. Check out A Squiggly Story as a text that has been handwritten.

0 4
2020-10-18

D15: Friday Reads. Eschewing the TV this week, I've managed to write a bunch of chapters in Book 2, a short story, and still have time for reading. I'm having fun with and books, as well as a craft book.

3 11
2020-10-16

The Agony and the Ecstasy of being a is that you love to collect books, but then you have difficulty finding time to read them. Yet, reading fuels my writing. I am declaring every Friday as a time that I'll at least a bit from my books

0 6
2020-10-17

For most of my life, I lived in where Walter Anderson grew up and painted. No doubt, his use of has greatly influenced my own work. Like him, I use instead of black. Re-reading my copy of a book about him: The Horn Island Logs

0 5
2020-10-17

Re-reading my copy of Arthur Rackham: A Biography. Although my work is nothing like his, is my hero. No one has ever spun magic in "illustration the way that he did. Must-have book.

0 2
2020-10-17

Today, I am reading Peter Pan in Kensington Garden - Not the same as Peter and Wendy. "...the lady with the balloons, if she were to let go her hold of the railings for one moment, the balloons would lift her up..." Celebrating the need to be more like a child.

0 2
2020-10-17

Today, I am reading my own copy of the beautifully written and gorgeously illustrated In the Quiet Noisy Woods by Michael Rosen and by Annie Won. Every should study Won's style in this book.

0 6
2020-10-17

The thing that I miss most about living in the North is the access there to great art there. Today, I am rereading the exhibition catalog American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. When I saw the tent, I gasped. You must see that painting live

0 4
2020-10-17

3 of my that capture motion via their gestural marks.
1. Gerberas Red, White, and Blue
2. Janis Joplin
3. Wild Arnicas & Lupines in Alasa

0 5
2020-10-16

My Ladybug Ways to Capture Motion. A figure that is sitting can have motion. I captured motion in my sitting bug by having it lean.

0 4
2020-10-16

From the 19th Century Golden Age of Kate Greenaway's shows us ways to capture motion in our Kate Greenaway is the Mother of Picture Books.

0 1
2020-10-16

Although My Dish and Her Man Spoon are merely concept compare to those with that were by Randolph Caldecott MY immediate challenge is to increase the in my https://t.co/3YQzIoGpwK

0 2
2020-10-16


Here's my aesthetics (a mix of google search and art I had commissioned from the wonderful ) not sure how to make a grid, so sadly I can only do 4 pictures.

0 11
2020-10-13

Nature plays a big part in my story and nothing is as it seems. There's a sense of magic in even the most mundane of things.
https://t.co/69XDpaZi6a

0 7
2020-10-14

Beatrix Potter was one of the greatest of the from the Great Age of Illustration, which was about 100 years ago. Notice how Potter's use of plain, simple, plain clothes has not dated her

0 4
2020-10-14