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A Pen & Oink interview with Tao Nyeu: A Look Into Silkscreening and Color...
Above a favorite spread from Mama’s Kisses, illustrated by Tao Nyeu, written by Kate McMullan. Many years ago a friend sent me a link to author/illustrator Tao Nyeu’s old website when she was a...
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Behind the Scenes: The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra, with Ana Aranda
Above: The cover for The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra. I love Ana Aranda’s work, and I especially love her incredible color sense. She embraces purple and pink, and makes these colors feel...
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Behind the Scenes with Maral Sassouni: The Green Umbrella
Above: The endpapers for The Green Umbrella. Illustrator Maral Sassouni combines ink, pencil, crayon, and monoprinting to create the rich collages in The Green Umbrella, a sweet picture book about...
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Lani Yamamoto inspires me!
From Albert. My complete collection of Lani Yamamoto books. (Click to enlarge). Lani Yamamoto’s books have been a big inspiration to me. I love her books on every level, for the topics they tackle, for...
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A Studio visit with Dasha Tolstikova
I reached out to Dasha Tolstikova because I LOVED her illustrations for The Jacket. Her work really inspires me — so fresh and loose and graphic. I got chance to meet with her recently at her home...
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Behind The Scenes of Steve Jobs: Insanely Great, with Jessie Hartland
The cover for Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland “A very brief history of the computer before 1975.” A final spread for Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland. “Throughout the book I...
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Best Erasers Ever!
My two new favorite erasers: dust-gathering (red), light-erasing (blue). I was recently ordering some of my favorite nibs. As every online retailer knows, I’m going to fill my cart to get the free...
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Laura Carlin: Behind the Scenes of A World of Your Own
The cover for A World of Your Own by Laura Carlin. Laura Carlin’s work is sensitive, thoughtful, and beautiful. You’ve probably seen her illustrations for The Promise, by Nicola Davies and for The Iron...
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A Pen & Oink interview with the great Sara Varon!
Endpapers from Sweaterweather (click to enlarge) Author/illustrator Sara Varon is one of my all time favorites! From her color palette and quiet humor, her touching characters and story lines, her...
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A List of Ideas for Self-Initiated Illustration Pieces
A new piece for my portfolio, based on feedback from SCBWI-LA. ©Robin Rosenthal For the past few months I’ve been working on new pieces for my portfolio based on the amazing feedback I received at the...
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Ode to Italian Authors and Illustrators
(click to enlarge) page spread illustrated by Emanuele Luzzati from Italo Calvino’s: Il visconte dimezzato. I recently went back to Italy, almost ten years after I had left it. That’s a long story I...
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A Pen & Oink interview with Dan Santat: The making of Beekle
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat Recently I got a chance to talk with Dan Santat about his latest picture book, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. There are...
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High School French Follow-up!
(click to enlarge) I cannot believe I wrote this post a year ago. When I put it on Facebook, I hadn’t thought much about it. But lo and behold Mark from my high school French class (and just about...
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Event alert! Sex and Violence in Children’s Books at the PEN World Voices...
A still from a pilot episode of The Muppet Show. Hey, literary New Yorkers! Sex! Violence! Also, The PEN World Voices Festival has been going on this week—and this weekend, they’ve got not one but two...
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The best yes ever
Some time ago, I wrote and dummied this story about a bear named Ursula (natch) who does water ballet. She’s training for the big water ballet championship with her friend Ricardo… …until one morning,...
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A Studio Visit with Paul O. Zelinsky
Painting from the 1998 Caldecott Medal book Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (click to enlarge) “I’ve benefited a lot from practicing figure drawing. Spring Studio in SoHo is not so far from here. It’s...
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Sunshine covers!
These three books are on my bedside table*; they make me happy. First and foremost, they happen to be fantastic reads that I highly recommend full of humor, heart and outstanding illustrations. I look...
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“If you are drawing characters really swing your cat.” Highlights From the...
My piece for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, an assignment for the Illustrators’ Intensive. I am still riding an inspired high from last weekend’s SCBWI Winter Conference. I’ve been to the conference...
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Sara Fanelli’s My Map Book
Map of My Heart (click to enlarge) I’ll never forget when I came across Sara Fanelli’s My Map Book while I was re-shelving books at the independent bookstore I worked at many years ago. It made me...
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EVENTS!
Getting ready for tomorrow’s post on http://t.co/CeiNMyyI4D #PaperMash #craftyvine https://t.co/ZQhWd0sp2j — ruthie (@ruthielafond) November 10, 2013 This is a lucky time of year for New Yorkers....
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