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I can't tell you how tickled I get when I receive sweet messages from librarians who use my coloring pages to help promote reading in their communities. This latest image is from Helen at the Council Bluffs Public Library. She decorates their library windows for each season - this one was summer:

     Is this not the cutest? THIS is one of my favorite ways to see my artwork used!
     Have you used my images in a creative way to decorate your library or classroom? Please send them to me - I'd love to share them right here on my blog!
     Happy reading everybody!

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Click the above image to see an excellent visual explanation of how and why to use "whom" in a sentence. I love The Oatmeal's entertaining and quirky take on subjects as traditionally dry as grammar. Example:

Woohoo, potatoes!

The mastermind behind The Oatmeal is Matthew Inman. His self-written bio says it all:

"The Oatmeal's real name is Matthew and he lives in Seattle, Washington. He subsists on a steady diet of crickets and whiskey. He enjoys long walks on the beach, gravity, and breathing heavily through his mouth. His dislikes include scurvy, typhoons, and tapeworm medication."

Matthew acknowledges the help of a librarian for his "whom" comic:

If you like Matthew's grammar posters, you can buy The Oatmeal Grammar Pack.

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Illustrationen für ein Buch mit Tiergeschichten. Herder Verlag.

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We take in color every day and are influenced by its healing qualities. The beauty of a gorgeous flower can uplift our spirits! The colors we are attracted to and see have deep meaning. We will explore this world of healing for six weeks of fun videos, lessons and fun homework. Join me Friday. Mention COLOR HEALING COUPON and receive $10.00 off your class on sign up. Head on over here to sign up and for details.

 

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Quarry Books have published a new series of drawing books and I was lucky enough to get hold of a copy of "20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature" by Eloise Renouf. The book contains over 900 illustrations of owls, birds, trees, leaves, fossils and more, and features plenty of space for you to practice drawing your own versions. Eloise is well known for her fantastic mid

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Justine Aldersey-Williams has recently launched her own label, ‘joybringer’ with a range of printed products from her ‘folk flora’ pattern collection, which are now on sale in her new Folksy store. To create the designs Justine went 'back to basic' by using hand-crafted techniques to balance the computerised process. The designs were hand 'drawn' with a scalpel and some black paper befire being

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these mugs from My Rosie Lee where designed, produced and decorated in great Britain. the 'menagerie' designs have spring theme with chicks, hares, and eggs. the 'monochrome' range was inspired by nature and features waves, rushes, berries, and birds nests. My Rosie Lee is the brainchild of Sarah-Jane Renaud and Liselle Joslyn and although the brand's first two capsule collections have focused

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The Japan Image Council (JAPIC) has announced that they are now accepting applications for their “Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2014″ program.

The project, organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho/Government of Japan) and run by the Japan Image Council since 2010, is a residency that “aims to provide three outstanding young animation artists from around the world with an opportunity to come to Tokyo and create new works while directly interacting with Japanese animation culture.”

The artists selected will spend 70 days in Tokyo, between January 7 and March 17th, 2014. The program will provide travel expenses, living allowance, and rental accommodations, as well as the opportunity to interact with the Japanese animation community. You can read the report from this year’s program to get a sense of what will happen.

As always, there’s a catch, and this residency has one, too: you’ve got to be good. The three artists who were in the last program are all excellent filmmakers—Caleb Wood (United States), Elli Vuorinen (Finland), and Emma de Swaef (Belgium). Applicants, who must be between the ages of 20-35, need to have had one of their projects screened at an international film festival/exhibition and must submit a plan for a new animated work that is at least three minutes in length.

The application deadline for this year’s program is September 9th, 2013. To apply, go to JAPIC’s application page.

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"I draw, therefore I am", is all that is stated on Miguel Herranz's Blog profile. This amazing artist, living in Barcelona, Spain, is also known as Free[k]hand; you may recognize the small perculator logo he signs his drawings and urban sketches with. He's a very versatile artist, who draws in many different styles and materials. Like a lot of urban sketchers, he uses pen and watercolours, but I love it how he also uses ballpoint pens in all sorts of colour varieties, making amazing drawings with them. Just like I do, he draws when waiting, and ends up drawing crowds and shoes and faces. Have a look for yourself and enjoy this tiny fraction of all the awesomeness.













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A new Chipmunks series, ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, is set to debut in 2015. The show, which has been in development since 2010 when it was called The Chipmunks and Chipettes, represents the first time that the characters will appear in CGI for the television format. The 52×11-minute series will also be the first original Chipmunks television show in 25 years.

The new series was created by Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karman, who have overseen the characters since 1972 when Ross Bagdsarian Sr. passed away. According to themselves, it’s a great revival. “Janice has created a show that I feel is the best thing we’ve ever done,” said Bagdasarian Jr.

The show will be produced by Bagdasarian Productions and French production studio Genao Productions, and distributed worldwide (except US and France) by PGS Entertainment.

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This is super top secret stuff but I feel like I can trust you guys so here’s the skinny. I’ve been talking with some well known artists and I will be talking with a few more about joining me for live online classes coming soon. Stay tuned for more updates and whatever you do don’t tell anyone…

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ONLINE CLASSES – Please send me more info about upcoming online classes and tutoring sessions!

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Here is a new documentary about Pickle's story!




Pickle will be released in September.  Here is a story development documentary of the book app.  Sign up to follow the latest production stories about Pickle, you may win a FREE copy of the app!!

http://signup.pickleintweeterland.com/

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You may have heard!

 All you need to do is comment below and say "want!" and at the end of 1 week...midnight, August 27th...a winner is drawn!  The giveaway is open to anyone from anywhere, and I'll be sure to get your address after the drawing.

So you know how cool the Violet figure is...here's a top view:


Great fun to work on!  I am a lucky kid ^_^

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Sevensheaven proudly presents Breaking Bad's Heisenberg, the 3D pixel bust!

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Well, it’s that time of year again. A couple animated films perform below-average at the box office and the mainstream media begins asking, “Are Hollywood studios cranking out too many animated films?”

The article is filled with alarmist descriptions of the film animation industry, like “a flood of computer-animated movies” (because five films apparently constitutes a ‘flood’) and eye-roll worthy quotes like this one from DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg:

“We’ve never experienced this level of animation congestion in a period of time.”

and this gem from Illumination chief executive Chris Meledandri:

“[A]s more films are planned, it’s inevitable that there will be more acute cannibalization of each other.”

Cannibalization? Let’s get a grip, here. There are only eleven major animated releases planned for this year. That’s compared to hundreds of live-action releases. How is it that the feature film market can support hundreds of live-action films but less than a dozen animated pics?

The problem isn’t that there are too many animated films; the problem is that every single animated release is targeted at the same family demographic.

Yes, there were five animated releases this summer in the span of a couple months. That’s hardly newsworthy considering that there were dozens of live-action releases in the same period. The issue is that all five of those films were targeted to the exact same audience. I suffered through a couple of them, and if you have an intellectual capacity beyond a seven-year-old’s, chances are you’re going to want to watch something more stimulating.

A far more illuminating article would have been to ask why film executives ghettoize the animation art form and refuse to cater to a broader range of audiences, as animated filmmakers in Europe and Asia routinely do. Hayao Miyazaki’s controversial new animated feature The Wind Rises is geared toward adult audiences, and has not only been the number one film in Japan for the past month, but will likely become Japan’s number one film at the box office for all of 2013.

The writer of the LA Times article, Richard Verrier, who should know better considering that he covers the film industry for a living, erroneously refers to animation as a genre in his piece on multiple occasions. But, as we’ve discussed many times before, animation is NOT a genre. It may be perceived as a genre by Hollywood execs, but animation is as much a genre as live-action is.

To quote the animation industry’s patron saint of common sense, Brad Bird:

I think that there is more misreading of trends in animation than any other of the film community. If Cool World fails, then all adult-themed animation is doomed. And if Disney fails, all of animation is doomed. And it’s not like, “Well, hey, man, you know, maybe people are tired of five songs and a familiar story.” … That’s like if George Lucas hit a rough patch, somebody would suddenly say, “Well, people are tired of science fiction.” It’s ridiculous! It’s the kind of idiotic statement that never seems to go out of style in Hollywood… Animation is not a genre. It is a method of storytelling. People are constantly analyzing it and misanalysing it as if it is a genre. It isn’t a genre. It can do horror films, it can do adult comedies if it wanted to, it could do fairy tales, it could do science fiction, it could do musicals, it could mystery, it can do anything. Because Disney has been the only one that’s lavished any care on it, people [then] think it’s the only kind that can be told successfully.

And even if you want to lump all animation as a genre, the argument is still flimsy and incorrect. How is there a glut when two of the top four films at the American box office are animated this year:

1. Iron Man 3 / $408,195,474
   
2. Despicable Me 2 / $346,642,075
   
3. Man of Steel / $289,694,329
   
4. Monsters University / $261,134,998
   
5. Fast & Furious 6 / $238,464,720
   

On top of that, Despicable Me 2 is the single most profitable film in the history of Universal. The financials alone would suggest that the success rate in animation is far higher than live-action’s hit rate. Perhaps then, the writers of the LA Times should be exploring whether there’s a glut of live-action films in Hollywood.

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