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Last weekend in Seattle, my daughter and I watched the Brooks PR Invitational -- a elite high school track meet with some of the best high school runners in the country. Great stuff and a very nice precursor to Father's Day :) No steeplechase at the meet, but with it would be an event well suited to the polar bear when the icepack breaks up.
A bear and the northern lights...
A quick polar bear post card nod to yesterday's World Oceans Day. Live aloha, hang ten, and cut back on those carbon emissions!
Another card inspired by recent student submissions :) I love how this one puts a little twist on the traditional comic panel -- and such great expressions as you move clockwise through the disappointment of the too warm thunderstorm!
Yesterday was World Turtle Day... and I picked up where I left off with the adventurous little bear from last week. I'm liking these color washes too, so perhaps a few more like this to come!
In the continued "Read Across America" theme for the week, yesterday was
World Book Day. I think this works!
Post Card No. 100 goes into the mail today and it will be live on the blog sometime Saturday morning. I mean, not that I have anything super special planned for my 100th card, but it IS the 100th and that certainly feels like a milestone :)
Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! And from the Lorax, some fine words for the Post Card Project:
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not!"
For my 94th post card, I'm taking a little trip down memory lane -- to
1994 and the year that I graduated from college.
Carleton was a great place. A small liberal arts school in south central Minnesota. Not exactly polar bear territory, and maybe not the typical start for a children's book author/illustrator, but it was an experience of community and friendship, participation and expectation that I wouldn't trade for the world. I walked away on that fine June afternoon with a Studio Art degree and a teaching certificate. Nothing "rockstar" and glamorous for sure, but a solid foundation built on something tangible, connected, and considered. From there, the skies the limit!
World's collide: Yesterday was
"World Read-a-Loud Day" #WRAD16 and
I just picked up a copy of the fantastic
Pink is for Blobfish by
Jess Keating (illustrated by David DeGrand). That being said, this little book 'o crazy great non-fiction would make the PERFECT read-a-loud for a celebration of polar bears -- so there you go!
Nanook in the Northern Lights -- a little experiment with gouache & ink.
This coming Saturday, February 27th, is
International Polar Bear Day! I've had polar bears on the brain since about 1999 - even more so since last September. Check out
Polar Bear International's page above and then take 30 min or so to
make a post card for the President - a gentle polar bear reminder of your own to protect the Arctic!
"Adrift" A continued series from yesterday's card.
The world? The environment? The climate change discussion? Take your pick. GRRR!
An extra day off from posts due to travel over the long President's Day weekend -- but the Arctic can't catch a break. Recent new items detail toxic algal blooms that have potentially killed off hundreds of birds and assorted whales as more open water leads to more light beneath the surface and thusly more potential for such algae to spread even further north. Can effects to polar bears populations be far behind?
Alas, the Supreme Court recently put the White House's carbon pollution limits on hold. Thusly, despite President Obama's best intentions, the hands of progress are currently tied...
In the style of
Pogo by Walt Kelly. The tagline is Kelly's from a poster for the original Earth Day in 1970 and was used again in the
comic strip for Earth Day 2.0 in 1971. Although the
Pogo-styled polar bear here is starring at an oil rig, the original intent goes much deeper and appropriately broader. For the most part, corporations and politicians are only giving us what we demand. We
do have a say with what we purchase and who we elect -- duly noted with today's NH primary -- and we
can have an impact.
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