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Author: Laura Nyman Montenegro
Illustrator: Laura Nyman Montenegro
Published: 2003 Houghton Mifflin (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0618188657 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Dancing, character-filled artwork in rich apricots and olives complements honest first-person expression to buoy us through the crests and troughs of a young artist’s big day in this inspiring story of confidence, creativity and acceptance.
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The quote from Emily (Micahel Bedard and Barbara Cooney) referred to in this episode:
“What is poetry?” I asked.
… “Listen to Mother play. She practices and practices a piece, and sometimes a magic happens and it seems the music starts to breathe. It sends a shiver through you. You can’t explain it, really; it’s a mystery. Well, when words do that, we call it poetry.”
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Here's how I arrived at this:
I searched warrior at wikipedia, and I came up with a general description of war and battles and the people who love them. Then I came to a section about women warriors, specifically a character named Vishpala.
Vishpala was a woman in the Rigveda, a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to Rigvedic deities. It is counted among the four Hindu sacred texts known as the Vedas.
Vishpala is helped in battle by the Ashvins (the doctors of gods). As she lost her leg in Khela's battle and they gave her a "leg of iron" so that she could keep fighting. Cool!
This immediatelty brought to mind Rose McGowan's character in the "Planet Terror" segment of "Grindhouse".
Many, many years ago, when I was in art school, I was taught to always look for reference material (or 'scrap') before doing an illustration. I searched Yahoo and Google for Female Warriors. This resulted in page after page of scantily-clad Frazetta amazons wielding giant broadswords and pictures of Xena. I thought, "If these women are headed for battle, wouldn't they be covered in armor?"
So, no femme fatale military bimbos for me. My Vishpala is using her new, god-given iron leg to kick some enemy ass!
Let me know what you think.
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wonderful, josh! i lovvve the line work, especially on the lighter chain mail/armor. and, the heavy color and scribbly line...it all adds to her persona. are you all prisma markers with this? it really looks great! :)
She's very cool, buddy. Nice armor. Great research.
Thanks! My weapons of choice are markers, although I just got my first set of colored pencils since I was in art school. I plan to take a shot at coloring in Photoshop ....using some instruction I found at a cool website www.mikerbaker.com
Ooooh, Josh. :)
Very nice work!
yOUR WARRIOR IS bEAUTIFUL!
and kick ass she does I love it Thanks for all the research as well...