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Blog: Studio Bowes Art (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Shelley Scraps (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'd not heard of "Inktober" before, but after a few recommendations, one of them from everyone's favourite anthropologist @DrAliceRoberts I thought I'd give it a go this year. The idea is to post on social media an ink sketch every day throughout October and tag it with #inktober2016 and #inktober. I wasn't sure at first whether the sketches have to be created the same day you post them or can be older, for the first five days of October it overlapped my series on Archives, which included ink drawings, so I just tagged those posts, but this week from 6th October onwards I've been tweeting fresh sketchbook doodles.
Day 6 |
Day 7 |
I was offline on Day 8, but this for Day 9.... feeling somewhat adrift perhaps |
Day 10. In retrospect I think I might have been subconsciously channelling Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard |
Day 11 - messing about with faces on the TV last night |
I'm thinking, well, if I'm going to do it I shouldn't just limit to Twitter, let's put them on my blog, so for the remainder of the month I'll post one a day. Provided I can keep up that is .... lots to do, so few hours in the day.... Read the rest of this post
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Bit by Bit (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Day 4: Baby Armadillo
It's not that I have so much free time on my hands that I have to join a Drawing A Day challenge (cue hysterical laughter here) -- it's that I really really need to draw a lot of animals for these books I'm illustrating, so when the opportunity came up to join #The100DayProject on Instagram, I immediately grabbed at it. Forcing myself to get started on those animals, particularly ones that are in some way related to the panda bear and elephant habitats.
To read the rest of the post, please click here: 100 Days of Animals.
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Character sketches for "The Tales of Canterbury Rabbit's" is underway with author Laura Brigger....
Blog: the enchanted easel (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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beginnings of a new painting.... |
new things coming to my etsy shop soon.... |
busy day in the studio, multitasking like a boss... |
nursery art commission beginnings.... |
quick little brainstorming session.... |
Blog: Bit by Bit (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The sketch that led to the flowers I finally placed in my HOPE design for January. I'm still in the midst of reorganising my work and my life and have to confess to a bit of a dilemma here as it looks like I'm going to have to decide whether to carry on with the newsletter or place it aside for the moment. The idea of cutting it out hurts quite a bit but, well, I'm having to prioritise, and the illustrations for the children's books that I'm working on tops that list.
Work for college comes next, and the fact that my children's book illustration work has been accepted as part of my course (work-related project yay) helps tons. Floating Lemons seems to be doing rather well despite being mostly ignored recently, but I doubt if I can keep up the monthly commitment to illustrating free printables for the newsletter. I may continue to do so on an erratic basis whenever I find the time (ha ha I'm hilarious) ... we shall see how it goes. Excuses, excuses, I know. But sometimes we just have to give up some of the things we love -- temporarily at least. Perhaps I can work on it once every two months instead, this year ... hmmm that's an idea.
I shall have a good think about it, and hope that meanwhile you'll enjoy the fancy flowers sketch and that you'll pop over to my children's book illustration (and college) blog to see what it is that's been taking up so much of my time lately (beware of panda bears!): Mariana Black Illustration
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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You may find that what really makes Matt magnificent is not his cape, goggles or his lightening speed ...... |
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Jessica Lanan Illustration (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Well, I’m back. Thanksgiving is over. Let the holiday crazy-season begin!
I had high hopes to share some plein air pictures from my Thanksgiving trip to visit family in Deep Springs, California, but chilly, windy weather and a rather nasty cold kept me from painting. So, here’s a little painting done from a photograph that captures the essence. This spring-fed lake was fringed with salt flats and a marsh.
In other news, I’ve had a few requests for prints so I’ve finally added some new ones to my print shop, including some of the pages from The Story I’ll Tell and some landscapes and other miscellaneous illustrations. You can find links to each print on the prints page or you can directly visit the Square shop by following this link. Square works like an online store and accepts credit cards, but if you prefer Paypal, just send me an email instead.
I hope you’re all enjoying the holiday season so far and staying warm and sane.
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Blog: A Mouse in the House (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Poor, misguided folks. They missed the whole point. Lot’s of unhappiness? Maybe so. But doesn’t Santa take a little bit of that unhappiness away? Doesn’t a smile on Christmas morning scratch out a tear cried on a sadder day? Not much maybe. But what would happen if we all tried to be like Santa and learned to give as only he can give: of ourselves, our talents, our love and our hearts? Maybe we could all learn Santa’s beautiful lesson and maybe there would finally be peace on Earth and good will toward men._Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town_ Movie
Blog: the enchanted easel (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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matting and framing donation prints.... |
peeks, peepers and petals.... |
backgrounding blues and greens.... |
black and blue.... |
Blog: Jessica Lanan Illustration (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Happy Halloween, from the creepy demon children. I hope that you have candy for them, because they don’t look very friendly.
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At the height of his career - during the time he was writing Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend - Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. The persona of the 'Uncommercial' allowed Dickens to unify his series of occasional articles by linking them through a shared narrator.
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Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Sermon doodles on Keeping our Focus on Jesus..... |
Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Bit by Bit (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Just a quick glimpse at what I'm playing with right now ... more elephants of course. Though I shall be starting on a new animal soon as well. Experimenting, I love it.
Wishing you a wonderful week. Cheers.
Blog: Picture Book Illustration by Kim Sponaugle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Bit by Bit (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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"Change Your Thoughts and you'll Change Your World" -- Buddha
I've always believed that it's we decide our own futures. Our thoughts dictate our attitudes, choices, interests, and that in turn decides our lives and the paths we choose to take upon our journeys through it. It just makes complete sense to me.
In the last couple of years I've been reading books and watching videos by certain spiritually and/or positively motivated individuals, some of whom have become my mentors as far as this approach to life is concerned. I'm going to share a few of these in case anyone else out there is interested, so just click on the links below ...
Apart from all this refreshing philosophising and thought meandering, I've been at work on my new project whenever I have the time, and will be launching a new blog all about it soon. Meanwhile, have been sketching more elephants, and here they are:
If you've been following me on my facebook page you'll have seen some of these already, and I'll keep posting more there as soon as they sneak themselves into the sketchbook.
Cheers.
Blog: Ellie McDoodle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I first became aware of Jennifer Wharton's brilliant book reviews on the Jean Little Library blog a couple years ago, when she mentioned an Ellie McDoodle book and my awesome friend, children's book author Carrie Pearson alerted me.
It occurred to me, why not look up Jennifer's library and see if my travels would bring me near it sometime? And to my utter shock, I was indeed going to be within sketching distance in just a few months.
I attended my agent's retreat in Lake Geneva, and the Jean Little Library isn't more than a pebble toss away.
We drew penguins, owls, Ellie McDoodle, Ben-Ben, dragons, cats, dogs, ... all sorts of stuff.
Here's Ben-Ben:
I like to draw on a document camera and project it onto the wall so people all over the room can join in easily. We were in a big room, and that crowd really filled it up.
One girl gave me a drawing with an impressive use of spirals:
This is my favorite kind of event: connecting with enthusiastic kids. What a great author life I lead.
Thank you SO much, Jennifer and Jean Little Library!
Blog: Fabulous Illustrator (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Our fat black feline, Moses, spends more time on his back than on his feet.
A few days ago I pondered the possibility that the reason Jim Dear and I feel like the summer has flown by is because through some twist of cat magic Moses actually pulled all the ambient relaxation out of the atmosphere around us. Then he sucked it into his skin and stored it up like a bear stores berries in winter. Therefore we get to spend all summer feeling like we are working hard, chasing kids and yard projects and Moses gets to open one eye and watch us once in a while.
Here's a few slices of work in progress:
Blog: Ellie McDoodle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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On Tuesday we visited Potterville Benton Township District Library,
We brought an easel and drew bats, dogs, penguins, and my first-ever cat on a bike.
Before our audience arrived I showed off the art from Leopold the Lion.
We always draw Ben-Ben.
But what about those scary bats?
Blog: E is for Erik (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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