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When you're working in a creative profession it's important to find time for personal projects every now and then to keep the passion for your work alive. Even if you love the projects you're working on for clients, it's something different about taking time to make something out of your own ideas.
My favorite personal projects is making my own books. I write and make illustrations for picture books and I'm also writing on a chapter book at the moment. It's difficult to find the time to work on personal projects when I have lots of client work to focus on, but as soon as I have a bit of down-time I'll get to work on my own projects. They're slowly coming together. At the moment I'm balancing my personal projects and my client work by spending the first hour of each day working on personal projects. The rest of the day is for clients. I'm sure my personal projects will be set on hold at times when I have tight deadlines, but for now it's working pretty good.
The image above is showing some of my rough sketches for one of my picture book projects.
A couple months ago, I posted the finish of the first painting in a series for the seasons. This is the sketch for spring with a lot of cherry blossoms, a big horn lamb, bluebirds and a bunny. It will be a long while before I can color this, but I can hardly wait. Here is winter:
http://christinawald.blogspot.com/2010/04/finish-of-winter.html
In honor of
12-Way with Cheese being released, I thought I would show how differently things started.
As I said, I have worked on this story concept for YEARS and could not get it to gel.
Below here is the first attempt...
After I kept sketching and working on the story, I realized the art was totally in the wrong direction. As a result, I worked on new more cartoony concepts as seen to the left here. I even had a whole manuscript with a different story I tossed.
This is the final result:
So, stay tuned now that the book is out for upcoming signings and events. There was even just an article about the book in CityBeat.
Check it out!
I should also mention we just had a blurb in Imagine FX as well!
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I was waiting to get feeback for the cover sketch on my next book and finished this up while waiting. It is part of a four illustration series based on the four seasons.
Here is the explanation and sketch.
The Moon is La Luna: Silly Rhymes in English & Spanish is a delightful introduction to poetry and Spanish for little ears. It was also one of the many wonderful books submitted to the Cybils Awards this year. Some samples:
Grande is big.
Pequeño is small.
And nada is nothing at all.
The sea is el mar.
To float is flotar.
If you miss the boat,
You won't get too far
If you try to float
'Cross the sea in your car.
Written by Jay M. Harris and illustrated by Matthew Cordell, the poems engage readers in word play while the amusing illustrations demonstrate what could happen if you used the wrong word. For example:
In Español, papá means "dad."
("paPA" is how it is said.)
But papá (said "POP-a") doesn't mean "dad."
It means "potato" instead.
So watch how you say it,
Unless you would like
A potato to tuck you in bed.
The idea of being tucked into bed by a giant potato sends little ones into gales of laughter. Introducing inventive word play when children are highly attuned to rhyme is a wonderful way to train their ears to listen to the differences between English and Spanish. I highly recommend this book to "little" ears of all ages.
The Poetry Friday Round-up is at The Simple and the Ordinary today.
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What a great book for teaching a bit of Spanish - and an enjoyment for poetry at the same time!
Two wonderful poems for the young childen. A great way to introduce them to Spanish and poetry.
I absolutely agree and will be looking for more silly rhymes from this author in the future.