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Lucky enough to be the featured artist on Kathy Temean's blog 'Writing and Illustrating for Children' last Saturday. She features a different artist every week and I'm thankful I was accepted. Lot's of great feedback. See the post at this link ... http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/illustrator-saturday-hazel-mitchell/

Next on the what's happening with 'TWB' (The Wacky Brit) - an agent has expressed interest in rep'ping my Math Concept series! Yippee .. so stay tuned for more exciting news there I hope ....

The winter is still set in here ... more snow forecast this week. Confess I'm ready for spring. Everyone in the house is getting cabin fever. (4 dogs and the crazy cat and 'im indoors.) I fear there are a few more weeks to go yet.

Been working hard scribbling away this week. Mostly on rough drawings for the chapter book for Kane and Miller (under wraps so I  can't share ... but I PROMISE you - your going to love it ...), plus the beginning layouts for Charlesbridge 'Hidden New Jersey.'

As if my arm wasn't tired enough (and it is!), on Saturday  life drawing with Russ Cox and some other artists at a studio in Bangor. We hired a model for the day and got in six hours ... the time flies when you are drawing from life. So good to study a real model and do some disciplined drawing. Decided that as well as full length studies I would hone in on hands and feet (my worst thing!!) so here are a few sketches ...

 

Children’s book character Madeline stars in this year’s L.A. Times’ Festival of Books artwork. The illustration celebrates the new book, Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano.

Marciano is the grandson of original Madeline author/illustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans. Jacket Copy reports: “He never met his grandfather, but he uses the same materials Bemelmans did, including gouache and ‘pens that you have to dip in ink.’ Ludwig Bemelmans started with a pencil sketch and then did an ink drawing over that — as does Marciano.”

In this video, the author explains that the new book was inspired by his grandfather’s friendship with former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. In total, Marciano has published five Madeline titles, continuing the six-book series created by his grandfather. Marciano has also written Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline’s Creator and stand-alone titles like Harold’s Tail and There’s a Dolphin in the Grand Canal.

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Madeline and the Cats of Rome

Dictionary Day has been a lot of fun and we hope you will continue to celebrate all week by taking advantage of the the free access to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Our final quiz is about Italian words. Which quiz did you do best on, French, German, Spanish or Italian?

Question 1: In English we turn as red as a beetroot; what vegetable do we resemble in Italian?

Question 2: If someone offers to go alla romana on a meal out, what do they mean?

Question 3: You want to translate the news to your Italian friend – what are the Italian terms for climate change? fair trade? PFI?

Question 4: You are familiar with your everyday cappuccino, but what did the word originally describe? And what do latte and macchiato mean in Italian?

Question 5: What’s the Italian for weekend, marketing, pub, happy hour?
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