More from the amazing Dick Termes. His one-man show, Thinking In the Round will be on display through the end of this in Rapid City, South Dakota.
What can children’s book illustrators learn from his work? I think, that we grasp artistic perspective most easily when we think in a round way.
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Austin illustrator and designer Marsha Riti gave a great interview to children’s author and kid lit blogger Tara Lazar, recently (and I’m not just saying that because she mentions me there.) You can read about Marsha’s path into the world of children’s books and the art history that inspires her here.
Marsha has a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and is active with both the Austin Society of Children’s Book Illustrators and its elite swat team of picture book writer-illustrators, The Inklings.
She also maintains what I would describe as exemplary illustrator’s blog. I recommend that you check it out — for fun and also if you are looking for ways to do an art blog right. It’s on our blog roll and right here.
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Tuesday night we conducted our first group conference call for the
Make Your Splashes; Make Your Marks! children’s book illustration course.
We looked at students’ work and just talked about it as if we were all sitting around in a studio classroom eating pizza — except we were at various points around the country — California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Texas, as it happens. We had all four directions covered!
And you can be a part of this! Technology has made distance-learning suddenly very, very easy. How easy? Find out for yourself by signing up for the course — and join the meetings.
You can test drive a huges section of the course content for free, while it’s still available, by going here.
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And now back to our spherically scheduled programming.
Mark Mitchell hosts the How to be a Children’s Book Illustrator blog.
