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I'm really excited today to launch my online gallery and shop which features prints of illustrations from several of my books and original art work. There are several images available now and I'll be adding more in coming weeks. Here's a link: http://litajudgeshop.com
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At last - two little owls who live on the rooftops of my dreams get to live for real in my book, Hoot and Peep! Book birthdays are always the best - this one especially so.
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I felt like painting a moody piece in preparation for a book I'm beginning. It's always challenging and fun to break into new territory.
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Here's a snowy cottage from my daily painting-sketch journal.
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From my daily painting-sketch journal - this little downy woodpecker has been frequenting the suet feeder outside my studio window. One perk to these cold winter days is how much I get to enjoy watching the critters around our feeder.
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Wishing you all a beautiful New Year!
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For TBT - a painting of my grandmother's front door. How I miss that old farmhouse in Wisconsin.
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Meet Peeps, Hoot and Mouse. I'm having a ball bringing these characters out for another adventure. Hmmmm, so many wonderful things floating around in my imagination, can't wait to get it all down on paper.
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Fond memories of a trip we took in the fall to paint in Italy. This is one of the paintings born of that lovely adventure.
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Have been working in words and sketching rough sketches for weeks. It's wonderful to break out the paint again!
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It's so much fun to see Flight School heading out into the big wide world. I love the thought of kids in many different countries reading a story I was lucky enough to create. And now I can practice my french!
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Sketch of the day - another pair of inhabitants to our land enjoying the nest box we put up. Each spring for my birthday, Dave puts oodles of nesting boxes in our yard and I enjoy the cycle of life all year round.
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I have much to be thankful for this year. People and critters to love, improved health, and projects I'm really excited about. This picture sums up my joy. May you all have many blessings that you carry in your heart.
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This bobcat shares our land. I'm so lucky to have such inspiration and beauty surrounding me.
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Less than three months till my new book baby is released - getting very excited for this one!
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A painting for today. After working so long on sketches for books, it is fun to be painting!!
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Flight School has been nominated to three state reading lists for 2015!
New Hampshire Ladybug Picture Book Award
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OH what HEAVEN to see the birdies of Flight School finally take flight on stage!! Really an amazing day. I am so thankful to the incredibly talented people that poured all of their passion into this. Thank you ALL! If you want more information, or to get tickets, check the Vital Theatre site.
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Book signings with your birdie are so much more fun! Thank you all for a lovely day at The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough. Beatrix had a ball.
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It is always so inspiring when I get to step out of the studio and work in the field with sketchbook in hand. My most recent painting trip was in France.
My goal was to gather ideas for a book I am just starting that is set in France, but even more importantly, to take some time away from the intense studio work and create an atmosphere of creative play and exploration. I want to see and record as much as I can when I am working in a sketchbook. But I also want to stretch myself as an artist, try new methods, experiment with new surfaces, tackle paintings I would never do in the studio, basically just climb out on a limb and PAINT. On this trip I painted in gardens and on street corners, I painted rooftops and sculptures, I even painted self portraits of myself because I wanted to record how happy I was while exploring. I worked in ink and watercolor, fountain pen and pencil. I had fun collecting bags from Paris shops and experimented with watercolor on toned surfaces. The warm brown paper bags made a wonderful surface to bounce the blue skies and dazzling light of Paris. Sketch trips are always a wonderful time to really push yourself to see new things and play with ideas on how to capture them in paint. I always feel thankful after painting trips and even a little reluctant to give up the freedom I find in the field as apposed to the studio. But journeys with sketchbooks always recharge me and fuel my ideas for stories. They make the work I create in the studio all the more meaningful because the work was started during such joyful adventures.
Here are a few of the sketches from this last trip.
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Happiness is arriving at Hawley Elementary School to find every student has made a red hat to wear and drawn a picture of their favorite animal wearing a red hat. Here is just one class. So fun to see the whole school in red! Thank you all of Newtown, CT for an awesome week!!
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It’s a sleepy morning in the cottage, but Beatrix the parrot is wide AWAKE…and she can’t wait to start the day with her friends.
"...a lead character whose energetic, blissfully obtuse personality is as vivid as her bright green feathers...It’s easy to imagine the many warm, giggling interchanges that snuggling with this book will inspire."
--Publisher's Weekly, *STARRED REVIEW
"Beatrix's irrepressible character stands out as brightly as her green and gold plumage....Young children who share Beatrix's morning hyperactivity, or even just her flexible relationship with the idea of an "indoor voice," will certainly relate…as will, without doubt, their parents. A few hearty squawks and a brisk bit of exercise...what better way to start the day? "
--Kirkus Reviews
Click here for sneak peak.
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Hi, Lacoon and Lita, you’re absolutely cuuuuute!! Cheers, Sadami