book brou ha ha
Thanks to several helpings of gravy, I am ready for the upcoming whirl of book events around Ice Harbor Mittens. First off, I am doing a drawing/writing workshop at the Telling Room this Saturday from 1 – 3 PM. We’ll play some drawing games, and let a lost mitten find it’s way home in 10 panels! I made this collage from my pencil sketches for the book, and put it on the cover of the booklets we will fill. Author Robin Hansen has lots up her woolly sleeve, too. Check out her new blog! We’ll be together, signing books, drawing mittens, and having yarnish fun at...
Read Moreyay for Pub Day!
Yes, today is the publication day for Ice Harbor Mittens! This book was illustrated during the frosty months, starting in January. If the art makes you need a pair of cozy mittens RIGHT away, then I did my job. Rather fitting that today is pretty darn brisk. The boat that plays a role in the book is seen out in the bay, on the distant left in this photo I took last week, on a foggyish morning. My pastels lent themselves to the ethereal blur between sea and sky. I’m looking forward to teaming up with author Robin Hansen soon, at a bookstore hopefully near you. Details to...
Read Moreice harbor news
I met the author of Ice Harbor Mittens, Robin Hansen, for the first time on Friday when we drove together to Down East publishing in Rockport. We headed for a meeting with the publisher and sales folks to discuss publicity for our book. And here it is! On the backseat in Robin’s car, strewn with her signature mittens… I used my island neighbors as models, and am hoping to make an island tour of Casco Bay libraries. This is Finn, who becomes Josie in the book, an 11 year-old who wants to be a sternman on his cousin’s lobster boat. I staged my reference photos back in...
Read Morenature’s way
Now that the steamy Solstice has come and gone, it’s hard to believe that six months ago I was working on Ice Harbor Mittens for Down East, snug as a bug in my studio with icicles outside. Peter Ralston photographed me starting one of the illustrations for that book, due out this October. A mighty swell article came out of that, “Happily Ever After” appearing in the 2010 Island Journal, published by the Island Institute. This is one of the photos that didn’t get used, but you can see how I’m trying not to laugh at Peter, who needed me to smile. And a day later,...
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