time travels
Time to play that Talking Heads song again: how did I get here? Can it BE 30 years already? Yes, it can. I went to RISD for my 30th reunion this weekend, and while the flashbacks were few, the chance to see familiar faces was grand. My fellow time travelers, Ged Kenslea, David Hicks, and Madeline Sorel, checked in with me here. So much is new, it was a bit disorienting. Back when we were students, Providence was a seedy mafia town. Now, it’s been rebranded as the Venice of New England, or something. OMG, gondolas! Thankfully, some things don’t change. Carr Haus is still a...
Read Morebook peeps
Wooooo! This just arrived via Charlesbridge Publishing. Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins is now published in Korea! It’s a thrill to see my illustrations paired with another language, and to know the book is getting a wider audience. And in other news: Seven Days of Daisy is scheduled to be published by Down East next May! My wee book about the passage of time, island-style, has come a long way since I wrote it back in 2002. Now Nana needs a walker and lives in assisted living in Portland. But some things don’t change, such as Daisy’s fascination with the little things. A...
Read Morepools and schools
School’s out! Whoooohooooo! Now’s the time to play in tide pools. This is my page for the Peaks Island Childrens’ Workshop’s 2010 Coloring Book, which will raise funds for it’s fantastic program, where children play and learn to be stewards of nature. Like reaching into the shallow waters of a tide pool and finding their imaginations run deep. Cupping a hermit crab in their hand, but returning it gently to its habitat. Of course, in my view, there’s a mermaid sporting an anemone head dress… Just before school got out, Marty and I took a short blast...
Read Moresteampunk chronicles
I’m a proud member of the Maine Illustrators Collective, a group of illustrators that call Maine home, or pretty darn close. This Friday we’ll be showing our version of the theme Steampunk, a topic that seems to come up with increasing frequency. I happened to be thumbing through Maine Magazine and came across a sweet little ad for Portland Velocipede. Voila, my idea came to life. Hence, my rough thumbnail of a speedy cyclist with gears flying… Always in search of mo’ better reference, I got Someone to pose on a bicycle with appropriate determination: And because this...
Read Morelooking out looking in
I am excited to be part of a group show: Looking Out Looking in at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Curated by Madeline Sorel, it is a tribute to both Women’s History Month and the art of portraiture by 25 women artists ranging in age from eight to eighty. My pastel of Amelia Earhart was done for a textbook story. She’s one of those heroines I can’t shake. I should see the movie, but not sure I want to. She can still keep flying in the clouds of my imagination. I did this drawing of Johnny Cash as a personal project. Ring of Fire plays in my head way too often....
Read Morecuriosity counts
Every now and then a good shindig comes along that brings my favorite people out of the woodwork. In this case, it was a surprise party for Kirsten Cappy, saucy diva of Curious City, who has celebrated children’s books far and wide, making fans galore in her wake. We were asked to create an interpretation of Kirsten for an instant show at Zero Station. Here’s mine, in which Her Loveliness sports a curious octopus ready to read. My daughter, Daisy, got into the act, too: Marty doesn’t usually do portraits, but his airbrush piece says it all: Here Kirsten shares her glee with...
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