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Acceptance speech for the Irma s. and James H Black Award. Article about Dilys Evans and The Original Art exhibition. Article for The Art of the Picture Book, edited by Lawrence Sipe. Article for the book, Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art.
2007 Caldecott Speech. Acceptance speech for the Irma s. and James H Black Award. Article about Dilys Evans and The Original Art exhibition. Article for The Art of the Picture Book, edited by Lawrence Sipe. Article for the book, Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art.
Oct 16, 2023 · Materials 101. A friend suggested I post about the materials that I use. Okay. One of the most important lessons I learned while in art school was to use high quality materials. Cheap paper, brushes and paints will do you no good. The materials I use now are the same ones I used as a student. I’ve….
In picture books, the pictures work in concert with the text in a way that is unique among art forms. Picture books tell stories in a visual language that is rich and multi-leveled, sophisticated in its workings despite its often deceptively simple appearance.
Writings. Caldecott Speech 1992. Caldecott Speech 2002. Caldecott Speech 2007. Article for The Art of the Picture Book. Article for Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art. Article for The Art of Reading. Article for The Horn Book. Cricket, 1979.
Caldecott Speech 1992. David Wiesner’s Caldecott Medal. Acceptance Speech for Tuesday. Bufo marinus, the Australian cane toad, secrets a toxic substance when it is attacked. This substance is lethal to nearly all predators, including dogs and other large animals, and it can have an incapacitating effect on humans.
Phone Home. Weirdest. Job. Ever. In 1982, the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released. History was made. In 1984, my agent, Dilys Evans, got a phone call from representatives of Steven Spielberg. They were looking for a children’s book illustrator to work on a top-secret project with Mr. Spielberg.
Oct 14, 2023 · The Beginning. To begin these posts I am going back to the moment I entered the world of children’s books. Near the end of my senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design, Trina Schart Hyman came to school to talk about being a children’s book illustrator.
Be Afraid. My previous post was about the amazing ability of a printer to reproduce full color paintings by breaking them down into four separate color inks. Now, I will talk about the horror of pre-sep. Once upon a time, full color offset printing was too expensive to use on all books.
The story can’t be diverted by tangential action or caught up in imagery for its own sake. One of the hardest parts of creating a picture book is deciding what to leave out. I am often heartbroken over omitting great images or sequences that, in the end, were not central to the story or did not move the story forward.
