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Dan Andreasen

Seen Art?

National Picture Book Week

The same hard-charging elementary schools that encourage early chapter book reading also offer Art Appreciation classes and Metropolitan Museum field trips. Maybe Art Appreciation could include the informal appreciation of picture books.

Eva Ibbotson, Children’s Book Author, Dies at 85

ERIC MOLINSKY'S Iphone sketch blog

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Unpopular Science

Christoph Niemann's "Abstract City" Continued:

• The Haunted Household

• Come Rain or Come Shine

• Good Night and Tough Luck

• New York Cheat Sheets

• The Boys and the Subway

Alexander Anderson Jr.

creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle

"The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!" (Abrams ComicArts) slideshow

Line by Line: The Shadow Knows

An examination of shape, and the importance of understanding the essence of whatever you are about to draw.

Number six in a series on the basics of drawing, presented by the artist and author James McMullan

Director Lee Unkrich and screenwriter Michael Arndt discuss the final film in the Toy Story trilogy.

Leo Lionni

Meet Uri Shulevitz on Sunday, October 24, as part of the Katonah Museum Family Day.

Illustration from “How I Learned Geography” © 2008 Farrar Straus Giroux Kids Books
Story and illustrations by Uri Shulevitz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED EMBERLEY!

thank you to contrarymary

Halloween Picture Books: Wherefore the Style?

Bob Barner

Readers' Letters

Part IIIllustration by Nickelas Johnson

Piu-Piu

(Thanks, STEL.LA!)

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

There’s Good News and Good News About Picture Books

at Educating Alice

Illustration by Greg Clarke found at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/weekinreview/10picbook.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

(Thanks to Jody Sitts and Jennifer Thermes!)

Country Fair covers by John Hanna

additional covers here

Halloween II

http://www.carlkleiner.com/

Natascha S. Rosenberg

portfolio & shop

fantastic!

Halloween

How to illustrate a book - Part 1 from Lynne Chapman and Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.

PART 2

Thank you to DEB MELMON

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Readers respond to "Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children"

Top Ten things Illustrators can do to make Highlights Happy

start nominating books

"Hugo Cabret"

Scheduled for Dec. 2011 release

Call to Artist(s): They Draw and Cook is getting published

Deadline for consideration is Oct. 10th

Illustration by S. Britt, from
Over in the Hollow.

S. Britt prints for sale here.

Thank you to mod mom

Piet Grobler