This is it! The final cover proof for Ocean Soup arrived from Charlesbridge this week! Steve Swinburne's tide pool poems are hilarious, but you'll have to wait until Spring '10 to read them. In the mean time, tide pooling is a fantastic way to explore the intertidal zones and the hardy critters that reside there. A great website for kids to "See into the Sea" is at www.tidalzone.org!
This is an example of the small landscapes I've been doing lately. The morning marine layer across LA can be gloomy but it sure is pretty.
Pencil on Aristico hot press. 4" square
4 color letterpress print from the series "Love Song."
You can see the rest of the series at http://letterpresshabitat.blogspot.com. Then, scratch a note to a friend who is far away.
I'm almost finished painting a new picture book for Charlesbridge called Ocean Soup,Tide Pool Poems by Steve Swinburne. Here's a sneak peak of the finished spread for the poem "Hairy Doris" about a lovely shell-less gastropod. How odd!
Sunday, January 11, from 12:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. I'll be doing a workshop for 8-12 years old.
We'll combine concrete poetry with paper models to create a zoo unlike any other.
This is an 826LA workshop and takes place at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum.
Join us!
[UPDATE: I want to thank the FANTABULOUS kids who attended todays worksop! You are AWESOME! You made the talkiest, scariest, waddliest, crawliest, funniest, prettiest, wordiest managerie ever!]
Late...and dark...and stormy.
I've added a new set of sketches to my portfolio at Flickr.com. Most of the images are drawn from life but occacionally I run across an interesting face like the one posted here of mid-century book and font designer Werner Hebhuhn. Although he looks like a character from Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands, he's the designer of a cheerful Eisenhauer era Googie-style font called Amper Sans.
Wiggle and Waggle has been named one of the Bank Street College of Education "Best Books of the Year"!
