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You might have noticed that the blog has been left with the lights still on, but untended lately....
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Award-winning children’s illustrator Terry Widener critiques Wednesday
Baseball, not illustration critiques, has been in the air all week. So we’re repurposing a...
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Final art by Loren Long for Love by Matt de la Peña (PenguinKids) The Boston Globe Caldecott...
Best children’s books of last year, according to…
Final art by Loren Long for Love by Matt de la Peña (PenguinKids) The Boston Globe Caldecott...
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Happy New Year, Wolves!
Author and elementary school teacher Julie Lake picture walks us through the art of Zhu...
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Wishing you a “Country Christmas”
One of Cynthia Rylant’s many picture books of Christmas,...
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The Girllustrators: Final workshop
GirllustrAhttps://youtu.be/6fl3ruTU1rk Pick an example of your art for your next postcard mailer...
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A picture book began with one little drawing: Girllustrators Workshop #3
It started with a doodle of a girl picking at a strand of string. The sketch turned into a...
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How the Girllustrators critique themselves and each other
“The next lesson will be on ‘critique,” says Girllustrator Lalena...
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Going from good to great
“Create an illustration based on the word, light,” says illustrator Marsha Riti....
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The journey of “Seed Man”
We know how the constraint is a necessary ingredient for any creative work’s eventual...
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Who is your child character (really)?
Join us for the live workshop on Thursday, April 26 with multi-award winning illustrator (and now...
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