Rudyard Kipling’s father John Lockwood Kipling was an art teacher, art school director, museum curator and the first artist to illustrate The Jungle Book stories (volumes 1 and 2) that his son wrote. Then, like good tales...
Read MoreWalt Disney knew he had much to learn from children’s books and children’s book art (just as children’s book illustrators know they have much to learn from 80 years worth of Disney animators.) Dumbo...
Read MoreNot a kind portrayal of the creator of Mickey Mouse, with a fascinating comparison between Disney with his studio — and J. Edgar Hoover with his F.B.I. Seething over the strike by most of his animators in the 1940s, he...
Read MoreChildren’s book illustrators — draw your pets. That’s our message for today. He really did have a pet mouse while working at Laugh-O-Gram, his commercial animation studio in Kansas City. And when Universal...
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Children’s book illustrators and aspiring illustrators were among those who tuned in from...
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An exciting and fun new course on Udemy created and taught by Cindy Wider.
