Interior Illustration 9 of 18
This is one of my favorite illustrations from this project. A little girl dressed as La Catrina for Dia de Muertos.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
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Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 8 of 18
These two dancers are performing the traditional Mexican Hat Dance. It is Mexico’s national dance and is often performed during Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Again, this is a very small illustration. That’s why the faces are mostly featureless.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 7 of 18
Salsa dancing is a very Latin American tradition. This illustration is actually very small on the page, so that’s why the dancers are mostly faceless.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 6 of 18
Potatoes are a Latin American food. They originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Here’s potatoes, fries, and potato chips.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 5 of 18
Here’s another example of a Latin American food for this book project. Chips and guacamole with a half avocado.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 4 of 18
A chocolate bar next to some cocoa beans and a cocoa pod. I hadn’t realized how big these things were until I looked them up. This illustration appears in the book next to a paragraph about chocolate being an example of a food grown in Latin America.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 3 of 18
To get the full effect on this one, imagine it is hanging from one of the letters in the page header. It was tied, if I remember right, to the bottom of an “E”. There are three different depictions of pinatas in this book, all of them star-shaped.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 2 of 18
This one is a very simple, and it was very small on the page. Just a smiling boy.
Let’s Learn About Hispanic Heritage
Interior Illustration 1 of 18
Here’s the first interior illustration for Positive Promotion’s Hispanic Heritage book. The original art specs called for this illustration to read “Hurray for Hispanic Heritage” in English, which was also the header for this page. I thought that seemed a little redundant and missed a good opportunity to show some Spanish language in an otherwise completely English manuscript. It seemed appropriate given the subject.
Since I don’t speak Spanish, I used Google Translate to find the equivalent phrase in Spanish and gave the client the option to have me use that phrase instead. To be safe, I also warned the client to double-check whether my translation was correct, but I think it’s right. They didn’t correct me, anyway. 🤞
Squirrel Book 10 of 10
The last interior illustration in this project is a happy ending illustration. We’ve got the sun setting over a fictionalized version of the author’s house. She and her husband are working in the yard. She’s waving at Rocky and Sylvia up in a tree overlooking everything. Everything is as it should be. A happy ending.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 