Here’s the twelfth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
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Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 6
Here’s the sixth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
(The action on this one was really fun to draw.)
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 4
Here’s the fourth of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 3
Here’s the third of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 2
Here’s the second of thirteen images.
Standing Up to the Bullies by Ashley Kazery, commissioned by Learning A-Z, illustrated by me.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
Standing Up to the Bullies – Image 1
I’ve been quiet here lately because I’ve been working on a picture book. Learning A-Z commissioned me through Storybook Arts to illustrate a graded reader titled Standing Up to the Bullies, written by Ashley Kazery. I just finished the last image this afternoon. I’ll probably have a few minor edits before publication, but I’m more-or-less finished.
Here’s the first of thirteen images.
[Edit: I’ve updated the image. This is the final they’re using for the book.]
SCBWI Bulletin
I’ve just received an email telling me that one or more of my pieces will be used in the November/December 2014 issue of the SCBWI Bulletin. I’m not sure which pieces were chosen yet because I’ve sent them several recently, but it’s always nice to get into this publication. They’ve published me twice before. SCBWI stands for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is a publication for its members. Illustrators for their issues are chosen from submissions sent by their member illustrators and are paid a nominal fee for one-time publishing rights. It also gets me some exposure on a national level that I don’t normally get.
So, that’s very cool. I’ll post again when I find out which images they chose.
Sunflower Seedlings
Here are some photos of some sunflower seedlings I took just before I planted them last week.
Roses, Pumpkin Blossoms, Mums, and Woodsorrel
Macro Pumpkin Blossoms
Trivia:
These are male pumpkin blossoms.
Macro Nearly Wild Roses
Trivia:
The spider is known as a Daring Jumping Spider. It’s orange spots mean that it’s a fairly young one. The spots will turn white as it gets older. This type of spider is a hunter rather than a web weaver.
Macro White Roses
Macro Mums and Yellow Woodsorrel
Trivia:
Yellow Woodsorrel is edible.
I’d also like to mention that I like how you can now post multiple galleries to one post in WordPress. 🙂 Very useful.
Illustration Friday: Water
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find the Illustration Friday topic to be the one I suggested recently. I think I suggested it last week or the week before. And, yes, it’s mine because I was cited as the one who suggested it. It’s a little thing, but isn’t it cool?
So, that’s why my hits are unusually high today and probably will be all week. Yay! Welcome everyone from IF. Feel free to take a look around the site and comment on things. Make yourselves at home. Follow me if you like.
But now I’m sitting here with MY illustration topic as the one for the week. Which means I really should post something good. Initially I suggested the topic after photographing this image:
I really liked it and I thought “water” would make a great topic. But it’s hardly an illustration, is it? Well, maybe a photo illustration. Not exactly what Illustration Friday is all about, though.
I could also post one of several other water-related images I’ve created in the past.
Or I could point to the series of Rocks and Water photographs I took in Wisconsin this summer.
I really would like to give IF something new, though. Perhaps I could finish off this sketch which I started for the IF topic of “carry” but never finished.
Really, though, I’m afraid I won’t work on anything for IF because this week I have THINGS TO DO. The kids are off school several days in the coming week, I have to send out Halloween-themed art samples to potential clients before the end of the month, I need to meet with a web design client sometime next week, and I’m preparing all my stuff for the SCBWI conference on the 27th. I’m busy.
So, it may turn out that this week I’ll have nothing new to contribute to IF, even though Penelope was kind enough to choose my topic.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 