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I was totally surprised to wake up to all this snow this morning (as it wasn't in the forecast). It was great to show it to Henry who, at two, probably doesn't remember the snow from last year. Big flakes are still drifting down from the sky and off the roofs and trees. These pictures are kind of deceiving, as we live in the city but happily we're on the outskirts and some things have yet to be paved. It's so strange to look across this lake the size of a sea and know that New York is out there somewhere as well as Niagara Falls. Living here takes the edge off the frequent homesickness I get.
Currently I'm midway through the first twelve pages of Maggy Kettle, which will, I think, serve as a preview. I am just about to put on an audiobook (the Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens) and shut out the world to work on it.
(special thanks to J Torres for editing this post and correcting its lack of realistic expectations....)
The Krampus is a demonic creature who accompanies St. Nicholas during Christmas to punish bad children. Feared by the children of Eastern Europe, Krampus is known to thrash the bad ones with birch branches, and is liable to scoop them into his basket for a short trip to the underworld!
His grim legend is the theme for the Krampusnacht 2010 show at Resistor gallery in Toronto. Shown here is Jessica Fortner's Krampus illustration titled "Eine Kleine Krampusnachtmusik".
For process pics and photos of the Krampusnacht 2010 opening night check Jessica's blog: http://www.jessicafortner.com/blog/
This is a pretty common scene in our house but this is the first time it's been captured on digital film... I can actually get a lot done this way. Many of my work days are ten hours long and Julie has similar days so this helps Henry feel a part of things and I think he's learned not to make any additions.
I'm working on the Baba Yaga drawing here, which I just now finished the inks for. I'm thinking this will be the inaugural piece in the online print store I'm opening. Does anyone have any pieces they'd like to have as a print?
I'm taking a short reading break right now and then on to the colours. I just picked up the beautiful and enormous Charley Harper art book. It's wonderful and almost intoxicating.
Thanks so much for the kind birthday wishes everyone! You made the end of an otherwise gloomy week one of my best birthdays ever.
Prompted by
Stuart Immonen on Twitter I'm posting the current state of my studio. We live in a one hundred year old cottage on the Lakeshore in Toronto that has been converted for year round living. I have lately started using the portable easel because I really like the mobile nature of it.
Henry had a blast for his second Halloween, more so than he's first I think. We made it to four or five houses but I think he enjoyed the trick or treaters who came to our house, he stood fascinated by the zombies, vampires etc. and the chocolate....
We went to London Ontario this weekend, my first trip away since arriving in Toronto over a year ago. We went to a place in London called Wortley Village where Julie grew up, a great place. And I love the name more than I can say.
We had a great trip. I should do this more often, it gave me time to think about stuff like my projects and how to go forward, time I don't really have when I'm in the thick of things.
Henry had a big celebration tonight for his second birthday. He had a blast.
I'm hoping Henry has the same deep love of Autumn that I have. Julie can work on Winter.
Picture by
Glendon Mellow.
Congratulations Julie! Julie, my wife, has just landed a job teaching French in Brampton, just north of here. We just came through a year of her in school and it's been tough. She had less time and had to rely on my meagre income but now things are looking up.
Julie's going to be an amazing teacher.
Deadly Sins: Sloth Meets Greed
Latest installment of my ongoing My Woodland, My Nightmare series titled Deadly Sins: Sloth Meets Greed.
See some pictures of the sculpting process:
http://www.jessicafortner.com/progress/process-lumberjack/
http://www.jessicafortner.com/progress/process-sloth-in-the-making/
Jes
This is Henry looking down through the glass floor on top of the CN Tower,
1,815 ft high.....
I was kidnapped yesterday ( by family and friends) and forced to spend the day at
Ontario Place which, I'll admit, is a pretty mind boggling place. It's so big and kids are having so much fun that it gives you the exact same or very close to the feeling of when you're very young and an amusement park seems to go on forever. We went with Paul and Liz Linsdale, both noted researchers in microbiology, and their kids Evie and Duncan who are great with Henry.I also sketched a lot on my iPod brushes app. Funny how the technologies I was worried would end drawing and reading actually make draw and read more than ever.
Julie, Henry and myself all packed in the car and drove out of Toronto to the
David Dunlap Observatory on Richmond Hill this evening to watch the
Perseid meteor shower. They were amazing, the whole night was amazing. Hundreds of people laying on their backs in total darkness on a grassy hill in front of a sprawling observatory. Every time a bright silver ribbon flashed across the sky the crowd would ooh and aah and then laugh. I didn't have the best camera and couldn't figure out how to take night time photos with it so I took these shots in and around one of the observatories. Henry slept through the whole thing but I was glad he was there in any case.
A piece I did for my new business card. It is unofficially titled "A Clockwork Hot Dog".
If you would like to see some work in progress pictures, check out my site.
www.jessicafortner.com
Cheers!
Jes :)
So, this is really four pieces of news all in one post. First, Maurice Vellekoop finally has a website! He’s one of my all-time favourites, and I’m delighted to see he finally has a presence online (it’s probably hearsay, but a friend of a friend of a friend of Maurice’s once told me several years ago he wasn’t fond of the internet and had resisted having a site. See, now I’m just spreading rumours! Don’t repeat a word of this!).
Second: he’s also started a blog this year. Don’t miss this scans of the Polaroids he took when covering an event for Vogue back in 1994.
Third (seemingly unrelated, but stick with me): Anita Kunz, another favourite illustrator, also started a blog two years ago, and embarrassed to say I’m just finding it now.
But wait, it gets better! Anita and Maurice are having an art show together in Toronto in two days! TWO DAYS FROM TODAY! It’s killing me to know that I will miss this. Mind you, if I did attend and managed to work up the nerve to speak to either of them, I’d doubtless blurt out something idiotic, alienate myself as a weirdo fanboy, and possibly spill wine on them.
It’s called The Naughty Show (personally, I’d have pushed for VelleKunz, but that’s just me) and will feature over a hundred nudes by Kunz, and originals from Vellekoop’s newest pinup book.
Details for you lucky folks who can make it:
ONE800 Gallery, 800 Dundas Street West, Toronto — June 30: 7:00 – 9:00
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Henry gotr sent home from daycare this week with a "goopy eye" so we took him to a very kid friendly walk in clinic at St. Joseph's Hospital here in Toronto. Unfortunately I for got my sketchbook. Luckily I had this Moleskine notebook on me which I filled up with big, fat brushpen drawings. And Henry was fine, of course.
Here's a photo I took yesterday as i biked from Etobicoke to downtown Toronto. It's an amazingly straight forward and easy ride, cutting along the waterfront pretty much the whole way. It took me about an hour and a half one way. On the way back I ran into a thunderstorm and had my wife rescue me. Please don't judge me..... I am very sore today.
Finally got my bike out! Thanks Dave for getting it all fixed up for me. Toronto is an ideal city for biking, in my experience anyway. I'm from Halifax which is either rocky or hilly depending on where you are.
It's strange biking downtown along the Lakeshore, because it feels rural almost the whole way with the spire of the CN Tower always in the distance.I don't have a licence and never learned how to drive so bikes are a pretty essential part of my lifestyle. There is a great cycling map for Toronto right
here.
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Brian from Toronto, in the interest of full disclosure, are you the same Brian who wrote the original article in for the Jewish Tribune entitled, "Could This Book Turn Your Child Against Israel" and "An Open Letter to Ontario's Education Minister?"
Brian Henry, a parent and the writer of the article believes that although 'one book by itself is never going to make any child any sort of bigot. Along with other things though, yes, it could.' He add that schools should be 'a politics-free zone.'
What is your source for concluding, "Every school board in the province that has independently examined
The Shepherd's Granddaughter has concluded that the book is problematic?" Are you the parent who is asking that this book be removed from the OLA Forest of Reading list and are filing a formal complaint?
May I ask if you have read the book? I will admit that I have not. I am awaiting an Inter-library loan and will read it. However, I am opposed to banning books on principle. Many of the same criticisms of
The Shepherd's Granddaughter were leveled at
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak prior to having it removed from Toronto schools. I have read this book and found it to be balanced and fair.
Schools cannot be "a politics-free zone," in my opinion, if we are to raise healthy, well-rounded, critical thinkers. There is a huge difference between addressing controversial issues and promoting political agendas. The
Toronto District School Board policy, which you cited states that controversy is part of life. You imply that some parties have a political agenda which they are promoting through "slipping"
The Shepherd's Granddaughter into the Red Maple Award Program. I do not see what the author, the Ontario Library Association, or the Ontario schools would have to gain by promoting a political agenda through a novel for children.
As for making sure a book is "good" before encouraging children to read it, I searched a number of reviews. You are welcome to read them in their entirety. The links are included.
Quill and Quire is negative about the complexity of the subplots.
...this novel has enough material for a whole series of books, and it gets overwhelmed by a series of underdeveloped subplots...that fragment the narrative’s focus and undermine its realism.
However, this respected magazine also lauds the author for her attempt to foster peace.
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter is a well-intentioned, very earnest narrative that aims to foster international harmony by educating young readers.
The
Jane Addams Peace Association chose
The Shepherd's Granddaughter as an honor book for older children for the 56th Jane Addams Children's Book.
In 2009, the Canadian Library Association chose
The Shepherd's Granddaughter as a Book of the Year for children, according to the
School Library Journal.
This is an award winning book (USBBY Outstanding International Books selection, selected for the Cooperative Chidlren's Book Cente
In a story reminiscent of the challenge to Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak -- a challenge which has been covered extensively on this blog, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Shepherd's Granddaughter has "sparked outrage in the Jewish community." Some school trustees are demanding the book be removed from reading lists and libraries.
The Shepherd's Granddaughter, a children's novel about a Palestinian teen growing up outside of a Palestinian village in the West Bank in the midst of the Middle East conflict, was written by Canadian author Anne Laurel Carter. The book is told through the child Amani's voice. As with Three Wishes, the controversy came long after the publication of the book and was highlighted by its nomination by the Ontario Library Assocation for the Red Maple Award, a program intended to foster reading skills for students, in this case for grades seven and eight.
The Jewish Tribune cited negative comments made towards Jews on Goodreads.com.
Critics feel the novel — told from the Palestinian viewpoint with characters' opinions about the conflict ranging from peaceful resistance to militancy, with Amani choosing non-violence — could result in discrimination.
The Jewish Tribune recently wrote an article entitled, "Could This Book Turn Your Child Against Israel" which cites hurtful comments made toward Jews on Goodreads.com. Brian Henry, a parent and the writer of the article believes that although "one book by itself is never going to make any child any sort of bigot. Along with other things though, yes, it could." He add that schools should be "a politics-free zone."
B'nai Brith Canada believes the book "demonizes" Israelis and portrays Palestinians as innocent.
At least one Toronto trustee wants The Shepherd's Granddaughter gone from schools. James Pasternak, a trustee with the Toronto District School Board was quoted by CanWest as saying,
The book is really inappropriate to be presented in this way, in a school setting. It doesn't present a balanced or fair reflection of that conflict zone. It's a biased book that borders on political propaganda.
Sheila Ward, also a Toronto trustee has said she expects people will accuse her of censorship but that she would "move heaven and Earth to have The Shepherd's Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves." She added, "If it means I will no
...to let you know I am on day 9 of the tour and the whole carry-on-only thing has been a huge success. I've done laundry twice and that's all I'll need before I head home on Friday. Haven't run out of any product yet, though the tiny bottle of hairspray is almost out and I may need to stop somewhere to grab a bottle to get me through Toronto.
And speaking of Toronto, please come to my signing (along with Becca Fitzpatrick) Wed, March 3, 7pm, at:
Indigo
Yonge & Eglinton
2300 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 1E4 Canada
(416)544-0049
Purchased to commemorate the Olympics.
How I walk around town.....
The Toronto comicon.
A seat in the financial district.
Where my Grandfather on the Orchard side used to work, the stock exchange. I never met him,he retired to Florida, living on a yacht.
Wish I could've captured the lovely snow as well.
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In a story reminiscent of the challenge to Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak -- a challenge which has been covered extensively on this blog, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Shepherd's Granddaughter has "sparked outrage in the Jewish community." Some school trustees are demanding the book be removed from reading lists and libraries.
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on 3/2/2010
Where my Grandfather on the Orchard side used to work, the stock exchange. I never met him,he retired to Florida, living on a yacht.
Wish I could've captured the lovely snow as well.
This is great. The colours are fantastic, so warm and yet a bit scary - a fantastic illustration
Thanks Tomas! So happy that you like it. It was a fun story to illustrate.
-Jes