Did someone say prizes? Well, yes I did. You could win a sketchbook,
OR drawing materials,
OR Illustrator Day Keynote Speaker, Salley Mavor's Golden Kite Winning Book
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How? You might ask...how could I win one of these great prizes?
You can help me publicize NESCBWI's Illustrator Day event.
1. Share this blog post on facebook and tag me so I know you did it.
2. Tweet or retweet this blog post and other info about the event with the hashtag #illustratorday.
I'll put all of your names and tweet handles in a box and pick out names until the prizes are gone- from now until:
ILLUSTRATOR DAY!
When: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Time: 12:30-6:00
Where: Emma Blood French Auditorium (The French Building) on the New Hampshire Institute of Art campus in Manchester, NH.
The schedule for Illustrator Day 2011 will be as follows:
12:30-1:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome
1:15-2:15 Keynote: Salley Mavor, Golden Kite Winner 2011
15 min break
2:30-3:30 Carol Goldenberg, Award Winning Book Designer
30 min set up break
4:00-4:45 Repeat of Carlyn Beccia and Jennifer Morris' Digital Painting Duels from NESCBWI Spring 2011 Conference
15 min break
5:00-6:00 continued Digital Painting Duels
Registration Fees for SCBWI Members and Students: $50 all day
Sarah Stern says one of the reasons Salley Mavor's
POCKET FULL OF POSIES won this year's Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration is that every single page is beautifully crafted and embroidered, lovingly and carefully worked on for years at a time.
Some quotes from Salley's acceptance speech:
It is a great honor to have my work recognized this way.... Since my first book, THE WAY HOME, was published 20 years ago, I've felt like an outsider paddling upstream—with a needle and thimble in a stream of watercolors. Now I feel I'm floating down a stream of possibilities.
Some people Salley wanted to thank:
Margaret Raymo, her editor, who was patient while Salley worked, sometimes for a year at a time, without showing Margaret anything.
Salley's husband, who has encouraged her work and never suggested she get a "real" job.
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Quotes from Salley's about her art style, which she calls fabric relief, and how she began to create in fabric:
I say I am part of the "slow art movement."
Machines are no help, everything is done by hand.
Growing up crayons, were never enough... I'd spend hours creating scenes and clothing for my miniature dolls.
At RISD she rediscovered her love of 3D art and had teachers that encouraged her to work outside of the yoke of traditional illustration mediums. It's during this time Salley taught herself to embroider.
Salley is an active blogger and I love the photos she posts. Check them out
here. Her work can be found in a touring exhibit AND you can even learn how to do fabric relief by picking up her book, FELT WEE FOLK.
Textile art and children's books seem like a natural combination, but for some reason this medium comprises a smaller percentage of children's picture books. Salley Mavor's artwork in In The Heart
takes this medium to a high standard. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Salley learned how to sew as a child and has been developing her fabric relief technique since then. Her illustrations seem to combine woolwork, fabric relief, stumpwork, found objects, creativity and inventiveness.
Salley's pictures are a pleasure to look at. Her work is inspirational to those who enjoy textile art. Looking at her illustrations is enough to make you get your needles and scissors out.
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I've always loved Salley Mavor's work. And now, there is a wonderful blog post on
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast about her and her work, with an interview, and about a bazillion really wonderful photos of her fabric/needlework illustrations.
Go see!
(P.S. I didn't ask permission to share this - hopefully no one will be mad at me. I was just so excited to show you!)
That's it. Go enjoy your day.
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, arranged and illustrated with needlework by Salley Mavor, Houghton Mifflin, $21.99, ages 4-8, 72 pages. With needle and thread, snippets of felt, and objects from the craft drawer, Mavor sews to life the enchanting world of nursery rhymes. Embroidered scenes illustrate 65 poems, from the familiar, "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," to the lesser known "Rain on the Green Grass." Designed like intricate folktale art, every scene leads the eye around the page to find little treasures, a bean stalk twirling up from the grass around a roof awning or a wheel barrow that rolls on a button and is brimming with tiny felt pies. In many scenes, felt dolls with wooden bead heads are laid down and placed just-so, making pages look like something a child would arrange in casual play. (Readers may even be tempted to try to lift one off the page.) At times the scenes are almost painterly, as in a poem about a wise old owl who lived in an oak. An owl sits perched on a sprawling oak, its plumage sewn in Vs of tans, purples and blues. On every branch hangs a tiny acorn or two, as leaves in greens and blue appear to flutter in a breeze.
In my favorite scene, sewn for "Ring around the Roses," dolls hold hands around a green doily stitched with roses, their bodies poised as if frozen in dance. Mavor's details astound the eye: delicate stitches swirl around clothing or a couch to suggest intricate textiles. Others are knotted, coiled, chained or sewn in rows to suggest textures on rock, dirt or plants. She sews in details that suggest the literal as well as the imagined. In a poem about two sisters who disagree whether coffee or tea is better, the two stare sidelong at each other under leafy trees, which at the top morph into a cat and bird who are bickering too. No rhyme is modestly illustrated, making this as much a treasury of art as of rhymes.
Humpty Dumpty and Friends: Nursery Rhymes for the Young at Heart, selected and illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko, Tundra Books, $17.95, ages 3-6, 24 pages. Four and Twenty tailors parade around a snail shell, carrying pincushions on their backs, spools in their hands and sewing needles like batons in this brilliantly crafted redo of 20 Mother Goose rhymes. Lipchenko, who illustrated last year's quirky Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, fills the pages with so many imaginative details, from birds holding spectacles to a drummer boy wearing a colander hat, that you find yourself lingering long after the rhyme is read. Every rhyme is told in its traditional verse, but is illustrated in new and fantastical ways -- the giant Robin the Bobbin who ate all the good people of his town is shown plopped on his bottom in the town's courtyard, holding a plate filled with a butcher, church and cow, as he plucks another cow off the ground to eat. In some illustrations, characters from different rhymes are brought together into one whimsical scene. One of my favorites mixes "What Little Boys Are Made Of?" with "Fishes Swim." In this picture, you see a girl and
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Once again, dear P, we share a passion for wonderfull stuff and Salley Mavor's work is
spectacular.
Thanks for this head's up.
How patient Salley must be. Her work is "Spectacular." So fun to see other peoples imagination and talent. Thank you for sharing.
Marilyn h
Thanks for sharing this! What a great visual read!
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