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By: Viviane Schwarz,
on 6/18/2015
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I just sent off my artwork to be auctioned off for
this excellent fundraiser in aid of Bath Festivals:
This is your chance to own a unique piece of original art by one of the UK’s best and most popular illustrators. Come along on the night to bid on one of several framed pieces of art – each depicting the famous Bath Children’s Literature Red Chair.
Amazing artists including including Chris Riddell (Goth Girl), Ben Cort(Aliens love Underpants), Nick Sharratt (The Story of Tracey Beaker), Korky Paul (Winnie the Witch), Alison Jay (Welcome to the Zoo), Michael Foreman (War Game) and Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo) have all donated pieces featuring their own, entertaining interpretation of the Festivals’ iconic red storytelling chair.
Help secure the future of the Bath Festivals internationally renowned programme of popular Festivals and be in with a chance of acquiring a piece of artwork to treasure for your family, school or business.
An Online Auction of many more Artworks will be launched on the night.
My picture is painted using all materials I have picked for the art lessons and workshops I'll be giving soon via
The Kraken Studio - all cheap stuff but really nice.
Go and admire the rest, there are some Mighty Fine Red Chairs to be had.
I did a rather big guest blog over at Picture Book Makers about my series of interactive books featuring cats.
I’ve been working as a picture book writer and artist for about fifteen years now – that is, as a published one. I’ve been making books all my life, pretty much. Before I could write, I drew and dictated them. My mother pierced bundles of my stories with a cast iron hole punch, and she said: “Behold the strength of your mother’s arms.” My father gave me binders to keep them in and said: “What are you going to make next?”
A page from my diary.
I was surrounded by books about everything that anyone in the family had ever wanted to know. Our walls were lined with bookshelves. My parents took me to the library weekly to take out as many as we could carry. It was awesome. I taught myself to read very early, because I had the notion that I could find anything I would ever need in books.
I was sure that I needed a cat.
Read the rest at Picture Book Makers.
I'm making animated GIFs of all my novelty books.
Please send help, or cookies, or say well done or something.
If you think that having books published means that people do all your promo for you, boo you are wrong. Almost all of us need to sort out our own author pictures, websites, reading tours and whatnot.
In good news, the basement now has a light tent.
MORE SOON.
Good News Everyone!
My Cat books have been co-editioned in a few more countries... look at that! Even my native Germany, at last. My parents will be delighted.
Yep, this one is out soon....
I'm furnishing another room inside my latest book full of cats. They have A LOT of furniture this time, and I keep having to invent ways to make it.
I figured it would be OK for once to collage in some copyright-free files, checked the copyright, double checked... yep, they were all free to be used commercially, and altered... but only with attribution. NO!! And I'd already worked in a bunch. That's what I get for taking shortcuts...
I grabbed the spare IKEA shelf that's been in the corridor for weeks, waiting to be chucked out, slapped it into the scanner and replaced all the copyrighted wood with that.
I think I deserve a snack now.
And then I need to digitally fake some printed cardboard to turn into boxes for the cats' box room, because the shops only had boring boxes today. ART IS DIFFICULT.
By the way, my third book of cats features SMELLS.
I'm busy painting cats.
I'd like to credit my editor Lucy Ingrams for realising that Tiny cat's favourite toy would always have to be a Tiny Tiny cat.
It's high time to paint the new cat book. I decided to paint all the characters first this time because they will have to be sent off to be drum-scanned. The rest of the book I can scan myself on my flatbed scanner at home, but the characters are painted on rough watercolour paper, and that doesn't scan right unless done on industrial grade equipment.
This is a photo of my first notes of the rules for painting the new character - a rather lively violet puppy. It is harder to paint than the cats because its body is more jointed, and it needs to be very cute, so its head is bigger and rounder than I'd normally paint it. More than half the time it goes very wrong. So I'll fill a few more sheets with dog exercises before I start on the actual artwork, otherwise I'll just use up all the good watercolour paper on lumpy puppies.
The puppy is painted with two different brushes and my fingers, which is another complication. All the cat characters have their own brush and that's that, but brushwork looks too sophisticated for the puppy. It needs to be a bit smudgy and clumsy. So my fingers are going to be dyed violet for the next few weeks.
I'll go off to Australia for a month in late February, and I need to finish this book before that.
It should work out... I just need to get back into painting. Today I made some warm-up paintings of dinosaurish beasts. As you can see, I'm a bit stuck on boring poses and all the parts don't quite hang together yet. That'll settle within a few days, as usual.
I do actually have an idea for a book about dinosaurs, by the way, but it's unlikely to happen any time soon, I have other plans for 2013.
I am working on the third cat book today. Here's my desk:
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| Blades, paper, glue, dog |
And here's a bit of the most complicated page:
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| They are doomed |
I am pleased with the book, it's at least as funny as the other two, and it's got as many flaps as both of them together, possibly more.
My work room is full of nice things now, here are two random bits:
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| Mechanical bird and home-assembled Recesky camera |
...my third book of cats!
INCOMING!!!
My desk is already covered in ink.
HOORAY!
Weekend! I spend a lovely afternoon working at the dinner table, with boyfriend and his laptop also there, working as well. It made me remember how nice it can be to have someone else working in the same room.
I plotted most of the new Cat book. I'm pleased with it - it's funny, with some novelty elements that I'm really proud of... but the one thing missing is the great big amazing bit of fun towards the end that makes you want to READ IT ALL AGAIN NOW. I'll think of it soon.
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| from my notebook |
My housemate went to Edinburgh and left me some chocolate brownies on my favourite plate.
So now the house is quiet, and I am working on this and that. Three books are in the works right now, not counting the big comic which is wrapping up nicely at last. I can't say that I'm completely organised, but I have tidied the studio, and I start my working days just picking a project on a whim, working on it and trusting that this way everything gets done.
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| Pen Guardians at the studio. |
I just got an email from the University School in Bloomington, Indiana USA. They have been reading my books, and decided they wanted to play too. Here are the results.
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| Roger Federer. Why didn't I think of that? |
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| YES!!!! |
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| It's a President Simulator. HOORAY! |
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| What? BRILLIANT! |
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| **TRANSFORM** |
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What the heck is is T
I finally got around to assembling the pieces of this artwork in the real world, now they can be framed.
Hooray!
Also I watched The Life Aquatic yesterday, and I liked it actually a bit more than I did when I saw it in cinema. It made more sense, maybe, after a few years of diving after my own Jaguar Sharks. Thus, I am listening to Seu Jorge while working.
Stitch London is running a competition for some of my books!
Which is very cool indeed. Stitch London, in any case, is cool anyway, and if you like to knit, or crochet, or any such crafty thing, you should really join them, because it's free and fun and generally rather a good idea.
I just picked up a big roll of library posters from the post office! They are so nice!
One of them goes in a frame for my room, the others go to friends if they want them. So get in touch, friends!
I'm having a late lunch break - oh, actually, very late lunch break... it's one of those days that needed to be laid out and mapped out on paper before breakfast. I am busy. Yesterday I spent brainstorming a new book with John, and in the process covered the lounge in paper. I still need to write up the pitch we came up with before the day is over. Tomorrow I'll edit another chapter of graphic novel, and then I'll need to seriously get ready for my new job as associate lecturer at Plymouth University. Rah! And I just arranged which artworks to sell from "There are No Cats in this Book" - Pretty much all of them, as it turns out. More about that soon.
Launching "There are NO CATS in this Book"on the 15th!
Catch your copy at Review, or just stand around and smile politely! if you want to come to the actual launch, just so I vaguely know what's going on... no need to warn me if you just want to come to the signing of course. I'll also happily be signing at the launch, naturally. Hepp!
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It looks really great!
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