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They say some people match their dogs.
I wish I had a dog so I could know what I look like.
I so often enjoy looking behind the camera at the world.
For an upcoming project, I was asked to make a kid portrait of myself.
A selfie? A sketchie? A skelphie?
I approached it the same way I approach a new character.
Sketch a zillion bundle of possibles,
then hone in on who that character is.
So.. who am I?
What do I look like anyway?
What do I feel like?
What would I look like if I combined me now
with some of my favorite things from childhood?
Books. Overalls. Sunshine. Rain.
Puddle boots.
This is the girl I settled on. Bookish. Hopeful. Happy.
Not afraid to get messy.
Here's to finding your happy self this week, my friends.
It's National Library Week.
How glad I am for libraries this week and always.
How rich it is to have a place to borrow books,
to load up on research, art, music, words, and stories!
How glad I am for the staff at my library,
gracious souls who do not even sniff
when the wildebeests and I emerge
with a mountain of books to take home.
How patient they are with the noise and flamboyance
of kid-ruckus and story hour,
even when small bears and dragons and pirates
weave and wail beyond their story circles.
How perfectly like a matchmaker
is our children's librarian,
always hunting down treasure
to help her patrons fall in love with reading.
Happy Library Week!
Our latest librarian-found treasures:
When Mischief Came To Town by Katrina Nannestad
Hector and Hummingbird by Nicholas John Frith
Tea Party In the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi
Detective Gordon: the First Case by Ulf Nilsson
Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
Happy birthday, Beverly Cleary.
Thank you for Henry, Ramona, and Beezus.
Thank you for Klickitat Street.
Thank you for your books.
Because you always wanted to save 10% in my
shopwith the code Spring16.
Birthday cards? Wall art?
Sight word flashcards, anyone?
A gift for your teacher, your pre-K, your kindie...
A gift for your walls...
My Spring Sale goes through April 30. Cheers!
My adorably rogue-ish nephew played a pirate in Peter and Wendy a few weeks back.
His mama asked if I'd like to try some Peter Pan art for the bake sale.
Tink. Hook. The ship. The acorn kiss. Peter and Wendy.
Enough for a whole fleet of fairies and lost boys,
and their cupcakes, too.
Avast and Blimey! What a yardarm of sweet pirate bounty.
Books!
Peter Pan by J. M. Barry, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Peter Pan retold by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson illustrated by Mary Blair
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Fairies and the Quest for Neverland by Gail Carson Levine, illustrated by David Christiana
Small Business Saturday!
Thank you, friends, neighbors, you lovely folks all
who burst the coat buttons off our tiny downtown.
Cheers to you, supporters of the small!
Pip and Winnie helped all day.
Decorating the chalkboard was one of their important jobs.
The Holiday Bazaar held a treasury of beautiful things to be found-
handcrafted jewelry, rescued cashmere, shelves of books, felted creations,
art and prints by the Watsons (my dad Richard and my brother Jesse).
See the sight word cards in their handmade green and blue folios?
It felt strange, seeing them all lined up so soldierly after all this work.
I was kind of excited about the greeting cards and gicleé prints, too.
My heart feels squeezed up with gratefulness.
And just to keep the adventures rolling in,
I re-opened the Etsy Shop.
Birdy and Sugar Snack helped me with the photos.
Sight word art cards are in stock,
prints and cards are coming soon.
Have a look, if you like!
And thank you, my friends.
I'm warmed to the toes
by all of the support and love
I've had from so many of you.
Here's to warm toes,
new adventures,
and joy in each journey!
Hallo, who's there?
Halloween
Hallo, who?
Hallowhoot, and have a happy hoot!
Books:
Little Owl Lost - Chris Haughton
A Book of Sleep - Il Sung Na
Little Owl's Night - Divya Srinivasan
Peek-a-Who by Nina Laden
Owl Moon - Jane Yolen, John Schoenherr
Owl Babies - Martin Waddell, Patrick Benson
Owl at Home - Arnold Lobel
We like to masquerade in these parts.
Especially when learning our Pacific Northwest animals.
Especially when all fuzzed up about pumpkins and costumes.
I started with a few sketches,
the kids made their own beautiful batches,
and Voila!
Wildebeests, unite!
Need a quick costume this week?
I'm offering a few freebies for your personal or classroom use.
{Please note that these images are my original art.
They're not to be sold or passed off as anyone else's work.
Thanks!}
To use, just drag the image to your desktop,
print on card stock,
color at will!
Crayon, colored pencils or watercolor work just fine.
We also tried gouache and acrylic gel medium, for hoots.
Birdie asked if she could change her name to Owly-Whoo.
When you finish all that lovely color,
cut out and fix for wearing!
Our salmon puppet has a popsicle stick taped to his back.
Did you know sockeye salmon turn red when they spawn? I did not.
The wildebeests told me.
I guess this means they are learning something in the midst
of my art diversions.
Yarn or ribbon is an easy tie for the masks.
Hey, anything for a party, right?
Anything for a printable, coloring, educational, masquerade party!
That's right. We mask merry around these parts.
Happy hoots!
Books!
S is for Salmon - Hannah Viore
123 Moose! by Art Wolfe, ill. by Andrea Helman
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray, ill. by Kenard Pak
North - The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration, by Nick Dowson, ill. by Patrick Benson
A House in the Woods by Inga Moore
Leaves by David Ezra Stein
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson, ill. by Jane Chapman
Once Upon a Memory by Nina Laden, ill. by Renata Liwska
Kiss Goodnight by Amy Hest, ill. by Anita Jeram
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
By:
Faith Pray,
on 1/25/2013
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Here's a new batch of Valentine freebies, just for you.
Drag to your desktop and print, willy-nilly.
Add a page of Valentines to color, for your crayon-happy crew.
Enjoy!
This is original art, by me.
It's free for your own personal or classroom use,
but not to be resold.
If you're sharing this, please credit me and/or link this page as the original source.
Thanks for the respect!
Ever been to an Art and Craft Fair?
Crocheted dishcloths. Knitted hats.
Potholders. Handmade glories.
and art...
It was my first time hawking wares
in a mixed crowd.
Sweet folks!
And a tiny bit painful to stand around thinking,
"Over here! Over here! Pick me!"
Whew! The card sets sold out fast.
I'm considering putting them in the Etsy shop...
because everybody needs "Type Happy"cards, don't they?
And new originals -
they'll be up on Etsy, too.
So, this is why things have been silent
on the blog front...
oh, yeah, and because of work on
the new manuscript!
I'll be back soon
with some of our wintery, holiday projects.
In the meantime,
Type Happy!
Check out my artist/writer pal
Kjersten Anna Hayes's Craft Fair Crash Course
here.
Good stuff, Kjersten!
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I'm at a blank!
I know my plot, my scenes,
my characters and their backstories to the nth generation.
I have tidy rows of index cards in Scrivener
spelling me all the way to the end.
I know what NEEDS to happen next
but I just can't picture WHERE it happens.
On a ship? In a shack?
(Sounds like something from Green Eggs and Ham)
Outside? Moonlight? Storm clouds? Hammocks? Dock? Bridge?
This is no end of frustrating!
I recently read
this advice from author Molly Blaisell
about writing novels.
One of the gems she writes is to Stop Rushing Yourself.
So I'm playing with the kids.
A fruit box puppet theater is a good way to try different settings for the novel...right?
While a fruit box has a perfect open shape
for marionette-style puppets,
my kids wanted stick puppets.
So I cut a hole big enough for four pairs of hands
plus
I talked with the kids about peace this week.
"Peace is when your heart isn't troubled. It's also -"
Their dad chimed in,
"-tiny! I have peace.
A tiny piece
of rice."
The evening erupted into wild fits of hilarity.
"I have piece! of pizza! ...piece of paper, piece of pie.... "
Peace talks all done. Try again next year.
A little more sacred dirt to remind me that both life and children do not fit into boxes.
Would you like to know what my children squabble over the most?
The singing manger scene.
"Give me the baby Jesus, stink-head!"
That's right. Maybe next week we can talk about love. We'll see how that goes...
The sketches are part of my homemade Advent calendar,
done old-school style in
India ink and Prisma colors on Canson paper,
cut out like paper dolls, glued onto envelopes and attached to mat board.
Elephants
are always a little...
Big, big, big.
And lumbering.
They chomp bamboo like toothpicks.
Stomp and shove and shoulder.
Elephants do tricks
and live to a ripe old age.
Bigger than monsters,
are they afraid of much?
Huge as giants, do they roar?
Elephants trumpet and harrumph into their trunks
But do elephants snore?
Elephants
in their wrinkled grandeur
make me feel
small, small, small.
Serpentine
I would sob
into my thin second skin,
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I had two plans to get myself to the SCBWI Western Washington Spring Conference next week.
(Ahem. Still working on Plan A.)
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Sweet Laurette's, (c) Faith Pray 2011
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- Do a bundle of new artwork
- Frame it
- Open a Gallery on Etsy
- Find a local place to hang my art
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I don't sail much. Okay, never... unless you count riding the ferries.
But living on a peninsula means boats, and boat people. Lots of them. It almost makes me want to be one. Not a boat. A boat girl.
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"Sometimes I go months without looking" - Phil Connors, Groundhog Day
Introspection takes courage and detachment.
I'm not brave or detached. Their take on flaws is joyful. They delight in uniqueness.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 2/23/2011
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 Did you know that President Thomas Jefferson, novelist Mark Twain, and evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin all wrote in the margins? According to the New York Times, marginalia was denounced in the 20th century as a form of graffiti. These days, scholars love marked up books.
The article offers these observations from University of Toronto professor Heather Jackson: “Books with markings are increasingly seen these days as more valuable, not just for a celebrity connection but also for what they reveal about the community of people associated with a work…examining marginalia reveals a pattern of emotional reactions among everyday readers that might otherwise be missed, even by literary professionals.”
The Caxton Club and the Newberry Library will host a symposium in March to debate this subject; Jackson will be speaking there as well. The event will spotlight on a new essay collection entitled Other People’s Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. This title contains 52 essays and 112 illustrations.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Ah, I have my head back! I don't make a very good invalid, I fret about the ever growing backlog of Things To Do and attempt to do them, then get frustrated when I can't finish them or make a horlicks of it. At least I was able to keep up with the two hundred odd blogs I follow. So this is partly for Eric Orchard, who stirred up an interesting discussion on his blog about sketching and its purpose. We have different approaches. Personally I don't generally think about the whys and wherefores of sketching or even if the results please me. They are just a tool, a stepping stone on the way to a painting, and a scribbelled biro mess on a scrap of paper means as much to me as a more finished drawing. And they often are messes - this is one I scrawled down yesterday. I was surfing the net, and something set my thoughts off. I imagined cats pretending to be birds, how would they disguise themselves? Grabbed a paper scrap, a pen and started banging my thoughts out - would they wear astronaut type helmets? Tried it, then thought that masks would be better, as then you can see the ears. They also wanted some kind of makeshift tail, and a bird nearby who isn't fooled by the rather clumsy costumes. Would it be a bird on wheels - no, tried it, and scratched it out, let's have one hanging from the ceiling. It's all about the unfolding of ideas and working through them, the nearest I can get to splurging my imagination instantly onto paper...
At a glance it looks like black and white spaghetti. When or if I get round to working it up, then it will make more obvious sense to the onlooker. But this one is just a memo for me, and will probably end up in the woodburner.Now the other one, from last night, is in one of my precious Moleskines, and I do tend to be a bit tidier in them; a bit like minding one's P's and Q's with a respectable aunt. I was still ruminating about bird masks, and was trying to think of a way of depicting people withough resorting to human-types.
 I rather like the way the cone-people are going, all kinds of interesting twists to be had on that theme. And just because I have a new camera and I want to play with it - lovely blue-green Old Cotswold Legbar eggs, from Clarence Court. (Almost) too pretty to eat. 
Are you an author or publisher? Do you write books geared towards kids, tweens, or teens? You might consider submitting your book(s) to me to review. I am always happy to receive ARCs or review copies of new and forthcoming books. (I am most interested in 2007 books, but I'd be happy to review books published earlier as well 2004, 2005, 2006, etc). I read in many different genres and appreciate many different styles. I believe in reading widely, and I rarely judge books by their covers.
You can contact me to find out more:
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Further reasons you should consider submitting books to me to review:
a) I review books for Deliciously Clean Reads, and if you're book passes their test of "clean" then that will be TWO places your review will be featured.
b) My reviews are also featured (listed) on the Children's Book Review Index site.
c) I participate in Texas Woman's University's Librarians Choices project. We select the 100 best titles of the year. These books are chosen BY participants. So by making me familiar with your work, I am able to pass along my recommendations and suggestions to the group.
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Hurrah! Bravo!
so cool! Love your art. It always feel fresh and fun.
Ack! Why did I not see this until now? Well then, I shall give them out today. (Valentine's Day is just an arbitrary date, right?) Thank you!