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1. Dragon Slippers Book II: "Dragon Flight"

By: David Hohn, on 8/8/2014
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Cover for the second book in Jessica Day George's "Dragon Slippers" trilogy. This one is called "Dragon Flight"

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2. Hartford MFA: More Students

By: David Hohn, on 8/7/2014
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More of the students at Hartford who were kind enough to let me sketch them.

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3. Hartford MFA: Doug Anderson and Bill Thomson

By: David Hohn, on 8/6/2014
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Our thesis advisors for the MFA program are Bill Thomson and Doug Anderson. Very excited to be working with them!

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4. Hartford MFA: Gary Kelley

By: David Hohn, on 8/5/2014
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Another instructor at the Hartford MFA program is Gary Kelley. I won't have a class with him until next year but that didn't stop me from sketching him during down moment. Can not wait to watch his mono print demo!

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5. Hartford MFA: Ted and Betsy Lewin

By: David Hohn, on 8/4/2014
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The instructors for my children's book illustration class were none other than Ted and Betsy Lewin!
Such a splendid couple! I caught Betsy pretty well but Ted eluded me in this sketch. (More on him later) The guy on the left was a speaker at the Norman Rockwell museum who gave a remarkably tone deaf lecture on Edward Hopper.

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6. MFA Speakers: Jeff Sangalli

By: David Hohn, on 8/3/2014
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Jeff gave a great talk about the new game Entwined that he art directed for Sony Playstation.

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7. MFA Speakers: Gary Lippincott

By: David Hohn, on 8/2/2014
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I've been aware of his work for years, excellent to hear him speak about it in person
(and the unfinished sketch on the right is Murray Tinkelman)

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8. Hartford MFA: More students

By: David Hohn, on 8/1/2014
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More of my fellow students.

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9. Hartford MFA: Students

By: David Hohn, on 7/31/2014
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So one of the things that I do compulsively is draw people around me. My fellow students were wonderfully accommodating (and sometimes completely unaware)

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10. Hartford MFA: Dennis Nolan

By: David Hohn, on 7/30/2014
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Just got back from the first session of my Hartford University MFA Illustration program. Dennis Nolan was one of the instructors for the Advanced Illustration class. Can you guess what his mantra was? Go on, try.

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11. New Dragon Slippers Cover Art

By: David Hohn, on 6/5/2014
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I was asked by Bloomsbury Publishing to create new covers for a reissue of Jessica Day George's "Dragon Slippers" trilogy. This is the art for the first book.

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12. Recent Sketch: Paint Break!!

By: David Hohn, on 8/19/2013
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Been working like crazy this last year, but so much has been digital. Every so often I have to just step away from the monitor and splash some paint around in my sketchbook. Here is the result.

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13. Theater Poster: Mark Twain's Mississippi

By: David Hohn, on 8/16/2013
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Might have taken this project simply to play with the "Mississippi" type. But had a great time working Twain's handwritten manuscripts into the image

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14. Theater Poster Sketches: Click Clack Moo

By: David Hohn, on 8/15/2013
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Easily one of the things I love most about working with theaters is the chance to offer my interpretation of my favorite stories. I've done many of the classic public domain stories, but I love being able to have a go at more contemporary books. I love, love(!) Betsy Lewin's illustrations for Click Clack Moo, but still had a blast giving Doreen Cronin's story my own take. Here are the rough sketches for the theater poster.

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15. Theater Poster: Gathering Blue

By: David Hohn, on 8/14/2013
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A theater poster for "Gathering Blue" for Oregon Children's Theater. Such a great production!

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16. Imagination Station: new book cover

By: David Hohn, on 8/13/2013
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The cover art for the upcoming entry in the Imagination Station series.

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17. Theater Poster: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

By: David Hohn, on 8/12/2013
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By: David Hohn, on 8/9/2013
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Bunnicula was one of my favorite books from when I was eight. I got the opportunity to create my version for a theater poster.

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19. Character Sketches

By: David Hohn, on 3/5/2013
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Working on the cover art for a fantasy book series. These are portraits of the two main characters. (And yes, there will be dragons)

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20. Sheep Lessons Part 3

By: David Hohn, on 2/8/2013
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A bit of a jump in the narrative. Suffice to say our heroine has enjoyed her first day of Kindergarten.

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21. Sheep Lessons Part 2

By: David Hohn, on 2/7/2013
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Part 2 of "Sheep Lessons".
Our heroine has a nightmare

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22. Sheep Lessons Part 1

By: David Hohn, on 2/6/2013
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Did this project for Spider Magazine that was published a couple months ago. I enjoy working for magazines because (especially Spider) because the art direction is fairly light and I can try out different techniques. I was happy with how this series of illustrations turned out. I'll post my favorite three over the next few days.

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23. Recent Sketches: Out on the playground

By: David Hohn, on 2/5/2013
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24. Society of Illustrators Juried Show

By: David Hohn, on 2/4/2013
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Honored to have this book cover I did selected for the Society of Illustrators Annual 55 (whoo-hoo!)
The opening reception was last Friday and runs until March 2nd 2013.

Unfortunately my work schedule means that I won't be able to check out the show in person, but if you do go, please drop me a line (and maybe a photo?)

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25. More of my model

By: David Hohn, on 1/31/2013
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Sketches from our various outings over the last few months.

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