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Christmas is closer, the nights are colder, the stars are bright and clear - for the 19th day of Advent here is one of the "Milky Way" racoons (Eight Maids a Milking) from
Woodland Christmas.
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ophelia's nocturne 6x6 mixed media on canvas panel ©the enchanted easel 2016 |
this summer i wanted to try my hand at some small mixed media pieces. i decided to start with a theme of sorts as far as a color palette went....i chose just a few to start with...red, orange, teal and brown. from there two little creatures were born. ophelia here is the first.
mixed media was kind of new for me. i have so many art supplies laying around my home that instead of looking at all of them, well i wanted to try to actually USE them. my paintings/commissions are acrylic on stretched canvas so i never really get to play with my oil pastels or my inks (OMG-can we say "obsessed" now?!) or my tons of scrapbook papers and supplies, etc.
one day i sat down in between commissions and said "what the heck...let's give it a shot!" and so i did...and had a blast doing so. i used everything from paper to water soluble graphite pencils to palette knives to my fingers for this piece. even got some old sheet music from my keyboard ("ophelia" from tori amos to be exact-hence the name of this little owl) and went to town with that. a total blast this was-from start to finish.
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Tim Bowers,
on 10/2/2016
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A new book just hit the shelves, last week. Buddy's Bedtime Battery by Chirstina Geist (published by Random House) is my latest book and I want to take you behind the pages to see how the project progressed.
It's always exciting to get the first printed books in the mail. After months of a studio full of art boards in progress, wet paint and gallons of coffee (not part of the painting process but very necessary), the final product is a welcome payoff. Buddy finally arrived!
Now, let's look at how Buddy arrived. After reading the story manuscript and creating sketches for the characters, a full length book dummy was created. When the book sketches were finalized, the painting process began.
I created a production line of boards with images of each page. I taped the edges with low-tac tape to keep that area clean and white. Then, an underpainting with brown acrylic paint was washed (thin layers) onto the boards. I usually do this when the final art is created with oil paint. The acrylic and polymer layers sealed the paper board from the oils and gave me a good (light and dark) value study to follow.
At this stage, the studio was full of artwork covering every flat space to be found. I have a drying rack for storing work in progress but I like to see everything laid, side by side.
Here is the title page. The towel area on the left was used for copyright and publishing information. The title was placed on the wall, above the bathtub. Notice the pajamas are visible, just below the towel. I often use elements and story props to hint at what's coming on the following page(s).
Here is one of the illustration spreads. One of my favorite images of the book.
This was my table, somewhere under the shingles of drying illustrations. The images were at various stages of completion so Buddy's hair looks really dark on the bottom image, etc. I worked on several paintings at a time and all art started to finalize toward the end of the process....which is also called..."the deadline" (If all goes as planned). It was a fairly long process and sometimes hard to see the end when spending days painting little parts, adjusting colors and adding detail. But eventually, it all came together and a package with the final art of Buddy's Bedtime Battery traveled to Random House.
Then, months later, I get to see the book on NBC, being read to millions of TV viewers. How COOL is that? So exciting! ...So surreal! ...Yay, Buddy!
...deep breath...now, back to the drawing board. :)
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Patrick Girouard,
on 9/18/2016
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Over every
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not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke
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Approximately 500 years ago a Polish lawyer, medical doctor, and churchman got a radical idea: that the earth was not fixed solidly in the middle of all space, but was spinning at a thousand miles per hour at its equator and was speeding around the sun at a dizzying rate. Unbelievable, critics said. If that were true, at the equator people would be spun off into space. And it would be much harder to walk west than east.
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Patrick Girouard,
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The following books will receive starred reviews in the March/April 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie; illus. by Yuyi Morales (Little, Brown)
When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes; illus. by Laura Dronzek (Greenwillow)
School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex; illus. by Christian Robinson (Porter/Roaring Brook)
Twenty Yawns by Jane Smiley; illus. by Lauren Castillo (Two Lions)
Booked by Kwame Alexander (Houghton)
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry (Viking)
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (Candlewick)
A Tangle of Gold by Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine/Scholastic)
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane Orgill; illus. by Francis Vallejo (Candlewick)
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Patrick Girouard,
on 1/22/2016
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on 12/26/2015
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{perhaps he's dreaming of SNOW. God knows i sure am....}
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{hello kitty. loved her then. love her now.}
From Dasha Tolstikova’s A Year Without Mom
The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:
I Hear a Pickle; (and Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!); written and illustrated by Rachel Isadora (Paulsen/Penguin)
Emma and Julia Love Ballet; written and illustrated by Barbara McClintock (Scholastic)
Unbecoming; by Jenny Downham (Fickling/Scholastic)
Ling & Ting: Together in All Weather; written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
Anna and the Swallow Man; by Gavriel Savit (Knopf)
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future; written and illustrated by Allan Drummond (Foster/Farrar)
A Year Without Mom; written and illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova (Groundwood)
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i debated whether or not to *share* this on my blog (as you won't find it on my
website or my public
facebook page) because it's disney and we all know how disney is with their characters/copyrights (rightfully so). however...
after some dark days recently in the world (and the fact that it is this legend's birthday today) well, i thought i would brighten up the times with some COLOR and HAPPINESS! i mean c'mon, how can you not SMILE when you see Mickey Mouse?! :)
***{i am NOT a fan of painting other people's characters, especially so spot on, for obvious reasons although i know people do it all the time. this was a special request from a friend who is a HUGE Mickey fan. my head is overflowing with ideas for my own work so therefore i am NOT taking commissions for things such as this. anything else, please don't hesitate to
contact me for something special...be it a custom painting or drawing. i'd be more than happy to accommodate you.}***
this guy though...not too shabby for 87, eh? ;)
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truly this week's
IF theme was created just for me....and little maggie. ;) two little insomniac BFFs painting themselves a
whimsical night sky. ' cause while the rest of the world sleeps, we paint. :)
{throwing back to last july 2014 for this one...my website's home page image and the *face* of
the enchanted easel. a bit more about this painting
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Totally Wacky Facts About Space Series: Mind Benders Written by Emma Carlson Berne Capstone Press 8/01/2015 978-1-4914-6526-4 240 pages Ages 8—12 “Ever wondered what astronauts do with their dirty underwear? Or which astronaut played golf on the moon? If you’re looking for wacky factoids and out-of-this-world trivia, this book has it …
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Un altro assaggino :D
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doesn't matter what shape, size and/or color.
this piece was a commission from a friend of mine whose daughter i taught a few years back. a bot more about their story
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it's always a cherished moment when someone calls upon me for a custom painting. it's an even bigger treasure when it's a friend. this piece was truly a pleasure to create.
i am offering a LIMITED amount of prints which can be found
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onto another commission...:)
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations." - Elias Canetti.
From FUNNY BONES, by Duncan Tonatiuh
The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December issue of The Horn Book Magazine:
Tiptoe Tapirs; written and illustrated by Hanmin Kim; trans. from the Korean by Sera Lee (Holiday)
I Used to Be Afraid; written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Porter/Roaring Brook)
Flop to the Top!; written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing (TOON)
Hereville:How Mirka Caught a Fish; written and illustrated by Barry Deutsch (Amulet/Abrams)
Calvin; by Martine Leavitt (Ferguson/Farrar)
Written and Drawn by Henrietta; written and drawn by Liniers (TOON)
All American Boys; by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (Dlouhy/Atheneum)
The Emperor of Any Place; by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick)
My Seneca Village; by Marilyn Nelson (Namelos)
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever; by Jim Murphy (Clarion)
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras; written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams)
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there's always room at the top...for a hug! 12x12 acrylic on canvas ©the enchanted easel |
with my birthday coming up in a few days, well i have CAKE on my mind (but that wouldn't really distinguish it from any other day of the week)...
anyhoo, here's a little flashback friday to this sweet treat from last November...'cause even Hello Kitty deserves to eat CAKE on her birthday! ;)
{PRINTS AND OTHER GOODIES FOUND
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now...GO EAT CAKE!!! :)
{ORIGINAL PAINTING IS FOR SALE. CONTACT ME THROUGH MY WEBSITE IF INTERESTED.}
The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October issue of The Horn Book Magazine:
Fire Engine No. 9; written and illustrated by Mike Austin (Random)
The Nonsense Show; written and illustrated by Eric Carle (Philomel)
Waiting; written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
Two Mice; written and illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (Clarion)
Crenshaw; by Katherine Applegate (Feiwel)
Sunny Side Up; by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm; illus. by Matthew Holm; color by Lark Pien (Graphix/Scholastic)
I Crawl Through It; by A. S. King (Little, Brown)
The Nest; by Kenneth Oppel; illus. by Jon Klassen (Simon)
The Hired Girl; by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Out of the Woods: A True Story of an Unforgettable Event; written and illustrated by Rebecca Bond; illus. by the author (Ferguson/Farrar)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans; written and illustrated by Don Brown (Houghton)
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear; by Lindsay Mattick; illus. by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown)
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War; by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook)
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Ekua Holmes (Candlewick)
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"moonlight mavens" 11x14 acrylic on canvas |
to one year ago yesterday...and this painting, "
moonlight mavens".
hard to believe this piece (and the newly designed
website, by me) are exactly one year old! how do i know this? it was website renewal fee day yesterday (
squarespace is awesome, by the way)....and, i have a memory like an elephant. ;)
here's the
story behind this painting as well as a bit more about
me (in case you didn't already know)...
{and, just because it's throwback thursday, well i thought i'd share a picture of a very small Nicole with lots of dreams behind those big brown eyes of being the bestest children's artist she could be! :)}
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