I am so honored to have won the SCBWI Don Freeman Award for published illustrators 2023. The news came as quite a surprise! Here are a few characters that appear in my picture book dummy.
0 Comments
I had so much fun illustrating The Sister Seraphina Mysteries by Haley Stewart. Here is the cover of the third book, The Strange Sound by the Sea, which has just been released. These stories are about a hidden world of little mice living under the floor boards of G. K. Chesterton's home in early 20th century England. There is a school run by mouse nuns and a whole cast of delightful mouse characters. Some of the child mice join the mouse nuns on risky sleuthing adventures! Find out more:
paulinestore.com/the-strange-sound-by-the-sea-qs1009894-202212.html I enjoyed illustrating this delightful series of chapter books by Haley Stewart. Below is a map from one of the books, showing all of the places that play a part in the story.
Cudjoe Lewis was one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the U.S. I was inspired by a 1926 photograph of him to make this drawing with watercolor wash.
These drawings with watercolor wash were made after I learned more about the controversial Confederate monuments that were recently removed and the ideology behind them. Caroline E. Janney helps us understand the "Lost Cause" movement: "The Lost Cause is an interpretation of the American Civil War (1861–1865) that seeks to present the war, from the perspective of Confederates, in the best possible terms. Developed by white Southerners, many of them former Confederate generals, in a postwar climate of economic, racial, and social uncertainty, the Lost Cause created and romanticized the "Old South" and the Confederate war effort, often distorting history in the process. For this reason, many historians have labeled the Lost Cause a myth or a legend. It is certainly an important example of public memory, one in which nostalgia for the Confederate past is accompanied by a collective forgetting of the horrors of slavery..." The UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy) were instrumental in the perpetuation of the "Lost Cause" interpretation of history and were often behind the erection of monuments to Generals of the South. We see the daughters below, as well as some of their statues.
|