Illustrating Childrens Books

Another  "Kat's Nature"  Adventure ? 

 Working at illustrating a children's book or two.

I choose to do them with watercolor paint 

and pen and ink lines to define the pictures.

pencil sketch of creeper

you know how kittens love to crawl into bags?

pencil sketch of Creeper singing

water color painting of Creeper singing

This has been fun and exciting and 

stressful and anxious times for me

because... 

I never have done anything like this before!

so please be kind!

I am lucky enough to have a friend who is a wonderful writer.

and a very nice person.

 I actually met up with Danny Langone through Facebook. 

 A friend of an old high school friend.

Danny Langone - author

 Danny's wife, Barb was a school mate of my older sister. 

We all grew up in "small town" Wisconsin...

...where everybody knows everybody.

 So we chatter back and forth,

usually just trying to make the other laugh

We have a similar sense of humor, 

although he has perfected his.

I eventually read a few of his published works,

"Keys to the Condo" - humorous poetry

"Flybait's Lament" - fiction novel

"Wilt's Hollow" - in the publishing process now

book jacket by Danny's daughter Kim

 I  absolutely loved reading them all.

Danny really has some enormous talent for telling stories, ticking the funny bone, and touching the heart.
(if you would like to read any of Danny's books let me know 
I can get you a signed copy for 20 dollars from him.)

 One day Danny simply asked if I would like to illustrate 

for a couple  of his children's books.

 He has been wanting to just go ahead and self publish

 for a long time now. 

 After I overcame my,

 "I can't do something that important," feeling...

... I told him I would love to illustrate his books.  

The first book is titled simply,

 "Creeper"

 and the second book is titled

 "Percy" 

 Creeper is an adventurous cat.

 Percy is a hungry little field mouse.

  Both books are lovely, witty, poetic songs.

  Danny  happily reads his poems to 

school children, in his hometown

and they always enjoy that. 

So he had the idea to just go ahead

 and publish some children's books.  

we are doing the self- publish "thing" .

After graphic artist,

Kimberly Langone

gets it all organized for us,

we shall have a book or two to peddle.

according to Google images
this is what a book peddler looks like! Yikes

Another adventure for me!

I look forward to that very much, actually.

of course my grand-daughter. Jillian 

will get the very first copy!

Jillian ...she calls me "Gam-gam"
Yep she stole my old Gammy heart the moment i laid eyes on her!

hugs to you
KAT
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My Tiny Florals with Birds On Top

I am busy 

making some little 

gift shop items

This is my pile of wood that I will cut

 and sand and paint 

to use as the backing for my

 water colored florals

This is some of the raw sanded wooden boards
and little tiny bird shapes.
My hubby cuts out the birds and I do all the sanding and painting from there

Some of the birds I drew up
 were cardinal -like
some are going to be bluebirds
and maybe woodpeckers and finches too
They are looking very basic here and could be anything

I painted all the various sizes of boards
 a creamy color with
acrylic paints

then I painted up some floral
 water-colored paintings on paper

These are the basic flower shapes I came up with
Just sort of from my mind (imaginary flowers?)

ink lines added now for definition.
I don't know why
 I tend to leap
 to the purple and yellow all the time

I have to remember to do other colors too
maybe some red roses
or orange tiger-lilies

 Here is  the Bluebird I did a few weeks ago

Finch I did a few weeks ago

So these are already in the gift shoppe for sale
"The Mindful Bird"
in Williamstown
out in Massachusetts

I hope she has luck selling them to her customers
 I  have many more to send out to the shoppe now.
Or I might just be stuck with these
 May have to try to sell them myself in my etsy shop.
Which has not been exactly hopping for me lately
and I am  almost ready to pack it in with etsy.

So If you know where Williamstown, MA. is 

www.williamsinn.com

and the Williams Inn

 the gift shop there is called 

"The Mindful Bird" 

and Suza is the new owner

she "found" me and my birds 

on ETSY a few months ago

and she is offering my folk art in the gift shop now.

I really hope that I can be successful there 

in some little way.

Most of my items are only ten 

to about twenty dollars which is 

about what tourists pay for a gift-y type item, I guess.

We shall see.

I am coming up with more ideas

 for other bird items 

like a mobile and ornaments 

for the holiday season too.

Wish me good luck my friends

Kat


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