KAT's Nature... Is To Be Creative: children's book

here is my art work for this week.

I am trying out the new water soluble oil paint

made by Winsor & Newton

I have not painted anything much, just yet

...still in the drawings stage

for this children's book.

called

"Percy"

My friend and I are going to do the

self publishing thing with Dog Ear Publishing

out of Indy.

So here is a little of what I have so far.

There is Percy, a hungry field mouse

that lives in an old log.

There are two mean rats,

and of course a

cat

to deal with.

Some of you may be wondering

about the first children's book,

"Creeper"

It is in the process still.

It takes time when you self publish.

I look forward to these

little books coming out in 2012.

P S...I will pick one name

from the comments for the owl giveaway at noon and I will send the winner an email.

Thanks to those who commented on that giveaway post from last Friday.
you can still go to that post and leave a comment
before noon EST.

Good Luck to you all.

- KAT -

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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