Floating About

     Hello!  Sorry for the late post, has been a very long day.  I have been working on my

entry for the Tomie dePaola Award.  http://www.scbwi.org/awards/tomie-depaola-award  

I did a lot of sketching for this one and changed my mind about what I wanted for the final

art after already transferring it onto my paper.  Sometimes I think I jump the gun a little and

don't analyse the work enough.  Showing my sketches will give away my final too much but

I did want to share a sneak peek of my tracing.  This is another thing I have learned along the way.

I wasn't sure what colors I wanted to use so 

put tracing paper over my final sketch to sort out the colors.  My palette of colors are bright, which makes me a little nervous.  I tend to stick with softer or natural color.  Coloring with pencils and

actually painting on the tracing paper also helped me figure out pattern.  I was going to make this

little doggie solid blue, then thought about spots, but then tried the tiny ones.  The tiny ones are cute 

but I hope it doesn't look like blue chicken pox!  The illustration prompt if you haven't read it is

a poem called "Sneeze" so maybe it is fitting.  Anyway painting with brights and working

on this made me feel so happy, and *thought bubble* This is why I do this.

More news is that I signed up for Lilla Rogers Assignment Bootcamp.   http://lillarogers.com/school/assignment-bootcamp

It starts in February and I am very excited.  I have been feeling lately like

one of those balloons you blow up, don't tie, then let loose to go nuts 

   about the room.  Perhaps direction will help me fine tune my style and 

figure some things out.  Until then I will be floating about

the room.  See ya next weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!