tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35143589072205707612024-03-06T01:47:36.118-05:00The Cinnamon Rabbitwww.juliadenos.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829043008831076520noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3514358907220570761.post-87484989807489539382014-05-20T10:39:00.000-04:002014-05-20T14:48:50.201-04:00Rabbit Farewell.Hi!<br />
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It's been quiet here. But that's because I've been on some adventures, and I can't wait to tell you about them.<br />
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But first, I'd better close up shop here at The Cinnamon Rabbit. Bittersweet. We've resided here since the start of my illustration career in 2007. And what a soul-friend <a href="http://thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2011/07/nobody-knows-rabbits-nose.html" target="_blank">the Rabbit </a>was. Cinnamon was there at the very beginning, long-eared and listening in the grass, during the time of life when I began to write and illustrate as a kid, and so this blog was named for him. The good thing about soul-friends is that they can come along, wherever you go.<br />
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Some childhood dreams are becoming real now, and so I am reminded of "the beginning" a lot lately, and that rabbit. <i>And</i> it's Spring...a time of fresh starts, brave green, secrets and buds about to pop. <span class="Apple-style-span">Follow me (and my rabbit) over to my new website: </span><a href="http://www.juliadenos.com/blog"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">www.juliadenos.com/blog</span></b></a><br />
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<br />www.juliadenos.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829043008831076520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3514358907220570761.post-15276737724839915172013-12-13T16:54:00.001-05:002013-12-13T22:25:02.822-05:00Lights in the Dark.Happy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy's_Day" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">Feast of Lucia/ St. Lucy's Day/Lussinatta</span></b></a>! I've always loved this brightly lit and mysterious saint's night, especially because of its interwoven indigenous roots...<br />
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I was raised with saints, and songs, and lighting candles in the dark. Every Christmastime, before dinner, we would go around the house turning the lights out while my mother would light the advent wreath. We'd return to huddle around her guitar in the dark so we could<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_come,_O_come,_Emmanuel" target="_blank"> <b><span style="color: black;">this song</span></b></a>. I will never forget the way the eerie tune shimmered with the flame in the black, transforming our living room with thrown shadows. Shoulder to shoulder with my siblings, it was ancient and anticipatory and made the hairs of our arms stand up.<br />
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Tonight, in many nordic countries, girls will wear crowns of lit candles, there will be saffron buns, and songs, and if you dig WAY back into history, you can find more solstice-based Celtic/Germanic/Nordic traditions that still remain part of Lucia's night. Here is a warm up sketch I did in the studio today. Though she does not wear candles, I still named her Lussinata. Perhaps she predates Lucia, and is on her way to a bright Yule festival (<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">J</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ól</span></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">)</i>.<br />
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This <a href="http://www.weartboston.org/event-details/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>Sunday October 20th from 11-3</b></span></a>, join picture book makers for a family event on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. There will be music, story hour, book signing, book making with Peter Reynolds and David McCauley, and I'll be drawing free stuffed animal portraits alongside Kelly Murphy, Barbara McClintock, Scott Magoon, Matt Tavares, and more! Donations will benefit the Boston Children's Hospital Emergency and Trauma Unit. </div>
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The <a href="http://www.weartboston.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>We Art Boston picture book auction</b></span></a> is on NOW through October 24th, with all proceeds funding the Boston Children's Hospital Emergency and Trauma unit. My limited edition Dotty g<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">iclée <a href="http://www.weartboston.org/items/julia-denos/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> and signed (and glittery) copy of Dotty HERE.</span></span><br />
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Many things happening here behind the scenes. Can't wait to share! Until then, I'm just grateful to say some hopeful seeds that were planted, are beginning to POP POP POP (simultaneously of course, because Life always seems to bloom at once, with your having very little say in the matter!)</div>
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You know those moments in career, interior life, childhood, where a definite movement, a shift, change, wings its way in and asks the question: "Ok. It's time. Are you ready?"... and it's usually when you aren't 100% sure you are, but you are finally willing to try? As September begins, I hear the question again, for the many changes ahead. It always makes me feel small and thrilled.<br />
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September is all about this question though, isn't it? Back-to-school, new starts, many people in our circle, dear friends, family are being asked that question too. Yum. There is nothing more delectable to me than crisp-edged transition! And a precipice should always be located between seasons, I think.<br />
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But this is my favorite time of year, regardless! It's the edge between two seasons, really. I'll call it the Magic Season. When peaches overlap apples. Buses roar. Books are written and read and come to life. Jazz and cities play, but fiddles and shore are still alive. You pick up the search again for a perfect yellow sweater, maybe you'll find it this year...What do you like about this time of year? </div>
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Lobster boat? Yes, lobster boat. You must leave your car here, at the tippity top of the hill, and get on one, if you want to cross the water. While you wait, you will be stunned by the view that suddenly opens up ahead: a sparkling bay dotted with islands. Sheepskerry is SO secret and small that someone (a kind, older woman, also waiting for the lobster boat on your bench) might lean over and ask: "Who do YOU know on the island?" Because everyone knows everyone on the island!</div>
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So that is how to get to Margaret McNamara's favorite place, home to the Fairy Bell sisters. Before I continue, I'll tell you the third and final secret: Margaret's real name is Brenda (she writes as Margaret and represents artists and writers as rep Brenda Bowen). She graciously invited me up last August, so I could see Sheepskerry myself, take pictures, and learn how to build a proper fairy house. It was a pleasure getting to meet her, and her family, and childhood friends. Most of them have summered on this island for generations.</div>
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When the lobster boat reached Sheepskerry, I could see Brenda arriving at the dock, accompanied by her family (right away I spotted her and daughter's red hair and freckles–thought of Rosy!) It was a treat to finally meet her after the long journey, emailing, and reading her stories. And, just like the Summer People do in Book 2, we loaded my bags into a big wheelbarrow and headed up the footpath to her cottage, passing friends and fields of wild flowers on the way. </div>
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I wasn't prepared for the meadows! They stole the breath right out of me. The Fairy Bells' world expanded into wildflower blooms and sun. My lungs were filled with the kind of air you can't breathe in the city. It was a old-fashioned, unplugged place, surrounded by blue, magical even just for those reasons, if not for the fact a whole village of fairies were living here, and I'd get to meet them soon...</div>
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We reached Brenda's cottage and she showed me my room so I could set my bags and supplies down...there I spied a wildflower bouquet (what would become Rosy's wildflower bouquet in Book 2!)<br />
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Lunch was on the porch (which included, yes, Fairy Cake, recipe in Book 1) with the wind whipping and the sound of surf. We finally had a good chat. We talked about Clara, Rosy, Sylva, Goldie and Squeak, J. M. Barrie. It was fascinating to hear about her many hats in the publishing industry.</div>
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We laughed when we found out we were both from a big family, full of sisters. And I could tell she liked pretending. It's always interesting, being an adult who makes a living at <i>pretending</i>. And it's especially fun to meet another who does, too. You can relax, you can be kindreds. Brenda was full of ideas and always had a glint in her eye. I could tell she had some adventures planned. Sure enough she announced it was time for our first appointment on Sheepskerry: Building Fairy Houses! </div>
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Is it terrible I had never made a fairy house until that day? Have you? I was a little nervous. Brenda, Betsy, Isadora, and Avery (a "Summer Child" who came through the woods to join us) knew just how to do it. Isadora patiently explained that you use only found and natural things in a fairy house (but more on How To Build A Fairy House later, I'll be making a post for that).<br />
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It wasn't long before I could really SEE the Fairy Bells living under the ferns and tall pines, playing cards in their mossy little house. When sunset came, we all paraded down the boardwalk toward "White Rose Cottage" for dinner on their back porch facing the bay. It was a sweet bunch of people, a night of old island tales, twinkling light. I was so grateful to be a part of it and invited to Sheepskerry.</div>
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Yes it was a visit to a real place, but one woven with ribbons of fiction. Everywhere we walked, even during dinner, or in the middle of a story, Brenda would break into a whisper with a wink, a nudge and a Fairy Bell clue...that "this" or "that" was something from third book, or where Goldie collects sea glass. The best part of our jobs, as book makers I think, is to pretend, and I was honored to be able to do it alongside Margaret McNamara, in the place where the Fairy Bells lived...</div>
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If you'd like to read the rest of the Fairy Bell Blog Kickoff, Part I: <u>Fairy Bell Release Day</u> is <b><a href="http://thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2013/04/fairy-bell-release-day.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> and Part II: <u>Behind the Scenes With the Bells</u> is <b><a href="http://thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2013/04/part-ii-behind-scenes-with-bells.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. This summer I'll be posting How to Build Your Own Fairy House, so I'll be seeing you again very soon...!<br />
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Good morning! Today is the second installment of the blog kickoff for the Fairy Bell Sisters! <b><a href="http://harpercollinschildrens.com/books/Fairy-Bell-Sisters-1-Sylva-Ball/?isbn13=9780062228024&tctid=100" target="_blank">Books 1</a></b> and<b><a href="http://harpercollinschildrens.com/books/Fairy-Bell-Sisters-2-Rosy-Secret-Friend/?isbn13=9780062228055&tctid=100" target="_blank"> 2</a></b> are out on shelves now. For Part II: <u>Behind the Scenes With the Bells</u>, I'd love to show you some sketching from the studio...<br />
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Once again, I found myself drawing <a href="http://thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2012/04/book-cover-series-cassons-have-arrived.html" target="_blank">siblings</a>, and sisters, no less! As the oldest of five kids, it's always fun to seek out that "family resemblance" and build from there. There were lots of conversations about the Bell sisters between Margaret, Donna, Amy and the sales team. We settled on the idea that every fairy would look related but be distinctly individual (in hair color, skin tone, facial features, clothing style). I knew from the manuscript that these fairies lived in a very natural world and loved to play and accessorize with mussel shells and pine cones, feather skirts and milkweed pods...<br />
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But first, I wanted to nail down my art style and decided what level of reality these fairies would exist in. It would help me to build the characters and world. Donna and Amy asked to see two styles: my graphic "crayon" style and a more realistic approach. So I experimented with Sylva (previously named "Silver")...<br />
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The team decided on realism, so I set to work on the sisters. At this point, I only had the manuscript for the first book. My favorite job as an illustrator is to extract visual clues from the author's story, and balance that with how they behave in my imagination. Choosing wing colors and variations on each fairy was a SUPER girlhood dream come true...I was in second-grade again!</div>
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Sylva was always platinum blonde in my mind, a little translucent and wispy. She's brave too (as you will see in the troll battle) and quick-thinking. Sylva always seems wide-eyed to me and seeking adventure. I kept imagining her as if she'd JUST landed for a moment to say hello before flying off again...</div>
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From the text, I knew Clara had dark skin that shimmered against an aqua gown. She is the oldest, very strong-willed, and a confident leader for her sisters. I gave her a noble gaze.</div>
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Goldie's the stylish, slightly self-involved sister, but with a heart of gold and a love of creativity. I imagined her weaving leaves and flowers into her hair. Sadly, her pixie-bangs were asked to be deleted, but I added them to other fairy friends later in the series!<br />
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Rosy is brave, patient, loyal, and selfless. She has endless amounts of encouragement for her sisters, and an unguarded heart. I knew that the author imagined her as a redhead so I went that way...<br />
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Squeak is just plain awesome. She's a baby fairy and can speak her own language! Examples: "Bo-bo"= let's eat, and "No lo-lo" = don't be sad. I pictured her with a wild little top knot!<br />
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Then we started on the first two cover sketches. Sylva would be holding a mermaid's pearl or sea glass (from her exploits on the beach) and Rosy would have an armful of wild flowers (for a certain summer child...) </div>
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Thanks for stopping by! Come back for Part III: <u>Visiting Sheepskerry Island,</u> my trip to meet author <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/MargaretMcNamaraAuthor" target="_blank">Margaret McNamara</a></b> and our real-life adventures on Sheepskerry Island!</div>
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Today is the day Clara, Rosy, Golden, Sylva and Baby Squeak (Hortensia) officially fly from the island to bookshelves everywhere! They would absolutely love to meet you, and I'd love to introduce them:<br />
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It's here! It's officially here! In New England, we are clinging tightly to the hope of Spring! It comes after the longest, meanest winter I can remember. It wasn't so much the ferocity of it, but the length and the relentless pace of its storms. No sunshine for weeks, white on white. I heard a meteorologist explain that this pummeling-by-snowstorm all the way to the bitter end is the atmosphere's way of balancing out. But! No more snow talk! You know what Spring is? Brave. And so is color. We can help speed the new season in with pops of it...</div>
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Dear-to-my-heart Annie Moore of Candlewick lore, color-comrade, and writing partner with some brave green growing right out of her pocket!</div>
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A little painted card by <a href="http://ebgoodale.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Emily</span></a> in her favorite yellow!</div>
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I think it's good to get brave and messy with color, paint with it, play in it, eat it, seek it out. Let color remind you of the warm and bright days ahead of us... (even if it snows again!)</div>
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I'm turning 30 (oomph) on Sunday. I was born in the heart of winter. I will be honest and tell you 29 has been hard. (I hear the 30's are a piece of cake! ;) But this year, friendship is what has pulled me back when I reached for it. I am learning too, that it is OK to reach for it. Does it make us grown-up to realize we're small? That it's ok to be vulnerable? That we can't do everything ourselves? That sometimes we need to rely on hearts around us...that it's an honor to rely on, and to be relied upon.</div>
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Friendship is the thing I am most grateful for as I come to the end of this decade. It is a deep treasure, right? To have one and to be one. To need one and to search for one. To find one and to become one. It's what can bloom between us in the heart of Winter, when we are not afraid to let it Spring. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">♥</span></div>
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An enormous Happy 30th to my best childhood friend, <a href="http://lessonsandlaughs.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html" target="_blank"><b>Kay,</b></a> today! (She goes over the hill first!)</div>
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Beloved friends, family & readers, THANK YOU for your love through the years. I'm shooting it right back to you (in creepy kitty form–<a href="http://thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2012/10/boo.html" target="_blank"><b>remember him</b></a>?). Don't forget, hugs sink extra deep today!</div>
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In the fairy realm I am working in, the author has decided to treat wings as detachable accessories, which is very kind of her considering there is a lot of dressing up and going to balls (wings and gowns-eek). Swimming might be another perfect situation to take advantage...<br />
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It's crunchy out. The sun is in your eyes, ice is underfoot. City people hurry by, faces wound in scarves. We are on the freshest edge together, newly whet by winter.</div>
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Isn't it exciting? There is hope on this edge, that things can change, that we can shape our own little worlds. It's fresh and clean and everything is new...you've got new ideas, (new socks, maybe), new plans, new hopes. It's a time for travel, opening the eyes (I've been keeping my eyes on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-devaney/idle-no-more-the-beauty-o_b_2393053.html" target="_blank"><b>this important movement</b></a>), learning a language, reading deeply, and dreaming long dreams, interior adventures, interior decorating, prayer, nesting, gathering friends and family to light up the corners. It flavors your back-to-work tasks with possibility, re-enlivens your livelihood.<br />
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My sister, Christa, aptly dubbed it, "home keeping/possible magical worlds season"...YES. (She always says it best.) I like the in-between-seasons, maybe even more than the main events. I think it's because of their quiet power. It's when all the secret work is being done before something is ready to bloom....<br />
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As far as seasonal nesting, my eyes always return from break fixed on pattern and color. I've been aiming to surround us in <span style="color: #073763;"><b>delft blue</b></span> and Scandinavian pattern. I love how pattern can turn a corner into a "place" with a story of its own. Another domestic-cozy goal has been to create a homemade "hearth" for folks to sit around. We started to bring it to life this week (and escaped a fire emergency!) At least I can pretend it's the real thing. Isn't it neat what a little dancing flame can to a dark room (and cat)?</div>
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Right now is also a time of visual starkness. Color and imagination are VERY powerful because of that. The palette here in Quincy is gull-gray, white, and sharp sea blue. Stories are clearer and louder against those colors. Dream-life seems to mix with real-life too...a winter alchemy. I always dream vividly when the new year begins, too. Do you? The past few nights mine have been full of symbols, adventures, tunnels and good advice from strangers (is it weird to dream of strangers?) Every dream has been focusing around the prospect of "being ready"...(I hope this is a good thing!) I think it's all part of the humming work that has begun. Here's a doodled symbol from a dream: full of roses.</div>
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So Happy New Year, friends! And vivid dreaming too! I hope you are refreshed and ready for it. Can't wait to watch it bloom together, I think it's gonna be a good one.<br />
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I've been writing my novel (thanks for the encouragement!), revising <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Bell-Sisters-Secret-Friend/dp/0062228048/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354293150&sr=1-2&keywords=fairy+bell+sisters" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">fairies</span></a>, heading south for research interviews, and getting lost in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stonington-Connecticut-1653-1684-published-Paperback/dp/B009OL7LJ4/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1354824906&sr=8-8&keywords=thomas+minor+diary" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">journals of people that lived hundreds of years ago</span></a>. Before the holidays totally consume us, I wanted to quick get this old post up. Because it's all about Almost-Winter in New England, which is one of my favorite times, and it's nearly done already.<br />
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The palette across our land here in New England becomes rich and complex during this season. Out on an echoing walk through the hollow woods you can see mulberries, purples-bruised-to-blacks, plums, poisonous reds on neutrals, rumbling umbers, steely evergreen and that perfect hard-to-mix slate blue sky. It is soggy under your feet, the light is long and a little bit sad, the air is dense and sweet with the smell of leaves turning to earth. You think about the people who have felt home here too, over thousands of years, and everyone, for a moment feels connected and alive. The deciduous trees become ringed kings topped in copper crowns. They are as many ghosts as there are trees...and Christmas will settle into the land if you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHkTYpzHNVQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">cue a Coventry Carol</span></a> or two!<br />
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At the very edge of night and day, was when we'd love to go out and play in it, wrapped up in old table cloths for "old-fashioned dresses", "stewing" our rotten Halloween pumpkin in the burgundy dark over a flashlight, pretending we were putting up onion grass for the long winter under the deck, being chilled to the bone so when our mom would call us in for soup, it would be an unimaginable luxury...<br />
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I actually wrote and re-wrote this post about a dozen times, because it's nearly impossible for me to talk about my landscape. So, I usually don't. My relationship to the land here is personal and bone-deep. I have entries saved about New England in the summer, the spirit in the land, the seagulls and the green. But I'm always stopped from posting by two things: (1) the belief that no one would want to read about things like seagulls and ocean! and (2) I am always at a loss for words, re: the land. Sometimes something is too beloved to explain.</div>
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When I view hazy New England hills on a car drive, my reaction is always immediate. It's from the center of my chest. Peace settles through me while I scan the stacked golds and fire-tinged sphere against sphere. Is it having been born here? Having been lulled to sleep in the backseat watching them roll since I was born? Maybe. I will probably always always live here, I don't think I'd ever be able to part with them (the hills-or the ghosts).<br />
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Sometimes just doing a little painting unlocks the language of the land for me, keeping my imagination planted firmly in the cold wet dirt while I write.<br />
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Can you imagine the mess that a flock of fairy sisters (and each with her own pair of wings) might make in your house? Well, imagine it, and you've got my studio for the next few weeks! The music is loud, inky bristol board is everywhere, and if you come to the door, I will greet you in all my sans-make-up-scary-haired-brow-furrowed glory, while whisking my collection of old tea mugs away to the sink, Kathleen Kelly style.<br />
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I also become slightly non-verbal in final art mode, it's strange. For days, my eyes and hands converse via line, shape, and value. In my head it sounds a little like this: "WIDE GREY THING, CHALKY EDGE THERE, SPLATTER!, BRING THE DARKS OUT, MUTE WITH OPAQUE, DEFINE LINE." Like a render machine. Am I making sense? No? Have some toast...<br />
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This coming Saturday, I'll have an excuse to put pants on and remember how to talk: I'll be speaking at Foundation For Children's Books "What's New In Children's Books" with authors I admire,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"> <a href="http://www.gracelin.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Grace Lin</span></a></span> and <a href="http://www.daveyoo.com/author/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">David Yoo</span></a>. Details <a href="http://thefcb.org/ai1ec_event/whats-new-in-childrens-books-fall-2012/?instance_id=9" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">HERE</span></a>. Would love to see you, come say hello!www.juliadenos.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07829043008831076520noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3514358907220570761.post-15726375010463166232012-10-31T15:08:00.003-04:002012-10-31T15:08:55.664-04:00Boo!It is a magical day for black kitties everywhere! Mine is hamming it up over here (juggling pumpkins, growing extra arms...) I hope you have a sweet little Halloween.<br />
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Thanks for the encouragement, Jennifer in Wisconsin! It is surely appreciated right now (to be frank and honest). This author/illustrator thing is sometimes a tough business. We don't talk much in the social media sphere about the doubt and bad days and dry spells and all the other delicious mental quandaries we get ourselves into. Presently, my art and writing are like two squabbling (growing) kids over here, after years of being told to "shush" while I worked, they are very fussy and jealous and would both like all of my time, which sometimes lends to making nothing at all. Then I get stuck. </div>
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I got stuck today and called my mom. Besides being the most creative person I know, she is the best listener, someone who will walk into the thick of it with you and make you laugh at yourself. I told her writing my novel and making my picture books just can't happen at once. I told her switching my brain from one to the other <b>is like singing Christmas carols in the springtime</b> and it just won't work. She understood, and suggested something neat. She said that "maybe you just need to properly introduce them to each other." </div>
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I'm also not used to not producing final products at a rapid-fire rate, so this year of stepping back (yes, it has been a year without picture books) has been so vital for me. To <b>remember WHY I make</b>, and what I <b>REALLY REALLY WANT to make</b>. To make like I did when I was a kid, for the fun of it. A year of learning to be patient with myself, and learning that creation comes when you throw expectation out the window and remember JOY. </div>
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In these months I've "raised" (because they really do feel like your kids) a dozen picture book concepts, and a novel that came out of nowhere and needed telling. But this time around, there is no deadline, art director, editor, no agent, yet. It's just me right now. It's a frightening prospect. Are the stories worth it? Good enough? Can I do it? Should I go get a job in the city instead? These are questions as creators we will always ask ourselves, I bet. So there's some honest-to-goodness truth. Thanks for being along for the ride, friends. I'll be at the drawing board (and keyboard), working at the blank white <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Actor, sans-serif, arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px;">♥</span><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--><!--3--></div>
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It's class picture day today in Room 23. Everyone is dressed in their best pose, plaid, and pencils. I have good back to school memories, do you? The morning air has a cool edge while you wait for the bus, the smell of new erasers overpowers your jitters over gym class. A shout-out to my sister, Anna, for whom the blonde was named! More children's fashion <b><a href="http://juliadenosillustration.squarespace.com/fashion/children/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">HERE</span></a></b>.</div>
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Driving off to Maine this morning. Between the two of us: four states, two coasts, one week! Woosh! See you soon–XO</div>
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The hardest part of Seri's ordeal was encountering my human frustration with the animals I love: not being able to speak to them, especially in times of need. It would be my SUPERHERO POWER of choice. Interspecies communication is mind-bending and heart-melting when you think about it: To converse, we slowly construct a common language together with eye contact, voice, and patterns of touch. But there are moments of fear and heartbreak, when you would give anything to SPEAK CAT or RABBIT or DOG, just so you might explain. Luckily, after all he went through, Seri was still wagging his taped-up little tail when I sung to him from across the room. He was still speaking our "language" and that's the most humbling thing.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">"...Herschell indeed with his new Glass, has discovered the most magnificent Spectacle that ever was seen or imagined, and I suppose it is chiefly as a Spectacle that his Discovery is admired. If all those Single double, tripple quadruple Worlds are peopled as fully as every leaf and drop is in this, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><b>what a merry Company there is of Us, in the Universe?</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> All fellow Creatures Insects Animalcules and all. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><b>Why are We keept so unacquainted with each other?</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><b>I fancy We shall know each other better,</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> and shall see that even Cards and Routs, dancing Dogs, learned Piggs, scientific Birds are not so despicable Things as We in our wonderful Wisdom sometimes think them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The Bishop of Landaff, has made the Trees, not walk, but feel and think, and <b>why should We not at once settle it that every Attom, thinks and feels?</b> <b>An universe tremblingly alive all over. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The more We pursue these Speculations the higher Sense We shall have of the Father, and Master of all, and the firmer Expectation that all which now Appears irregular will be found to be Design. </span><br />
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Happy August! How have you been? I've missed you so, blogger buds! </div>
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Work has really ramped up. The blog and house have grown quiet except for the sounds of <b>tweeting</b> and <b>talking to my cat</b> to keep sane (do you Tweet? let's Tweet...<a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaDraw" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">@JuliaDraw</span></b></a>). </div>
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Matt is also art lead on his company's latest video game project so our little family is running an <b>art marathon</b> together! WOOSH. There are dreams of vacation in September (Virginia or Nantucket–any hotel recs. welcome!) but for now, summer exists in savored little visits: blueberry farms, escape-for-lunch dates, late night walks on Wollaston beach ("around town" Quincy pics to come). My work-away-from-home spot : <a href="http://cremacambridge.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Crema Cafe</span></b></a> in Harvard, where the food is artful, the tables have a charming wobble, and the people are tip top...</div>
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Speaking of little visits, I just had two virtual ones. One was at <a href="http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/author-interviews-2/julia-denos/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The Girls of Summer blog</span></b></a> by two award-winning authors and women whom I greatly admire,<b> <a href="http://www.gigiamateau.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Gigi Amateau</span></a></b> and <a href="http://megmedina.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Meg Medina</span></b></a>. The other was an interview with the very gracious <a href="http://www.examiner.com/review/julia-denos-talks-about-her-art-children-s-books-and-more?CID=examiner_alerts_article" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: black;">Rosa St. Claire for Examiner.com</span></b></a>. Monday, I real-life visited a beloved spot with my talented lady-friend <b><a href="http://amandaatkins.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Amanda Atkins</span></a>,</b> <a href="http://www.thecuriousgeorgestore.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The Curious George</span></b></a> store in Harvard Square. We met the lovely manager and buyer, Broche Fabian, and friendly staff and I signed some stock. As you know, this was my first place of employment in Boston, under the original owners. I'm so glad the space has reopened as a bright spot again in the heart of Harvard Square. It's beautiful!</div>
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And for a dose of beautiful, skip over to<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> <a href="http://childrensbookalmanac.com/2011/08/tuck-everlasting/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>Anita Silvey's Book-A-Day Almanac</b></span></a></span> where she is featuring Natalie Babbitt's unforgettable description of "August" today...Till next time!<br />
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