My new picture book on all the things Drawing Is....and might be. Wit and wisdom from 20 years in art education, and also personal experience with scribbling and crumpling up paper and starting over with yet another draft.
It's an approach to drawing that addresses the inner narrative—how do we talk to ourselves about the drawing while we are drawing? What strategies are useful to think and work around obstacles? Usually, oneself is the obstacle. Tutorials and exercises are sprinkled throughout this serious and silly book, for use in starting, or restarting, or refining a personal practice.
All skill levels. Reading level middle grade +
Find it at a bookstore near you, or online - HERE
School Library Journal (Starred Review):
“Neri’s words and Haidle’s pictures demonstrate how Christo and Jeanne-Claude demanded people to “see and see again,”… [the book is] a discussion on the meaning of art, the relation of nature to art, the connection of humans to their environment."
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Published in German, by Aladin Books
Published in French, by La Pasteque
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A sci-fi graphic novel collaboration with my brother, Paul du Coudray.
Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story, expect to hear about mystical plants, bumbling robots, interspace travels & reality-shifts.
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Based on a true story about a ten year old girl in England—Venetia Burney—who named a planet. Written by Alice B. McGinty,
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What were our best-loved illustrators up to, in early childhood, before they became artists? Featuring: Wanda Gag, Maurice Sendak, Tove Jansson, Jerry Pinkney, Yuyi Morales, Hayao Miyazaki.
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What were our best-loved authors up to in early childhood? Featuring: Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Dr. Seuss, Sandra Cisneros, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling, Beatrix Potter, C.S. Lewis, Gene Luen Yang, and Madeleine L'Engle.
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