Chapter 2 of Tuck Everlasting provides us with a beginning Character Study of Mae Tuck, just as is about to enter a new chapter of her life — a New Dawn. And so, at dawn, that day in the first week of August, Mae Tuck woke up and lay for a while beaming at the…
Category: Character Study for Illustration
Point of View and Perspective in Literature
What Is Point of View in Literature? Generally speaking, Point of View has to do with how a story is told–whether the narrator is telling the story himself or whether another uninvolved narrator is telling the telling the story. In My Humble Opinion, Perspective and Point View Are Different. Many might disagree with my opinion….
Darkness Slipped In – Picture Book by Ella Burfoot
Image Credit Macmillan “Daisy was thinking of a game to play When Darkness slipped in at the end of the day. “He came in through the window and spread out on the floor. While Daisy danced and laughed and played then danced around some more. “Pretending that he wasn’t there, he slid along the wall….
Wacom Cintiq 16 – Pushing My Traditional Watercolor Illustrations to Another Level
Boy with Curls Jacki Kellum Traditional Watercolor Sketch Painted in 2018 I have always liked the wispy, fresh and almost tentative look of watercolor, but I originally trained as an oil painter. In fact, I trained as an abstract expressionist. When I began writing picture books, I switched to watercolor. At that time, traditional watercolor…