CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

CBIG - MOTHER GOOSE RE-IMAGINED Dec 6, 2012 - Jan 16th, 2013 Opening reception: Thurs, Dec 6th  - 6 -8pm Exhibiting members include: Angelique Anderson • Deborah Cuneo • Diana Ting Delosh • Laura Goetz • Leeza Hernandez • Mike Herrod • Sara Kahn • H. Ruth Karpes • Anna Kim • Ann Koffsky • Lisa Lavoie • Kitty Leech • Donna Miskend • Sawaka Norii •Marilyn Papas • Clare Pernice • Barbara Mason Rast • Roberta Rivera • Vicky Rubin • Tatyana Starikova • Cheryl Taborsky • T. T. Tyler • Wallace West • Brian Yanish Gallery hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat - 10am - 5pm Thurs 10am  - 8pm Sun 1pm - 5pm Flinn Gallery Greenwich Greenwich Library, 2nd floor 101 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, CT 06830 203-622-7947   http://www.flinngallery.com show is sponsored by Friends of Greenwich Library Check our CBIG Events & Exhibit News Blog to see what we're up to  or visit the CBIG  website.

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 New Illustration Website! -   deborahcuneoillustration.com  I'm very excited to announce the launching of my new website! I hope you'll check it out and let me know what you think, either in the contact form on the site or here on the blog in the comment section. To join my mailing list, just use the contact form on the website. Looking forward hearing from you!!

Once Upon A Midnight picture book Story by Kelly Morrison Handerhan  Illustrations by Diana Ting Delosh I'm happy to announce that the illustrations for Once Upon A Midnight  are now finished, published and available on Amazon as a picture book. I had a lot of fun illustrating  Andy the Pug on his midnight romp as he investigates the source of some mysterious howling. Is it banshees Or worse...baby? I even had the opportunity to create the illustrated title type. I will be blogging about my illustration process behind this book on my blog dtdelosh.blogspot.com . Just click on Once Upon a Midnight to buy on Amazon. Please visit my website: dianadelosh.com .

Marley's Ghost ©Donna Miskend 2012   Scrooge sees his old partner Marley's ghost in the door knocker. Here Lies Ebenezer Scrooge ©Donna Miskend 2012  I chose to focus attention on the moment when Scrooge sees his name on the tombstone in a neglected cemetery, destined to be forgotten if he doesn't change his ways. Both illustrations are from Dickens'  A Christmas Carol. My web site: www.DonnaMiskend.com  or click here blog: www.DonnaMiskend.blogspot.com or click here new blog, conversations with people in the arts: click here  theater, art, literature

I too chose The Old Curiosity Shop , since I like the idea of old curiosities. The first image shows 14-year-old Little Nell in the center, with her grandfather leading the way through the shop where the two live. The man in back has just helped Nell find her way home.  Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their home because he has lost all their money gambling. Nell goes to work for a traveling wax-works show. Image 2 shows her nervously sharing a room with the wax-works.  The last image shows the evil Quilp horrifying his wife (in back) and mother-in-law as he gobbles down breakfast in a most uncivilized manner, bending the silver and even eating shrimp and eggs with their shells on. You can see more of my work at  illustracious.blogspot.com   and   doodlesoop.com .

I  have a page of sketches from 7th grade of characters from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities .  I show it as part of my school visit presentation.  Our literature text book had no pictures.  My illustration-deprived classmates were excited by my drawings of Madame De Farge and others in the story. That reaction was one of my motivators to become an illustrator.   I googled "underrated Dickens novels".   The Old Curiosity Shop is an early novel, written serially.  Dickens' early characters were black and white, not as nuanced as in his later books.  It's the story of Nell, on the edge of maturity, whose grandfather is a gambling addict.  Nell gets Grandfather out of town to flee the clutches of the evil money lender Daniel Quilp.  Nell is the angel of the story. I've suggested a halo with her bonnet.   Daniel Quilp, who has no redeeming qualities, appears in his wharf shack surrounded by smoke from a faulty chimne...