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		<title>Author-illustrator Keith Graves: Ace kids&#8217; yarn spinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might not learn all you want to know about children&#8217;s book author illustrator Keith Graves from his website &#8211; like, what is the name of the rock band he was founding member of and still plays in? (Answer: The Whispering Javelinas.) But you&#8217;ll find answers to the important questions, like,  How did he learn to draw? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2979736&amp;post=6090&amp;subd=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2979736&amp;post=6067&amp;subd=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conjuring a young witch&#8217;s world in watercolor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Texas BFA grad Marsha Riti worked at her first creative love, ceramics before she saw an opportunity to make some extra money with her studio art craft &#8212; illustrating books for children. She did some additional study (including taking my class at the AMOA Art School), joined the Austin chapter of the Society of Children&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2979736&amp;post=5131&amp;subd=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Karien&#8217;s Creative Cache</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We first interviewed children&#8217;s illustrator Karien Naude of South Africa back in May 2009. Back then she was just starting, completely self-taught as an artist and working as a paralegal at a law firm in downtown Johannesburg. She was among the first students to sign up for Make Your Splashes Make Your Marks. Somehow we were friends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2979736&amp;post=4993&amp;subd=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children&#8217;s book illustrator Patrice Barton begins a picture book with a spiral ruled notebook that she soon fills with ideas, tactics and to-do checklists related to the project. It&#8217;s almost as if the words come first.&#160;The drawings, which for her are a series of tireless explorations only a tiny fraction of which make it to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2979736&amp;post=4842&amp;subd=howtobeachildrensbookillustrator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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