tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19139473020116119692024-02-07T06:13:39.941+01:00Bridging images by Bridget Strevens-Marzobridging images and words, books and events by author-illustrator bridget marzo Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-91827700735579298372023-12-04T12:02:00.000+01:002023-12-04T12:02:40.739+01:00<p>Is anybody there? If so, how lovely - and welcome! It's been too long. After a pandemic, the sale of my old family home, and more shuttling across the channel, here are two more picture books to announce. First...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DzTy753aHygpkncqTpQ2_9VFITkTVR-6o6lQLHDoInRC83QCdfYYHqLdUy7imWyGZB9TEDfhSgiT0-rAbzwqSJ46u4Zt7oW8N-eVj0-_h-UiRogg8TC4xW1S30VKtLF_8O2BSWP5WAT5nQhyphenhyphenAnYEIW7kWAMcjGe8_iJGIaStLMd8hfWHbShitQX5r9c/s521/small%20MarzoYouMeWholeWideWorld-paperback.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3DzTy753aHygpkncqTpQ2_9VFITkTVR-6o6lQLHDoInRC83QCdfYYHqLdUy7imWyGZB9TEDfhSgiT0-rAbzwqSJ46u4Zt7oW8N-eVj0-_h-UiRogg8TC4xW1S30VKtLF_8O2BSWP5WAT5nQhyphenhyphenAnYEIW7kWAMcjGe8_iJGIaStLMd8hfWHbShitQX5r9c/s320/small%20MarzoYouMeWholeWideWorld-paperback.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">... my dream come true - <b><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10530/9781915659194" target="_blank">YOU, ME & OUR WHOLE WIDE WORLD</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">published by the wonderful Walker Books in 2022, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">out in paperback in 2023. <a href=" https://www.walker.co.uk/You-Me-and-Our-Whole-Wide-World-9781529510010.aspx" target="_blank">Look inside!</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7LE8-CVNwJTA9p5M1Xy55Z1DkZMBidn2kRLadggy0fySbsbtdtLtX40jxBmi_Aeel19b2iyXgXY7sz2ltSQaKHpAVb8gYeDV0Fan1rY3eX8uTA0pVzrJO3AcLWFh5NpEellH3z7BYTWRy0dlE7y0VLirYBi8_qw2T9cPTY92sLje0bksZy4xm0GDqGo/s200/Mo's%20Best%20Friend%2072%20%C2%A9BridgetMarzo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="200" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7LE8-CVNwJTA9p5M1Xy55Z1DkZMBidn2kRLadggy0fySbsbtdtLtX40jxBmi_Aeel19b2iyXgXY7sz2ltSQaKHpAVb8gYeDV0Fan1rY3eX8uTA0pVzrJO3AcLWFh5NpEellH3z7BYTWRy0dlE7y0VLirYBi8_qw2T9cPTY92sLje0bksZy4xm0GDqGo/w301-h280/Mo's%20Best%20Friend%2072%20%C2%A9BridgetMarzo.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10530/9781915659194" target="_blank"><b>MO'S BEST FRIEND, A STONE AGE STORY</b></a> will be in bookshops in February 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">thanks to lovely Otter Barry books. She first popped into my head over a decade ago</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and inspired several stories about her life in the Stone Age, before she found her best friend.</div><br /><p>And what next? </p><p>Here's an early New Year's resolution for 2024....to share a little more depth than I can manage on social media in hopes it may interest you.</p><p>Now I am more settled in a semi-nomadic life between France and Cambridge and London I want to share some more nuggets of inspiration and background. </p><p>Just one question for now. Here - or on Substack? I will keep you posted!</p>Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-5931855162728465282019-10-28T21:16:00.001+01:002019-10-28T21:17:25.441+01:00Thanks for visiting!Hello and thanks for visiting!<br />
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Maybe you'll want to explore past posts as I've not been here for a while?<br />
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I do still post the occasional online article online -<br />
If you're interested in illustration process,<br />
here are few of my illustrator tips<br />
<a href="https://www.wordsandpics.org/2019/10/illustration-knowhow-engaging-characters.html" target="_blank">Engaging Characters</a><br />
<a href="https://www.wordsandpics.org/2017/09/illustrating-knowhow-mixing-tools-and.html" target="_blank">Mixing tools</a><br />
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Here's a write-up of a<a href="https://www.wordsandpics.org/2019/03/illustration-masterclass-report-writing.html" target="_blank"> Writing for Illustrators </a>workshop I gave at the House of Illustration.<br />
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-83135454354073765862018-02-14T02:24:00.000+01:002018-02-14T02:24:25.716+01:00Ongoing inspiration - author-illustrator Roger Duvoisin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The text of<b> Lonely Veronica</b> is much longer picture books are supposed to be these days and the story unusual too. </div>
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How ever did Veronica get lost at the top of a half-finished skyscraper? </div>
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And winched out of a ship - as the cover shows? I love how the ship's funnel is just a hint in the bottom corner and how the lines of rigging and net play across the front and back - and the lettering too!</div>
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But plucky Veronica wants to explore the 'good new days'. Joe the foreman makes her the machine crew pet and she joins them on a ship to American to work on building and demolishing in New York. </div>
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One day she decides to explore and finds herself in a lift up a half finished skyscraper.</div>
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Getting down is harder. She falls and is fed, oddly, by a pigeon called Alexander and finally rescued by Joe again who takes her to live by the old oak tree in his family farm.<br />
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All the pictures, in black and white and colour are works of art go add to my long list of Roger Duvoisin's illustrations in my Pintarest list of<a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/bridgimage/bridgimage-inspiration/" target="_blank"> personal inspiration</a> I put together for the lovely people at <a href="https://orangebeakstudio.com/" target="_blank">Orange Beak Studio</a> </div>
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<b>Lonely Veronica </b>was published by Bodley Head in the UK in 1964, three years after Roger Duvoisin's first book about the strong-minded hippopotamus <b>Veronica, </b> an old copy of which has been face out on my shelf for a while. </div>
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<b>Veronica</b> has been republished. Hum I wonder if <b>Lonely Veronica</b> will be?</div>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-33601561256264713512018-02-08T19:18:00.000+01:002018-02-08T22:33:45.505+01:00Booktrust Lifetime Achievement Award - ongoing!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Ongoing' is my new watchword.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been moved to resume my blog - to record just a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> few of many inspiring pearls from the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/awards-and-prizes/current-prizes/lifetime-achievement-award/">Booktrust Lifetime Achievement Award</a> I was lucky enough to attend today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When John Burningham stood up to give his acceptance speech he mentioned that a lifetime achievement award sounded so FINAL when after 55 years he felt he was just starting! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having said that, he never dreamed he'd also have the pleasure of receiving flowers from Anthony Browne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's working on a new Mr Gumpy - a 40 year old idea pulled out from a drawer but a difficult one...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He and Helen Oxenbury his wife, the joint Award winners, are not giving up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not resting on what in their case are a tremendous pile of laurels!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(And neither is Judith Kerr who confided after the event that she was starting a new idea...the difficult stage, she said)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It should be called the 'Ongoing Lifetime Achievement Award'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet, though Helen Oxenbury confessed she almost felt guilty about how much fun she's had over the 50 years of writing and illustrating, it's not easy work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Never easy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As John Burningham suggested it is the problems (like how to suggest in a picture, the smell made by a teenage elephant!) that keep us going. </span><br />
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Here's a peek at part of a lift-the-flap book project I've written.</div>
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Have just sent off one 'finished' spread, a full roughs and a text across the ocean. </div>
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It dawned on my during a brief whip around the London Book Fair last week that I am much better at promoting other illustrators than I am at pushing myself. So fingers crossed that my plucky agent Erzsi, of <a href="http://www.henandink.com/" target="_blank">Henandink</a> Literary Studio will find the right publisher for it! </div>
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I sketched out the whole book in colour but I decided that I better get all the detail I want in there as clearly as possible. So I got my Pilot fineliner pen out. I got so used to drawing with this line I thought I might well keep it for the finals.</div>
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The idea started with a photo - framed below - of my lovely daughter. When she was little she loved hiding and surprising us from unlikely hide-y-holes. I treasure this photo of her in the kitchen cupboard which ended up being a repository for recycled plastic boxes, yoghurt pots and ice cube trays - some of her favourite toys. </div>
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I ran one- hour workshops for whole Years 2- 6 plus individual classes from Nursery to Year 1.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You could say it is about getting your characters to focus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fun and stories really starts when you get that direction to a look. Then you can draw another character alongside, responding to that gaze - looking back or away. How do they feel about each other? </span>Where will they look next? <span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a great springboard for story writing too as I've shown in more detail <a href="http://bridgimage.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/character-drawing-with-tiz-and-otts-big.html" target="_blank">here</a>. (And in a shorter quick tip <a href="http://bridgimage.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/cant-draw-no-stories-heres-tip-short.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />No matter how simple or elaborately drawn, how schematic or sophisticated it's amazing to see how a focused gaze brings a drawing to life. "Like magic" as a Year 1 pupil told me, as she turned a round shape into a face and added a dot to the corner of each eye socket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even some of the talented Huddersfield illustration students preparing final year books were struggling. They tend to obsess on technique, the pressure to 'brand' your work or at the very least evoke an atmosphere. It's so easy to forget how identifying with characters can help them and their readers to enter into and point the way (literally, you could say) through a story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coincidentally after this busy week I learnt about the #PowerofPictures initiative on Twitter. Turns out that the <a href="https://www.clpe.org.uk/sites/default/files/Key%20points%20from%20Power%20of%20Pictures%20research%202017.pdf" target="_blank">Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, the CLPE </a> in collaboration with Dr Sue Horner and Janet White have been doing some great research into the power of picture books over the past 3 years - with the help of some much-loved author-illustrator colleagues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their report proves that 'getting under the skin' of characters in picture books can be useful for children in so many ways, well beyond 7 or 8 when kids are wrongly thought to be 'beyond' picture books. Many of us in publishing and in education know this but we have to convince others, especially parents anxious about their kids' reading level. Here's to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PowerofPictures?src=hash" target="_blank">#PowerofPictures</a> - and the power of pupils (excuse the pun)!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it's not just helping literacy levels. You could say it's about encouraging the development of that bit of the brain that's crucial for the survival of the human race - empathy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are a few glimpse of 'looks' empathetic - and threatening - from some illustrations I did a while back<br />
to Claire Clement's story that's just been published by Bayard France,<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> <a href="http://www.bayard-editions.com/jeunesse/petite-enfance/lecture-avec-les-petits/le-doudou-du-loup" target="_blank"> </a></span><i style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bayard-editions.com/jeunesse/petite-enfance/lecture-avec-les-petits/le-doudou-du-loup" target="_blank">Le Doudou du Loup</a></span></i></td></tr>
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-27717110718236793782016-11-29T11:29:00.000+01:002017-02-10T16:31:24.910+01:00On stage with Serge Bloch, pens and all at the South Ken Kids Festival 2016<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: left;">What a delight and honour to be drawing alongside </span><a href="http://www.sergebloch.net/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Serge Bloch</a> at the <a href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/whats-on/drawing-duo-serge-bloch-and-bridget-marzo/" target="_blank">South Ken Kids Festival</a> 2016! <span style="text-align: left;">He is such an amazing artist across many genres, and not only for children. I first came across Serge's work in France when my kids were small. My son loved the</span><a href="http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/collections/collection/770-ainsi-va-la-vie" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"> Max et Lilli</a><span style="text-align: left;"> series well before my daughter read<a href="http://www.samsam.fr/Pour-les-SamParents" target="_blank"> Sam Sam</a> in Bayard's children's magazines. Later I discovered his mind-freshening work as an artist of the line (pity there's no English equivalent to '<i>dessinateur'</i> which<i> means </i>so much more than a draw-er or daughtsperson!) in editorial work and exhibitions for t<a href="http://www.stevebrodner.com/2013/11/30/serge-bloch/" target="_blank">he US</a> as well as in France. Now </span><a href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/whats-on/carte-blanche-serge-bloch/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">The Big Adventure of a Little Line</a>, o<span style="text-align: left;">ne of my favourite books of all time, is out in English - thanks to</span><a href="http://www.thamesandhudson.com/The_Big_Adventure_of_a_Little_Line/9780500650585" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"> Thames and Hudson</a><span style="text-align: left;">. The ending always leaves me with a little lump in my throat.</span></blockquote>
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Later I joined Axel Scheffler, <a href="http://www.sophyhenn.com/" target="_blank">Sophie Henn</a>, <a href="http://www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com/" target="_blank">David Litchfield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doroth%C3%A9e_de_Monfreid" target="_blank">Dorothée de Monfreid</a>, <a href="http://www.mariannedubuc.com/" target="_blank">Marianne Dubuc</a> and other amazing South Ken Kids Festival <a href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/guests/" target="_blank">guests</a> impro drawing on stage to jazz trumpet. Can you see one of our joint drawings I found on Twitter?</div>
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Before I left London, the delectably doodly site <a href="http://www.kidcandoodle.com/" target="_blank">kidscandoodle</a> asked me to debut a new '<a href="http://drawn-out-with-bridget-marzo/" target="_blank">Drawn' interview</a>. Here's a sneak peek of just one answer. See the rest <a href="http://drawn-out-with-bridget-marzo/" target="_blank">here!</a><br />
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then off with Tiz and Ott and my <a href="http://www.bankstreetbooks.com/book/9781849763103" target="_blank">first ever US event</a> - in Manhatten at the venerable children's book store, <a href="http://www.bankstreetbooks.com/book/9781849763103" target="_blank">Bank Street Books</a><br />
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After my own booksigning - what a delight to catch up with the hugely talented author-illustrator <a href="http://www.timmillerillustration.com/" target="_blank">Tim Miller </a>in the crowd - and have him sign his books for me!<br />
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When I last saw him in the illustrator gathering at the 2014 SCBWI New York conference, he was 'aspiring'. But I knew when I saw his work he had what it takes and now he has no less than 4 books in the bag - first of which are his great illustrations to the comical <i>Snappsy the Alligator who did not ask to be in this book </i> (written by <a href="http://juliefalatko.com/" target="_blank">Julie Falatzo</a>). I treasure this book! Exciting too to get an advance copy of Tim's debut book as both author and illustrator - <i>Moo Moo in a Tutu</i> out in early 2017 and glimpse another beautiful book to be published by the innovative Brooklyn press <a href="http://enchanted-lion-books.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Enchanted Lion.</a></div>
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That is part of what we did at my recent workshop at the wonderful <a href="http://museumofthemind.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bethlem Museum of the Mind</a> (an<a href="http://www.artfund.org/prize" target="_blank"> ArtFund Museum of the Year </a>finalist) And we all had a wonderfully focused, creative time.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Armed with this substitute palette, a couple of brushes (one doing the job of a spatula and one for painting) and a long strip of paper to paint on, the first aim was to mix as many colours - as possible out of the 3 primaries - including black or near black. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Here are 4 vertical strips each by a different workshopper. They are almost like colour signatures. Everyone </span><span style="text-align: center;">comes up with their own amazingly distinctive colour range (and brush marks) from the three primaries.</span><br />
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-7255498104403375172016-06-09T18:54:00.001+02:002016-06-10T11:36:30.000+02:00Katsumi Komagata at Foyles and ELCAF in London - and his transformative, transforming booksLots to catch up with but first, a significant moment yesterday evening at Foyles - Katsumi Komagata's first talk ever in England and this coming weekend his first workshop open to all at the <a href="http://www.elcaf.co.uk/" target="_blank">ELCAF </a>festival. Big thanks to their European funded initiative that he has been able to make it to London at last!<br />
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Coincidentally earlier this year I had written about my own discovery of Komagata in the UK's Association of Illustrators Varoom Magazine. You can read my article <a href="http://lestroisourses.com/content/presses/21/img/original/57370bb222b3eVAROOM_32_Unfolding_Stories.pdf" target="_blank">'Unfolding Stories'</a> here (I love their layout!) : </div>
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It was wonderful to see Komagata talk about the series of books he created from observing and dialoguing with his daughter from 3 months till around 12 years of age (she has now just married at 27!) Here he shows one workshop piece that came out of an exchange in one of his many workshops:</div>
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I felt like it was also a part of my own personal history catching up with itself. When I lived in France I would take friends and Parsons students to see the<a href="http://lestroisourses.com/les-trois-ourses" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://lestroisourses.com/librairie" target="_blank">Trois Ourses book collection</a>. We'd explore and play with their valise of books containing Komagata's Little Eye series, and other innovative book makers from Bruno Munari onwards. </div>
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Komagata referred to how it was a librarian from France (Elizabeth Lortic who co-founded Les Trois Ourses) who spotted his Little Eye books in MoMA New York and invited him first to France. From there he has been published and done workshops in many other countries (except the UK!). His work has had an undoubted influence on the French children's publishing industry in particular.</div>
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If you are interested in a lateral view of picture books and artist's work for children, I recommend a making an appointment to visit <a href="http://lestroisourses.com/les-trois-ourses" target="_blank">Les Trois Ourses</a> in Paris.</div>
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And if you can't make the ELCAF festival this weekend, I learnt from John L. Walters of <a href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/" target="_blank">eye magazine </a>last night that you can find Komagata also in the <a href="http://www.bookartbookshop.com/" target="_blank">Bookart Bookshop</a> in London too! </div>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-32533661666727418062016-03-30T16:18:00.000+02:002016-05-10T00:57:10.032+02:00What we did at the TateJust a quick taster of what we did at Tate Britain last Saturday. Amazing artists from 3 to 10 years old and from all over the world made a special <a href="http://bridgetmarzo.com/tizz-otts-big-draw/" target="_blank">Tiz and Ott </a>Gallery. I love watching kids draw - and envy their directness - never befuddled with second thoughts! <br />
Thanks to Ella Finch for this video of us all in action. And some pics to follow.<br />
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If you are in London on Saturday March 26th, come and draw in Tate Britain! We'll be making a little Tiz and Ott gallery, from 3pm in the Octogon room beyond the main shop. </div>
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I'll be showing some quick tips though I know some children will need no guidance to get drawing! Adults can join in too - in fact anyone from ages 3 to 103. More details <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/courses-and-workshops/tiz-and-otts-big-draw" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Like many UK based author-illustrators I have been busy with school visits during 'World Book Day' - weeks of World Book Day in fact.<br />
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I love working with children and it so inspiring to see what <b>Tiz and Ott's Big Draw</b> has inspired. Some snaps from some of my recent visits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms Maynard gave her Reception Class at Lubbins Park Primary (for the Pop-Up Project in Canvey Island)<br />
free reign for inspiration - using the material of their choice. So good to see painting as well as drawing!<br />
At the top she linked the pages Tiz & Ott's Big Draw to different aspects of work by the 4-5 year olds. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Tiz in tip top form - what a happy mix of patterns and textures!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"This is Ott - he is handsome!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">some great mark making...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kew College display of work by 4- 6 year olds was full of brilliant curly whirleys - splodges, wave and - oh and on display an old book of mine, Mini Racer!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made mini books at <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">National Library Day at Minet Library in S.London -- and here's an a</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">mazing story by 6 year old Emily about a fox and a duckling.</span></td></tr>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-45801890826845834122015-11-26T23:39:00.000+01:002015-11-27T19:31:01.585+01:00The French Institute London's South Ken Kids Festival - a big drawing together.<div style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
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I felt so lucky to have been invited by the French Institute in London to participate in the <a data-mce-href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/guests/" href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/guests/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">South Ken Kids Festival</a> 2015. Everything about it was a big draw - excuse the pun. I met families who had come for the first time, having heard about it from their kid's school, and whose kids enjoyed the workshops and events so much they planned to return next year - others who are hooked, year after year.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "droid serif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 32.8213px;">From left to right: Axel Scheffler, the French Institute's first illustrator in residence Delphine Perret, me and Beatrice Alemagna. We went up spontaneously to draw</span><span style="color: #404040; line-height: 32.8213px;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; line-height: 32.8213px;">alone or more often in groups. Our drawing on A2 paper was projected onto the huge screen of Cine Lumiere.</span></span></span></div>
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Inspiring for us authors and illustrators - to meet and draw alongside each other - discuss each other's work and talk shop. Quentin Blake is the festival's patron so it is not surprising it has a strong author-illustrator focus - though there were some wonderful authors like French author Marie-Aude Murail and artists like Barroux who also work for older kids. Barroux's <a href="http://www.lineoffirebook.com/" target="_blank">Line of Fire</a> - a stunning graphic rendering of WWI soldier's diary (which he found in a skip) is out in English now, translated by Sarah Ardizzone - who also ran a translation workshop for children at the festival. Can't wait to read Alpha, the journey of an illegal immigrant from Africa in UK shops next year - here's a <a href="https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/blog/2015/11/18/alpha-by-barroux-the-story-of-an-acquisition/" target="_blank">taster</a>.</div>
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The beautifully stocked book stalls - French kid's books from <a data-mce-href="http://www.librairielapage.com/nos-livres-jeunesse/" href="http://www.librairielapage.com/nos-livres-jeunesse/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Librairie La Page</a> and a big range of English ones from <a data-mce-href="http://talesonmoonlane.co.uk/" href="http://talesonmoonlane.co.uk/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tales on Moon Lane</a> drew kids, parents and us book people too. Talk about cultural exchange! Plus, a chance to hang out a few metres away in the French Institute's well stocked cafe, talking shop with other faculty between workshops and signing sessions, and chatting with parents and kids of all nationalities.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big thank you to all the SKKF volunteers especially Rebecca Infield, Annabelle Royer for preparing the ground with friendly support for our events and school visits the preceding week. Overseeing this huge variety of events was the lively mind and charm of Lucie Campos, head of the French Cultural centre's Book Department. <span style="line-height: 26.6667px;">Lucie set the tone with her sparkly wit and real </span><em style="line-height: 26.6667px;">engagement</em></span><span style="line-height: 26.6667px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at the festival launch in the presence of Quentin Blake.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 26.6667px;"><br />All at the French Institute in London were absolutely determined to counteract the horror and fear of the Paris attacks the previous week with the best of what culture from both sides of the channel could offer children - creative workshops and play and making, meetings, music, words...and pictures. </span><span style="line-height: 26.6667px;">Beneath the joy of it all there is a serious message here, culture to oppose violence, flowers to oppose arms like the father suggests to his son in the Le Petit Journal video that's gone viral (see it </span><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3e8rah_paris-attacks-november-2015-le-petit-journal-du-16-11_tv" style="line-height: 26.6667px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="line-height: 26.6667px;"> with English subtitles),</span></div>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-91237541813766826692015-11-09T21:07:00.000+01:002015-11-09T22:37:31.699+01:00Tiz and Ott's Big Draw in the USA, Culturetheque book of the week, and it's all about character and mark making!Big news this week! My latest book, <a href="http://shop.tate.org.uk/childrens-books/tiz-and-otts-big-draw/invt/15697" target="_blank">Tiz and Ott's Big Draw</a> (out earlier this year with Tate Publishing UK) hits US shelves via<a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/tiz-and-otts-big-draw_9781849763103/" target="_blank"> Abrams Books - here- </a> and already it has earned a <a href="http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bridget-marzo/tiz-and-otts-big-draw/" target="_blank">Kirkus Star review</a>! <br />
I can't wait to cross the pond next year to get drawing with kids in schools and bookstores there.<br />
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This week too, Tiz and Ott's Big Draw is also the London <a href="http://melissamaye5.wix.com/temp-culturetheque?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer452f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com#!Childrens-Book-of-the-Week/c1kod/5631090e0cf201d72f223a2d" target="_blank">Culturetheque 'children's book of the week'</a> - wow! Next week I'm looking forward to South Ken Kids events and school workshops in London. If you are in London on Saturday November 21, come and see me, Axel Scheffler, Beatrice Allemagna and other international <a href="http://southkenkidsfestival.co.uk/guests/" target="_blank">illustrator-authors at the South Ken Kids Festival</a> at the French Institute draw live on stage!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: start;">Meanwhile here is how Tiz and Ott are doing their bit to help inspire children to create their own characters and more...</span><br />
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Busy Tiz draws, Ott likes to take his time and dabble with paint and they get carried away. What really matters is how they connect - and the story they make together. I wanted them to be simple and easy to draw so readers can focus on what THEY are drawing. So before I wrote and illustrated Tiz and Ott's Big Draw I sketched Tiz and Ott obsessively. I got to know them well enough to simplfy them.<br />
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In my story Tiz and Ott get stuck and in their very different ways, draw themselves out of their own <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/26/picture-books-for-children-reviews-wild-things" target="_blank">creative block</a>.<br />
For many older chidlren the 'I can't draw' syndrome is a killer phrase for creativity. I often hear adults say it, and the damage often starts age 10 or so - with self-conscious comparisons to peers who CAN draw. I like to share a simple remedy for this. if you know how to write' capital letters O, U and V and I - and dots - you can draw simple characters. Adults are often the most inhibited about drawing, and at family workshops it's fun to see young children take the lead for once in encouraging their parents.<br />
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I show how starting with big round O for a face, you can construct characters, placing letters within and around the face in different directions. The fun bit is ending with the dot of the eyes, the pupils, placing them carefully in a chosen area of their round eye sockets.<br />
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If you save the dots - the pupils - to the end - it really feels like you are breathing life and drama into your character.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Giving a direction to a gaze with a dot can be one way into a story.</span><br />
You create a relationship between characters or reveal their view of the world. It's a device actors use. Follow a gaze - and see how a character connect - or not - to others or to what they are doing. And when you have met your 'quick draw' characters, story telling becomes easier to create. Here's an example for starters:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">but Bob is not interested - "you can tell from how he's looking up..."</span><br />
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Using my quick draw recipe, my <a href="http://www.thebigdraw.org/" target="_blank">Big Draw </a>October got rolling and literally on track at the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/2015/oct/22/big-draw-cartoon-and-art-family-day-10-october-2015-what-we-did" target="_blank">Guardian Education Centre's Big Draw family day</a>. New families arrived every hour to draw characters to fill the windows of Tiz and Ott's train which grew and grew. Sharing out some of my own favourite drawing gear including my favourite <a href="http://www.pentel.co.uk/products.asp?group=5&type=32&pid=182" target="_blank">Pentel Brush Pens</a>, children and adults created characters and 'graffited' the carriages with a <span style="text-align: center;">range of marks inspired by Tiz and Ott's squiggles at the end of the book.</span><br />
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I asked the children as they finished, what were their characters thinking or saying?<br />
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For the <a href="http://pop-up.org.uk/" target="_blank">Pop Up</a> Peterborough festival I showed classes of 5 year olds about my work as an illustrator and author - how I started with characters and mark making<br />
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And Tiz and Ott's train travelled with me from London to the Isle of Wight then Peterborough.<br />
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Longer intensive workshops with 8-9 year olds at <a href="http://www.nineacrespri.iow.sch.uk/" target="_blank">Nineacres school</a> at the <a href="http://www.isleofwightliteraryfestival.org/iow-literary-festival-speakers.html#children" target="_blank">Isle of Wight Literary Festival</a> gave me time to help children use their characters as springboards for folded picture book stories. A big thank you the festival organizers, teachers and all the brilliant children at Nineacres, <a href="https://franceanditalyclasses.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/bridget-marzo-author-and-illustrator/" target="_blank"> Gurnard</a> and <a href="http://www.northwoodpri.co.uk/" target="_blank">Northwood School</a>s for making me so welcome!<br />
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<a href="http://www.chelseayoungwriters.co.uk/blog/" target="_blank">See here</a> to read how a mixed group of 7 to 10 year olds too their animal characters further into stories for my 3 hour Chelsea Young Writers holiday workshop.<br />
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And there was a chance to use to Ott's favourite tools - paint and brushes to thanks librarian Rosemary Marchant at the<a href="http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/30196/Culture-Bite---arts-and-crafts" target="_blank"> Hillingdon Culture Bite</a> family workshop in the happily thriving Ruislip Manor Library. After my quick draw character recipe we did mixed primary colours and white paint to create a huge variety of skin and fur colours. We had fun painting head shapes and then drew over or painted into the shapes to create another bunch of wierd and wonderful characters. What a fun crew we created!<br />
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Can you see Tiz busy holding brushes in the midst of my Hillingdon Culture Bite workshop? </div>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-77148118105551502622015-10-10T00:27:00.003+02:002015-10-10T00:28:04.910+02:00Big draw of a summer and Big Draw October!Five books in 5 months is a record for me, even if 4 are in black and white and a series and not full picture book size. <br />
Les Contes a Colorier are my adaptations of 4 fairy tales for kids to complete with their own drawing and colouring in... for French publishers Bayard Jeunesse.<br />
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Here's one of the covers I just finished.<br />
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The fifth book is an illustration commision for a picture book by a writer friend Addy Farmer. The funded project will be for a literacy drive in North Lincolnshire schools. I took it on for several reasons. I liked Addy's rhythmic text, and I couldn't resist the chance of working with her - and in schools directly concerned by the project. <br />
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And talking of schools...it's Big Draw month now so Tiz and Ott's Big Draw are taking me places!<br />
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First stop tomorrow<br />
at the Guardian Kings Place big draw family day.<br />
I will be there all day alongside a lot of wonderful artists and musicians too, including Sally Kindberg, Rebecca Ashdown, cartoonist and comic writer Harry Venning, Posy Simonds and more - encouraging everyone else to wield pencils and brushes.<br />
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-54612348797551318642015-06-14T00:31:00.001+02:002015-06-14T17:42:55.643+02:00Character building at the Shoutsouth Festival 2015, sponsored by Derwent PencilsToday was the last day of the Shoutsouth festival held at London Southbank University. <br />
Over 3 amazing days over <a href="http://www.shoutsouth.org.uk/" target="_blank">15 of us children's book authors</a> inspired over 100 children from schools all over South London to write and illustrate their own stories. We all worked and played hard - the kids especially (so focused!), accompanying teachers and us Shoutsouth authors and illustrators and what wonderful stories and pictures came out of it!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.lorettaschauer.com/" target="_blank">Loretta Schauer</a>, <a href="http://amandalillywhite.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Amanda Lillywhite,</a> <a href="http://www.deborahallwright.com/" target="_blank">Deborah Allwright</a>, <a href="http://www.gillianmcclure.com/" target="_blank">Gillian McClure</a>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.sallykindberg.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sally Kindberg</a> and...me</span></div>
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On Thursday I was asked to give a 30 minute warm-up illustration session. Starting by drawing simple circles, over 100 children ages 8 - 12, plus their teachers, and other authors drew two characters.<br />
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Afterwards a teacher told me she hadn't realized she could draw a 'relationship' between characters until she did this exercise. It works for adults who aren't used to drawing, as well as for kids who draw all the time. As I see it<br />
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1. If you can write O, U, Y and V, big and small, and draw dots, you can also draw simple animal or human characters.<br />
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2. With basic shapes, anyone can get two characters to 'connect' enough to spark a story. Add dots to their eye sockets - to direct their focus - and you can get a story jump started.<br />
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3. Even the simplest drawings have a distinctive 'stamp' or handwriting to them. Every single person in that room, young and old drew different characters.<br />
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4. Bottom line, illustration is about communicating ideas and stories. It is not<i> all just </i>about skill or talent.<br />
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There's a handout based on this <a href="http://bridgetmarzo.com/events-workshops/" target="_blank">drawing exercise on my new site</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> On the <a href="http://www.shoutaboutmagazine.com/" target="_blank">ShoutAbout magazine for kids</a> I cant't wait to see the brilliant stories the kids wrote with the help of Leopard writers, <a href="http://www.sara-grant.com/" target="_blank">Sara Grant</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/scribblerbuxton" target="_blank">Jamie Buxton</a> and <a href="http://www.samhepburnbooks.com/" target="_blank">Sam Hepburn</a></span><br />
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-72650879523132929762015-05-21T08:00:00.000+02:002015-06-13T19:51:17.538+02:00Tiz and Ott are out there at last - for real!Been a bit busy with various things, not least a deadline for four little books!<br />
I'm drawing my way out of the scribble, like in this early sketch for Tiz & Ott's Big Draw.<br />
Anyone who draws or writes may recognize the problem of getting carried away and ending up in a hole - which in Ott's case is incapacitating!<br />
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It is on the top page of a vertical pull-out page. I feel very lucky that the Tate were ready to invest in that added 'gatefold' (as publishers call it) to take children up with Tiz, up and up of the hole...<br />
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so high that Tiz has to figure out how to get down, oh dear!<br />
Like the boy who cried 'Wolf'', I feel like I've gone on a bit too much about Tiz and Ott already. But now it is out there - for real - it takes time to publish a book.<br />
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American friends who've seen Tiz and Ott ask if I knew the US classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon" target="_blank">Harold and the Purple Crayon</a> which was first published in the 1950s. I I discovered it as an adult and recommend that wonderful book to anyone who has watched a line they have drawn turn into a kind of journey. <br />
As I child I only knew the <a href="http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/genre/ant/Ant-and-Bee.html" target="_blank">Ant & Bee </a> books which have recently been reprinted. I have always loved stories with two characters responding to the world in different ways. I think that's why Tiz and Ott started out in these little mini books, a bunch of short rhyming stories I am still writing more of, which are yet to be published.<br />
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When I started thinking about Tiz and Ott, I didn't know of any contemporary stories about ANY characters that draw or paint their way into another world. Doodle books, yes - I illustrated <a href="http://www.bridgetstrevens.com/petitesmains.html" target="_blank">two big doodle books</a> myself. But though in my case, each page had its own story for kids to doodle into it wasn't like creating fully fledged picture book story with its own arc.<br />
Now there is a spate of wonderful picture books about characters that create in different ways from books like <a href="http://andrew%20drew%20and%20drew%20by%20barney%20saltzberg%20-%20youtube/" target="_blank">Andrew Drew and Drew</a> to the <a href="http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/view/33212" target="_blank">Days the Crayons Quit</a>. Spirit of the times!<br />
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Anyway <a href="http://shop.tate.org.uk/childrens-books/tiz-and-otts-big-draw/invt/15697&bklist=icat,4,shop,books,childrenbooks" target="_blank">Tiz and Ott's Big Draw</a> is now out with <a href="http://shop.tate.org.uk/childrens-books/tiz-and-otts-big-draw/invt/15697&bklist=icat,4,shop,books,childrenbooks" target="_blank">Tate publishing</a> in UK bookshops and museum shops. And it will land on US bookshelves thanks to distribution by <a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/" target="_blank">Abrams</a> in November 2015.<br />
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SO - if by happy chance you are in London on June 4 please join me to raise a glass to cheer Tiz and Ott off into to the world at my launch at <a href="http://talesonmoonlane.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tales on Moon Lane</a>. You will find the details (plus!) in this drawn-to-music one minute video. Big thanks to Ella Finch for this video and her perfect timing of my scribbles to music!<br />
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-42911907637021562652015-04-04T12:46:00.000+02:002015-04-23T09:50:19.442+02:00China part 2 Tiz & Ott ...in Beijing! The Bookworm Festival, and more surprises and delights<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my previous post I showed photos of about my first two days of of kids workshops and talks in Beijing at the generous invitation of the China Bookworm Literary Festival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More words this time - about timing and serendipity and the Festival and more photos of Beijing to end with - and hey, I had time to do one sketch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my Beijing Bookworm kid's workshop I go back to my beautiful zen hotel room at the Beijing <a href="http://www.theoppositehouse.com/#/the-rooms/studio/studio-45/" target="_blank">Opposite House</a> (a room I'd like to take home!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wow! In my room are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">two advance copies of my new book.</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Juliette my designer at the Tate Publishing in London has organized a speedy delivery across China from the printers in Shanghai..</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The ladder works beautifully! </span><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">Tiz Ott's Big Draw is real at last - </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">and ready to hit the shelves in May 2015</span><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ere I am in China - the other end of the world from where I drew and endlessly grew those two little characters, gathering doubts then finally the courage to show it to the Tate. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he long wait for publication is almost over. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to hurry to my planned meeting with Niu Shuo, the picture book publisher whom I met in our panel talk the first evening. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She travels two hours across Beijing to show me her lovely books and catalogue. Now I can show her my latest too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Niu Shuo, general manage of t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">he Mengxi Jindian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">holding my book. And </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am holding </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the first book she shows me. Surprise! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the Chinese co-edition of a book illustrated by none other than <a href="http://www.laynmarlow.co.uk/book/a-very-strange-creature/" target="_blank">Layn Marlow</a>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my dear friend who is a mainstay of our picture book critique group in London!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the cover of the Mengxi Jindian </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Culture Communication Co.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">publisher's catalogue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;"> reminded her of Chinese calligraphy. I replied that as a student I had spent two intense years studying Classical and Modern Chinese and culture. I have forgotten most of the Mandarin I learnt so rapidly at 20, but I loved writing Chinese characters. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Fingers crossed there will be a Chinese edition of the book - as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I want to return to China, improve my Chinese and do more workshops there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;">Friends have asked me to write more about the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;">China Bookworm Festival itself. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;">It takes place in the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://beijingbookworm.com/about-us/" target="_blank">Bookworm </a>bookshop-library-bar-restaurant-event spaces in three centres, Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I'm full of admiration for Peter Goff the managing director of the Beijing Bookworm, and Daniel Clutton in Suzhou and all those working for it.</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">We’ve created Bookworm Literary Festival to be a forum for thought and dialogue – fundamentals of a progressive society. Literature is an ongoing, live, global discussion, and Bookworm Literary Festival is proud to be part of it."</span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was proud to be part of the China Bookworm this year too!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year w</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">riters as diverse as</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Tahar Ben-Jalloun, Victoria and Ian Hislop (whom I didn't meet) to the venerable poet and translator of Jose Luis Borges, <a href="http://www.willisbarnstone.org/willisbarnstone.org/WillisBarnstone.org__Complete_Bibliography.html" target="_blank">Willis Barnstone</a> (whom I was lucky enough to meet) came from all corners of the world. I was sorry to miss</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://stephenmooser.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Stephen Mooser,</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> writer and SCBWI co-founder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still I was delighted to a couple of talks with friend and fellow children's author-illustrator </span><a href="http://www.franelessac.com/news/fast-plane-to-china/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Frane Lessac</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from Australia. More about our time in Suzhou coming in next post!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am so grateful to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;"> Peter Goff and his team for selecting me out of an amazing international list of authors and illustrators, and for making me feel so welcome. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;">Thanks too to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Olivia Liu SCBWI China regional advisor, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.angelacerrito.com/" target="_blank">Angela Cerrito</a> and <a href="http://www.kathleenahrens.com/home.html" target="_blank">Kathleen Ahrens </a> International SCBWI (all authors too) for recommending me and to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">my dear friend and desk sharer, author-illustrator </span><a href="http://sallykindberg.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">Sally Kindberg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> who had gone through 3 years ago, for encouraging me to take up the surprise invitation that I received back in November. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">You can find more about the festival </span><a href="http://bookwormfestival.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #424242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">. Also a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20px;"> huge thanks to the volunteers and the sponsors for their generosity. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Beijing</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Bookworm volunteers Carol Zhang, Naina, and Jack were perfect guides around the city when my work was done. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My one free day in Beijing was spent with lovely Bookworm volunteer </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What a huge place...full of tourists from all over China, but </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">there were plenty of details to discover - I found the roofs fascinating </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So many interesting contrasts of old and new!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a fascinating key to some of these contrasts thanks to a book I found at the Beijing Bookworm, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/china-in-ten-words-by-yu-hua-7858727.html" target="_blank">China in Ten Words, by the writer Yu Hua,</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">The hotel is one of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the happy bilingual <a href="http://daystarchina.cn/stories/all#530" target="_blank">Daystar Academy </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">where 90% of the children</span><br />
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I'm excited and honoured to have been invited to China by the <a href="http://bookwormfestival.com/" target="_blank">Bookworm Festival.</a><br />
I arrive in Beijing on March 24, 2015 and will be giving workshops and talks for children, and adults in Beijing, Suzhou, and return from Shanghai on April 1.<br />
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So now for some sheep. I had to hunt in my archives. I did these two pictures in 2005 for Bayard's Popi magazine and they were reprinted in my first big 64-page doodle book, <b>Les Petites Mains Dessinent</b>..<br />
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For each of the 64 page, Marie-Pascale Cocagne and I came up with a simple visual story for kids to play their role in the white spaces. We avoided telling the kids to 'draw'.<br />
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At that time the only other doodle books around were for older kids - wonderful black and white conceptual drawing books - by <a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/tarogomi/" target="_blank">Taro Gomi</a> who is still going strong with <a href="http://www.abramsandchronicle.co.uk/search/Taro+gomi" target="_blank">Chronicle</a> books.<br />
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The book and its sequel <a href="http://www.bridgetstrevens.com/book_shapes.htm" target="_blank">The Big Book of Shapes</a> travelled with co-editions including Tate Publishing UK (Abrams US) who published it in 2006 as<b> T<a href="http://www.bridgetstrevens.com/petitesmains.html" target="_blank">he Big Book for Little Hands</a> </b>and it was shortlisted for a British Book Design award. </div>
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Talking of books travelling reminds me...just before China I am giving a masterclass at the House of Illustration. It is on Saturday afternoon March 21 - and run by SCBWI British Isles but open to all to sign up <a href="https://britishisles.scbwi.org/events/illustration-series-international-publishing-opportunities/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I have enthused <a href="http://bridgimage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/from-scbwi-winchester-conference-to.html" target="_blank">more than once before</a> after signing my books at the inspiring treasure trove of books that is the French national children's book fair (the Salon du Livre Jeunesse). What a paradise for lovers of children's books, old and young! Surely it is one of the reasons why French children's publishing thrives. </div>
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Is there an enterprising someone who could dig out a nice big exhibition space and rally British children's publishers here to create the equivalent - a national 'selling' fair for the UK children's book market? It would be such a big boost for the UK publishing industry, bookshops included. </div>
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French publishers at the Montreuil work with different independent bookshops who run the sales tills at each of their stands at the book fair. The point is that unlike at the London Book Fair, publishers could actually <i>sell </i>books (and apps and a few related products) directly to parents and children of all ages (babies too!) school groups (in France they come in their droves to visit the fair, sometimes with special book tokens to spend) as well as teachers, librarians, book lovers and art students, not to mention us authors and illustrators.</div>
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Here's my illustrator's eye view from the Bayard stand, as armed with coloured pencils and stickers I got ready to sign my new book, <i>Bridget's Book of English </i>(That's the title my French publishers chose). It's a large board book full of flaps and details - and English words - showing a funny furry family going through their day. On the back is a QR code and link to a site where I pronounce every word online - and be warned - I even sing the few songs in the the book. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.regisfaller.com/index.php?a=categorie&id=3" target="_blank">Regis Faller</a>, the creator of Polo, was signing just to my left. Polo is the adventurous dog whose exploits feature in brilliant wordless comic books for pre-readers. Polo is a big success in France and also won a prize in the US. I told Regis that I was lucky enough to witness our Bayard editor Isabelle Bézard presenting it </span><span style="text-align: center;">at our SCBWI Bologna conference some years back and as a result</span><span style="text-align: center;"> the <a href="http://www.hbook.com/2014/03/choosing-books/horn-book-magazine/interview-neal-porter/#_" target="_blank">great editor Neal Porter</a>, of Roaring Brook bought the US rights for Polo.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">At the 2011 Bayard stand at the fair, I signed my books alongside a very popular friend, </span><a href="http://bridgimage.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/my-signing-at-french-childrens-book.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Hervé Tullet</a>. Some of his books were on a table behind me. Bayard sold coeditions to Tate UK/ Abrams US of my books and Herve's. It was great to watch Hervé perform and interact with kids and adults of all ages at the <a href="http://www.herve-tullet.com/en/boite-31/workshop-at-the-Tate-Modern.html" target="_blank">Tate</a> when I first moved back to London. He is amazing - and he continues to create stunningly innovative books which are causing a stir in the US too. Bayard published one of his first big doodle books in the same format as my <i>Petites Mains Dessinent (The Big Book for Little Hands) </i>which - hooray....<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Art, doodles and drawing books were everywhere too this year - in books and on backcloths. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Above is the Sarbacane stand which published one of my favourite books this year by </span><a href="http://editions-sarbacane.com/la-grande-histoire-dun-petit-trait/" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Serge Bloch</a><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It felt appropriate that the art and new kids book publishers <a href="http://www.thamesandhudson.com/catch.html" target="_blank">Thames & Hudson</a> had a stand at Montreuil. (Wish I had had enough battery left to photograph their wares!)</span></div>
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<br />Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-74632592585061322452014-10-30T03:07:00.004+01:002014-10-30T17:25:01.707+01:00Back on the blog!Does anyone other than a fellow illustrator, have any idea how long it can take to be 'fresh and spontaneous' on paper?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just SOME of the Tiz & Ott trial covers above my desk - obsessive moi? </td></tr>
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I did so many versions of the cover for my next book,<b> </b>TIZ AND OTT'S BIG DRAW and there was always some (admittedly often tiny) thing that was just not quite right - a bit stiff, not fresh enough. Early this morning, in desperation, I totally redrew and re-painted the front cover, for the umpteenth time. And this time it worked! The cover took less than an hour to finish. That said, days of struggle lay behind that short burst. By noon I was showing it to my lovely editor at the Tate and it worked for her too - oof! <br />
Tate Publishing is right next door to Tate Britain so I popped in afterwards for another burst of the great <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-late-turner-painting-set-free" target="_blank">Late Turnershow, Painting Set Free</a>. Talk about fresh! Vortexes of light radiating out from storms and skies...<br />
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So here I am, back on the blog, to share some good news and some work done this year.<br />
I was so surprised and honoured to find that this picture from TIZ AND OTT'S BIG DRAW<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiz and Ott brushed and doodled (...) scrawled and splattered.....and together they made their own way....<br />
TIZ AND OTT's BIG DRAW ©Bridget Marzo</td></tr>
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was selected for the prestigious <a href="http://www.theaoi.com/awards/awards-shortlist.php?type=&catid=3" target="_blank">Association of Illustrators 2014 Shortlist</a> in the children's book category. Great company - including favourites like <a href="http://lemoneyed.com/" target="_blank">Katherina Manolessou</a>, <a href="http://www.carolinesheldonillustrators.co.uk/illustrator/92f3f1cc727e98afcaf80d1bdad14803" target="_blank">Nadia Shireen </a>and my fellow SCBWI member<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JuliaWoolfIllustration/posts/651932534902457?comment_id=671712776257766&offset=0&total_comments=7&notif_t=feed_comment_reply" target="_blank"> Julia Wool</a><u>f.</u><br />
<a href="http://www.theaoi.com/awards/winner-details.php?id=77" target="_blank">Chris Haughton</a> was the category winner and deservedly so. By chance I had written about him not long before for <a href="http://www.varoom-mag.com/?p=7253" target="_blank">Varoom</a> - focusing on one of my favourite illustration topics, empathy.<br />
This rainbow picture above has also been selected to tour with the juried <i>Illustrator Showcase </i>which opens at the SCBWI British Isles Conference in Winchester this Saturday November 1st.<br />
A few prints will be on sale there for the charity <a href="http://www.warchild.org.uk/about" target="_blank">War Child.</a> It will then tour next summer to <a href="http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/default.aspx" target="_blank">Seven Stories</a>, the National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle.<br />
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The rainbow follows the storm which Tiz and Ott whip up as they fight over their crayon and brush and get carried away. When I painted this picture months back, I hadn't looked at a Turner storm since I was a teenager. But something must have sunk in - not that I am comparing myself to the master I should add!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiz and Ott are carried away. TIZ AND OTT's BIG DRAW ©Bridget Marzo</td></tr>
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Oh and <b>Bridget's Book of English </b>is out with Bayard Jeunesse France. This Saturday I'll be showing it at the SCBWI Mass Book Launch party. It's a book of 200 first English words following a furry family through the day with 30 lift-the flaps - AND on the back there is a QR code link on line to me pronouncing every single word - I kind of sing a couple of songs too. I'll create a proper web site page for it as soon as I have a moment and before I sign it at the <a href="http://www.salon-livre-presse-jeunesse.net/" target="_blank">French Children's Bookfair in Montreuil, Paris</a> on Saturday November 29, 2014 and do a workshop for the <a href="http://www.anglofun.fr/" target="_blank">Anglofun schools </a>in Paris the following day.<br />
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In September I was asked to blog on the <i><a href="http://www.wordsandpics.org/2014/09/childrens-magazines-and-working.html" target="_blank">Words and Pictures </a></i> about working for children's magazines, just as I was finishing illustrations to a picture book length story in record time for Belles Histoires, the French children's magazine published by Bayard. <br />
Here's what my studio wall looked like in July...<br />
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There are lots of cats in the story - that was the easy part - but I've never been asked to illustrate a spoilt princess - a new challenge, let alone an indulgent king talking to a mouse - all in costume. <br />
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Last news but not least is I have broken my own record doing more creative workshops than ever before with children this year in schools, libraries in and out of the UK - and I love it workshopping. But more about all that later!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My books ready for signing at the British Book in Paris - <b>Bridget's Book of English </b>and a reprint of <i><b>Petites Mains Dessinent</b></i> just out with a new blue cover</td></tr>
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Thank you <a href="http://www.andrewweale.com/andrewweale/blog_roll.html" target="_blank">Andrew Weale</a> for introducing me and <a href="http://www.chitrasoundar.com/" target="_blank">Chitra Soundar</a> into the blog tour called <i>My Writing Process</i>! Andrew is a presenter as well as a writer extraordinaire. I'll never forget how he entranced a theatre full of schoolchildren and teachers with his antics and stories at our <a href="http://www.shoutsouth.org.uk/" target="_blank">CWISL Shoutsouth festival 2013</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://readingagency.org.uk/children/005-get-involved/world-book-day-2014.html" target="_blank">World Book</a> events and deadlines last week had me stumbling when I should have grabbed the blog baton. Woke up early this morning thinking it's not too late to stagger into action.<br />
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<b>1. What am I working on?</b></div>
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I'm working on the endpapers (the inside cover pages, which are sometimes just plain paper) for my 'big' picture book story, <b><i>Tiz and Ott's Big Draw</i></b>, due out with Tate Publishing UK next year. I hope to show the dummy for the book this coming <a href="http://bologna.scbwi.org/scbwi-bologna-book-fair-2014/showcase-schedule/" target="_blank">Monday March 24th at my <span id="goog_1713012953"></span>4pm Showcase in Bologna</a> (at the SCBWI stand, Hall 26 stand A66 if you're going...)<br />
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Tiz, a high-energy scribbler of a cat, and Ott, a low-energy dabbler and donkey (who are both dozing at the top of this blog) started life in 4 little dummy books I put together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">My first tiny Tiz & Ott dummy books - 7 spreads per book & no bigger than a child's hand</td></tr>
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Tiz and Ott remind me as much of my own 'quick, quick, slow' way of working as of my two children. And I love stories about partnerships. I was fascinated by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AntAndBeeBooks" target="_blank"><i>Ant and Bee</i></a> as a small child, and much later by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad" target="_blank"><i>Frog and Toad</i></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/George-Martha-James-Marshall/dp/0395199727" target="_blank"><i>George and Martha</i></a>. </div>
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Now my two characters, Tiz and Ott, are put to bed for the moment, for the endpapers, I've been using crayons & brush to make all kinds of marks, splodges, splashes, zig zags, scumbles and scribbles - the sort of things they make - and finding words to label them. Here's part of one rough for the endpapers just to give you an idea.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rough sketch for endpapers for Tiz & Ott's Big Draw</td></tr>
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Well I've two obsessions which both creep into my work.</div>
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My first obsession is drawing and painting...so that connects to<b><i> Tiz and Ott's Big Draw.</i></b> It might make my work a teeny bit different. </div>
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The other obsession is about communication and foreign languages. Years back, I included a few foreign words in my very first books in a series, <a href="http://www.bridgetstrevens.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Toto's Travels</i></b>,</a> about a young boy's adventures in other countries. My next book is a French book called, oddly enough, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Bridget's Book of English. </i>Now, that's a 'different' title, especially for a French picture book!</div>
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Art and language again. All my life, I've lived among paintings, not all my own. I wanted to go to art school but seemed to be good at passing exams so ended up studying at King's College, Cambridge. There was no art option, though they had a studio we could use in our spare time, and later I discovered that Kate Greenaway medalist <a href="http://www.janpienkowski.com/home.htm" target="_blank">Jan Pienkowski</a> went there too. My two obsessions again. I studied Chinese for part 1 of my degree and loved memorizing a written language with visual rather than phonetic roots. I finished my degree studying art history - and connections between late 19th century French painting and poetry. </div>
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Now I could push it and claim that Tiz's crayon and Ott's paintbrush could be traced back to the contest between line and colour in mid 19th century France. Tiz would have followed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ingres_-_Mme_Victor_Baltard_%26_sa_fille_Paule.jpg" target="_blank">Ingres'</a>s linear drawing, and Ott would have enjoyed <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg" target="_blank">Delacroix'</a>s painterliness if they'd been 19th century eccentrics. And like Tiz and Ott, I know all too well what it's like to get carried away, and draw or paint yourself into a hole...</div>
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pretend 'finished' spread from my sketchbook - not the final version.</td></tr>
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As for language...I mentioned in my previous post, how as a child I once found myself in a French playground surrounded by kids staring at me and saying things I couldn't understand. I felt like I had just landed from Mars. Besides, my mother was Catalan, from Barcelona and was always asking me and my father, who was an East Londoner, to speak more clearly. I guess that's why I speak with a Linguaphone standard accent and why I can relate to kids who are newcomers anywhere. My own children were born of us English parents and raised in France. They are totally bilingual and in a sense, immigrants in both countries.</div>
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I hope kids will feel welcomed by the deliberately non-specific furry family in <i style="font-weight: bold;">Bridget's Book of English </i>(see the cover on my previous post here),<i> </i>and enjoy spotting all the little stories going on in the pictures and under the flaps. </div>
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Really I write with pictures.</div>
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I start in a a cheap A4 size sketchbook jotting down text and thumbnails and sometimes I'll pretend to myself it's the finished book, just to keep on track. Pictures and/ or words emerge together or alternately...rarely entirely separately.<br />
Here's an early spread from first thumbnails thoughts about <i><b>Tiz & Ott.</b></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of a rough plan for what turned out to be <b><i>Tiz & Ott's Big Draw</i></b>.</td></tr>
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And here's a couple of early ideas for <b><i>Bridget's Book</i></b>...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Details of a page of text in my A4 sketchbook for <i><b>Bridget's Book of English</b></i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two pages later into the <b><i>Bridget's book</i></b> sketches and I'm already pretending I'm doing the final book content...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the final artwork - developed from the top left of previous sketch<br />
for <b><i>Bridget's Book of English,</i></b> Bayard France September 2014.</td></tr>
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Next week I'll pass the baton over to two dear, unique writer-illustrator friends. </div>
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Or are they illustrator-writers? Wait till next week to find out!</div>
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I've a duel with <a href="http://www.sallykindberg.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>S</b>ally Kindberg</a> next Monday in <a href="http://bologna.scbwi.org/scbwi-bologna-book-fair-2014/" target="_blank">Bologna at 2:30pm</a>. Our weapons will be pens or charcoal and two easels and we'll draw instant illustrations to a read-aloud, unknown picture book text. Sally has written and illustrated many children's books as well as travel features which involved going to Elf School in Iceland among other things. She has illustrated a series of comic strip books for Bloomsbury, and is now working on her <b><i>Draw it!</i> </b>series.<b> </b><b><i>Draw It - London </i></b>is due out in May. See her blog <a href="http://www.sallykindberg.co.uk/notebook/" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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<a href="http://www.janeporter.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jane Porter's</a> latest book <b><i>This Rabbit That Rabbit </i></b>is out now with Walker Books and she is currently preparing an exhibition of woodcut and collage inspired by the River Thames. See more of her work <a href="http://www.janeporter.co.uk/whats-new" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Look forward to seeing their writing process next!</div>
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Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1913947302011611969.post-41749719204396511222014-03-12T02:18:00.000+01:002014-03-12T09:14:06.047+01:00Bridget's Book of English for the French and World Book Week<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proposed cover for my flap book of first English words for Bayard, France</td></tr>
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Barely landed from a wonderfully inspiring and long-saved up for trip to New York than I was off doing workshops with budding authors and illustrators under 10 years old, at the <a href="http://www.chelseayoungwriters.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chelsea Young Writers Group</a>. <br />
Then to talks for World Book Week at the brand new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtizanStreetLibrary" target="_blank">Artizan Street Library </a>in the City, back near my home ground of East London. What wonderfully attentive kids!<br />
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So many children here, in East as well as West London, are recent immigrants. I can relate to them. I have an early memory of being in a French playground surrounded by children staring at me (at best looking concerned) because I couldn't understand them. I think it's that feeling of being different, estranged, that made me want to come up with a book specfically about recognizing words through pictures. And a lift-the-flap book that's fun to play with, rather than a manual. I want the furry family of whatdyoucallems to be welcoming for any kid anywhere. Can't wait to see the final maquette for this book when I go to the Bologna Book Fair in less than 2 weeks!Bridget Marzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08113818186666446243noreply@blogger.com0