Entries by johnmanders

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Some really big letters

When you come up the stairs to the second floor of the National Transit Building (where us artists are) you’re greeted with gorgeous woodwork and beige walls.  It looks office-building-ish. And so we’re letting everyone know in a big, big way that they’ve stepped into an art environment.  The walls got a coat of lavender […]

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Some character sketches

It’s been a busy place around here.  I’m painting 2 books and my bookshelf/storage cabinet project is finally finished. April & May were full of many fun visits to elementary schools and a couple of literacy conferences. Luckily I have an intern this summer, so we’re able to handle more work than I can accomplish by […]

Almost there

More on the bookshelf and cabinet project in my studio. This is the cabinet built by Rocky’s Woodworking.

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PAWcasso

I’m looking forward to PAWcasso on Saturday!  It’s an art auction to benefit the Venango County Humane Society.  If you live within driving distance, come on by & snap up a piece of art—it’s a worthy cause. I’ve donated an illustration from Señor Don Gato—this spread:

Illustrating in different languages

Steve from Mrs. Gallagher’s class asks: How do you illustrate books in different languages? The simple answer to that question is: I don’t. The manuscript that I receive from the publisher is always in English (remember, the manuscript is the story before it’s made into a book; the publisher is the company that makes the […]

Busy, busy, busy

Sorry I’ve been lax with the blog posts lately.  It’s been a hopping season for school visits as well as my usual book projects.  On top of all that I’ve been trying to organize my spectacularly disorganized studio by installing some bookshelves and a cabinet. I ordered 4 bookshelf units from Woodland Mills.  They send […]

Bird gods very angry

That’s the title of my entry for the bird house auction, which will benefit the Allegheny Valley Trails Association.  Here are samples from 2009.  Artists around here are asked to paint a wooden bird house, which will be displayed somewhere  around Franklin or Oil City and finally auctioned during May Mart (at least I think […]

Mnemonics

Here’s the answer to my last post, ‘Gen-Xer loves numbers duty’.  When I was teaching Sunday school at Third Church I thought it would be cute to draw some cartoons to help students memorize stuff—in this case, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.  I couldn’t quite make it […]