picture books

Fall Book Harvest

| kirsti

Fall Book Harvest Logo

The North Vancouver City Library, the BC Coalition for School Libraries and CWILL BC present the Fall Book Harvest on Friday, October 16, 2009.

Along with an afternoon of live presentations, free autographs, displays, door prizes, activities and a book sale hosted by Kidsbooks, there is a chance for local schools to win a free author or illustrator visit. Read the full contest details on the CWILL BC blog.

Date: Friday, October 16, 2009

Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Place: North Vancouver City Library
120 West 14th Street (map)

Admission is free

To date, the following authors and illustrators are scheduled to appear at Fall Book Harvest: Alison Acheson, Dan Bar-el, Fiona Bayrock, Silvana Bevilacqua, Della Burford, Norma Charles, Becky Citra, Rachelle Delaney, kc dyer, Linda Demeulemeester, Claire Eamer, Julie H. Ferguson, Lee Edward Födi, Nancy Hundal, Melanie Jackson, Rebecca Kool, Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Christina Leist, Marian MacDougall, Oliver Neubert, Cynthia Nugent, Sheri Radford, PJ Reece, Gillian Richardson, Margriet Ruurs, Kathie Shoemaker, David Smith, Michela Sorrentino, Crystal Stranaghan, Carol Watterson, Irene Watts, and Kari-Lynn Winters.

CWILL BC Fall Book Harvest 2009 poster

The direct link to the print-size colour letter-format poster is right here.

All the posters, in various formats (letter & tabloid) plus a choice of black & white or colour, can be found here and downloaded in a variety of sizes.

new book beginnings ~ db

| kirsti

Some of the spreads having been giving me particular difficulties. When layers of tracing paper fail me, I’ll scan the sketches and drop them into Photoshop so I can chop things up, move them around, drop in rough colour and draw loosely over the top of everything until I find a solution.

Picture 97

On another note – reindeer have the most fantastic antlers – they’re incredibly curvy, curly, asymmetrical and shoot off in unexpected directions. This was originally going to be a troika, but I’ve already got one horse on an early page and a reindeer drawn sleigh fit the calm mood better than a sleigh drawn by a trio of charging horses. Plus the reindeer antlers were way too cool to pass up and that decided it for me.

new book beginnings ~ db

| kirsti

These are tight roughs that have been scanned. Some adjustments were made in photoshop (elements moved around, sizes of things adjusted). The printouts form the base for the final, tight drawings.

By pasting them up on the wall I can get an idea of how the book will flow. The upper right image belongs at the end of the one below it, but my wall is too short.