OBAMA'S INAUGURAL ILLUSTRATED!
Brenda Bowen and I through HarperCollins/The Bowen Press will be putting together a children's picture book based on the inaugural speech of our 44th president. The idea is to adapt the speech so that we can get second and third graders to better make sense about what the speech promised, and what it all means- we'll include a full transcript of the speech in the rear of the book along with a listing of moments in the first 100 days as well. The idea is to create something that looks beyond celebrating his biography and makes a lasting document of this remarkable time.The book is due on the shelves October 2009.
Publisher's Weekly just did a quick announcement of the project- VERY exciting stuff. Check it out:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6631511.html?nid=2788
posted by Greg Ruth at
6:17 AM
2 Comments:
Congrats, its a beautiful portrait of President Obama. How long did it take? And is that pencil?
Thanks- so nice of you to write in.
It's all in sumi ink with a brush. It took a matter of minutes, really. I had done a wider shot of Obama looking down with his arms folded- and while I thought I nailed the suit and arms, the face was terrible. So this was intended as a patch for the final image. But I did it quite a bit bigger, so the expression worked in large part because the size of the brush strokes were better proportioned to the image than in the initial effort.
As these things go, though I found I very much preferred this as a piece unto itself over the original intention... so here we are.
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