shadrieka I am honored to announce that Cleveland Public Library has selected BIRD to be on it’s 2008 Celebrate With Books list. from the web site: Celebrate With Books In 1906 the Cleveland Public Library published, for the first time, a list with suggestions for holiday book purchases for boys and girls. The list has evolved … Read more
This year I am participating in The Sketchbook Project 3 hosted by Art House. The theme is “Everyone we know”. Supplied sketchbooks are 3.5 x 5.5″ and is by far the smallest sketchbook size I’ve ever worked with. This afternoon I began my book during brunch. It was a welcome productive distraction to a job … Read more
From my urban family to yours, Happy Holidays!
Wow! It’s almost January. Time for new resolutions, new plans, and new dreams. This year has been absolutely fantastic! Since BIRD was published in October, I’ve visited schools, libraries and bookstores introducing my work and hopefully inspiring young people to follow their own creative dreams. Recently I conducted a children’s printmaking workshop at the Brooklyn … Read more
I’m heading to Atlanta in the morning! Look for posts from the book signing next.
On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with Zetta Elliott, author of the book Bird, about publishing picture books that tackle real-life issues like drug addiction, getting published in foreign markets and being daring as both book publishers and book buyers.
Zetta and I will be signing copies of BIRD in Atlanta on December 15th at Frederick Douglass High School. If you have unsigned copies already, please feel free to bring them! If you haven’t purchased a copy and would like to, we will have books available for sale.
This year I spent Thanksgiving with one of my best friends —FilmMaker, Nadirah Bell. It was my first time eating Tofurkey with miso…yum. I was also able to relax a bit and veg out on movies, tv, and books. I read BLACK GIRL IN PARIS by Shay Youngblood. went to see AUSTRALIA by Baz Luhrman … Read more
I have just returned from a five day exploration of the city of New Orleans. Though I wasn’t able to draw as much as I had hoped, I did get in a few solid hours of drawing. I used my fabulous Powershot for supplemental pics. Here are a few images. St. Charles Street trolley Cafe … Read more
A big thank you goes out to Andrea Ross and Mark Blevis for doing a wonderful review of BIRD on the Just One More Book podcast. See the full post here.