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Like Scary Stories? Try This

Posted by Julie Lake | Jun 29, 2024 | Children's book publishers and publishing, Other media, True stories | 0 |

Exploring the Natural World, Part 2

Posted by Julie Lake | Jun 30, 2023 | Children's book fine art | 0 |

Exploring the Natural World, Part 1

Posted by Julie Lake | Jun 6, 2023 | Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration | 0 |

Picture Points of View

Posted by Julie Lake | May 3, 2023 | Art instruction, Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration, Drawing | 0 |

Depicting Women’s History

Posted by Julie Lake | Feb 27, 2023 | Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration, Children's book publishers and publishing | 0 |

Exploration Afoot

Posted by Julie Lake | Jun 16, 2022 | Children's book illustration | 0 |

Like Scary Stories? Try This

by Julie Lake | Jun 29, 2024 | Children's book publishers and publishing, Other media, True stories | 0 |

Photo by Huang Yingone on Unsplash I’m not going to bury the lead on this...

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Exploring the Natural World, Part 2

by Julie Lake | Jun 30, 2023 | Children's book fine art | 0 |

Another wonderful picture book celebrating the natural world and sciences, in words and narrative...

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Exploring the Natural World, Part 1

by Julie Lake | Jun 6, 2023 | Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration | 0 |

Picture books increasingly celebrate the natural sciences through stories (often biographies) and...

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Picture Points of View

by Julie Lake | May 3, 2023 | Art instruction, Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration, Drawing | 0 |

Without a point of view, perspective can’t mean too much for our pictures. Those lines of...

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Depicting Women’s History

by Julie Lake | Feb 27, 2023 | Children's book fine art, Children's book illustration, Children's book publishers and publishing | 0 |

With Women’s History Month around the corner, Julie and I share some great picture books...

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Exploration Afoot

by Julie Lake | Jun 16, 2022 | Children's book illustration | 0 |

Depicting Travel/Motion Art by Christian Robinson Wanderlust is surging these days. It’s summer,...

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Seriously Funny

by Julie Lake | May 22, 2022 | Children's book illustration, Children's book Illustrators, Pictures worth a thousand words | 0 |

Humor is sneaky. One moment you’re completely composed, thinking deep thoughts about all those...

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In the Wild Woods

by Julie Lake | Apr 16, 2022 | Art instruction, Children's book illustration | 0 |

Art by Maria Dek for A Walk in the Forest Woodland settings have fueled the imaginations of...

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Moving Moments

by Julie Lake | Mar 9, 2022 | Children's book illustration, Children's book Illustrators, Drawing and painting | 2 |

Illustration by Anna Dewdney Gesture is what we experience when we look at a picture – that dance...

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