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Seeing Carin Berger’s
Box of Art Supplies Makes Me Happy

h1 January 29th, 2015 by jules



In-progress image and final spread: “‘I wish it was spring right now,’
Maurice told Mama. ‘Waiting is hard,’ she said. ‘Right now it is time to sleep.'”
(Click each to enlarge)

Last week, I chatted over at Kirkus (here) with author-illustrator Carin Berger about her new picture book, Finding Spring (Greenwillow, January 2015). Today, as always, I’m following up with some in-progress images from Carin, as well as a few spreads from the book. Those are below.

BUT she also visited 7-Imp over a year ago, while working on this book, to talk about it in detail waaaay before its publication. If you like Finding Spring and like Carin’s art and her books, I highly encourage you to check it out, if you haven’t seen it already. Lucky for us all, it is an art-filled post. It is here.

And I thank Carin for sending the additional images below. Enjoy.



Two more in-progress images
(Click each to enlarge)


“Back in the den, Maurice snuggled happily against Mama.
He slept and slept and slept.”
(Click to enlarge)


“And at last, there it was. Maurice had finally found S P R I N G!”
(Click to enlarge)



 

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FINDING SPRING. Copyright © 2015 by Carin Berger. Published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, New York. All images here are reproduced by permission of Carin Berger.





6 comments to “Seeing Carin Berger’s
Box of Art Supplies Makes Me Happy”

  1. So gorgeous and so much fun.

         by Lynne January 29th, 2015 at 10:35 am

  2. Enchanting!

         by abigail January 29th, 2015 at 10:53 am

  3. OH. WOW. I’m torn. Do I want to collect boxes of stuff to make my own box of art supplies, or do I just want to take a class and learn how to do this? Or just watch Carin Berger?

    I just need that page full of Spring…

         by tanita January 29th, 2015 at 11:04 am

  4. SWOOON! just gorgeous

         by stacey dressen mcqueen January 29th, 2015 at 1:16 pm

  5. This is really a lovely post! So inspiring!

         by Jessica Boehman January 29th, 2015 at 8:57 pm

  6. looks beautiful! I will be sure to pick it up

         by Nate Williams February 12th, 2015 at 5:52 am

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