Outside In with Cindy Derby

Over at BookPage, I’ve a review of Deborah Underwood’s Outside In (Houghton Mifflin, April 2020), illustrated by Cindy Derby. It’s one of my 2020 favorites, and that review is here.
Here at 7-Imp today, Cindy shares some process images, as well as final illustrations. It’s a lot of glorious art, and I thank her for sharing.
Enjoy!




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There was nothing between us.”
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become warm bread / and berries.”
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in the warm weight of our cats / and the rough fur of our dogs.”
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including the inclusion of the text in the top right corner)

OUTSIDE IN. Text copyright © 2020 by Deborah Underwood. Illustrations © 2020 by Cindy Derby and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. All other images used by permission of Cindy Derby.
Cindy’s art is stunning. She once painted my dog and caught his entire “please, please, please, tell me how to get an A” personality in a few extraordinary strokes.