{"id":2196,"date":"2011-09-01T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:39:06","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-lane-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Lane Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ll be writing about Brian Selznick’s<\/a><\/strong> much-anticipated September release, Wonderstruck<\/em>. The link will be here<\/a><\/strong>. {Edited to add on Friday: The link is here<\/a><\/strong>.}<\/em><\/p>\n

If you missed last week’s column<\/a><\/strong>, I weighed in on Lane Smith’s<\/a><\/strong> newest picture book release, Grandpa Green<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. I only might have said that this is only one of the most gorgeous and unforgettable picture books I’ve seen all year. Dare I mutter the “c” word? C-c-c-c-caldecott? Okay. There I said it. Definite contender, I would think. <\/p>\n

As always, I’m here this week to show some art from the book, and Lane also sent some dummy pages, as well as “some tests I did to achieve the best look for the book (mostly varying pen lines)” … Lane said he re-did the illustrations a few times until he “got the balance right.”<\/p>\n

I thank Lane for sharing, and you can click on each image to enlarge<\/strong><\/font> and see up close. (I may or may not be yelling that for emphasis, ’cause did I mention the illustrations are beautiful?) Well, a couple of images are not click-able, but knock yourself out and go absolutely crazy with unbridled clicking on the rest of ’em. <\/p>\n

Enjoy … <\/p>\n

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“…before computers or cell phones or television.”<\/em>
(final version of book’s opening spread)<\/center><\/p>\n


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Lane’s line tests<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Tests for floppy-straw-hat spread<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Dummy<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Final illustration<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Test for rooster spread<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Left and right side of dummy<\/em>
(Click each to see entire spread)<\/center><\/p>\n

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Final illustration<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Tests for tree spread<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Dummy<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Final illustration<\/em>
(If you don’t click to enlarge this beautiful spread,
my new Favorite Picture Book Spread from 2011, you will be missing out)<\/center><\/p>\n

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GRANDPA GREEN. Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Lane Smith. Published by Roaring Brook Press, New York. All images used with permission of Lane Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow morning over at Kirkus, I’ll be writing about Brian Selznick’s much-anticipated September release, Wonderstruck. The link will be here. {Edited to add on Friday: The link is here.} If you missed last week’s column, I weighed in on Lane Smith’s newest picture book release, Grandpa Green. I only might have said that this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}