{"id":2602,"date":"2013-07-15T00:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T06:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2013-07-15T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:23:20","slug":"seven-questions-over-breakfast-withchris-sickels-aka-red-nose-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Seven Questions Over Breakfast with
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\nThis morning I’m going to have cyber-breakfast with artist Chris Sickels, who creates sculptural and 3D illustrations and who illustrates children’s books (amongst other creative projects) under the name Red Nose Studio<\/a><\/strong>. I wish it weren’t a fake breakfast, and that’s because his breakfast of choice is, he told me, “the chocolate zucchini bread that my lovely wife Jennifer and my daughter Ava make together. Pair that bread with a cup of French press coffee, and that is the bee\u2019s knees for me.”<\/em> If I ever actually meet him in person, I’m going to remind him of this moment and hit him up for the zucchini bread and French press coffee. Coffee-lovers don’t forget such things. <\/p>\n

Today’s post includes lots of Chris’s process images, a photographic sneak peek into how he created the art for his latest illustrated title, Jennifer LaRue Huget’s<\/a><\/strong> The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Running Away From Home<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (pictured left), which was released by Schwartz & Wade Books last month. You may remember his 2010 illustrated title, which I covered here<\/a><\/strong> at 7-Imp — Here Comes The Garbage Barge<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, written by Jonah Winter and also published by Schwartz & Wade. To see art from that book, you can visit that 2010 7-Imp post (or even this one<\/a><\/strong>), but with the exception of some portfolio pieces at the close of this interview, all the images here today are from The Beginner’s Guide<\/em>, a tale both funny and moving (the same illustration below that nearly brought Chris to tears, when making it, does the same for me when I see it) and which School Library Journal<\/em> calls “imaginative and subversive.” <\/p>\n

Let’s get right to it so that you can see how Chris creates his intricate worlds and also what’s next on his plate. I thank him for visiting 7-Imp today. <\/p>\n

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Jules<\/font><\/strong>: Are you an illustrator or author\/illustrator?<\/font><\/p>\n

Chris<\/font><\/strong>: Illustrator — with a little bit of author in there.<\/p>\n

Jules<\/font><\/strong>: Can you list your books-to-date?<\/font><\/p>\n


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Chris<\/font><\/strong>: <\/p>\n