{"id":3640,"date":"2015-01-20T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:14:43","slug":"a-peek-at-nicole-tadgells-drawing-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"A Peek at Nicole Tadgell’s Drawing Table"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“As the tea cooled down, their conversation heated up. … [T]hey weren’t afraid to
stand up for their beliefs. In fact, they loved a good fight!”
— Rough sketch, final sketch, and final art (without text)<\/em>
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Illustrator Nicole Tadgell<\/a><\/strong> (pictured left) is visiting 7-Imp (for a third time — you can check the archives for her previous visits) to share artwork and early sketches from Suzanne Slade’s<\/a><\/strong> Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. This book was released back in September (Charlesbridge), but better late than never. <\/p>\n

Slade’s story, rife with source notes and an impressive Selected Bibliography at the book’s close, describes the friendship between the two legends. Everything about this was scandalous for the times: “It wasn’t proper for women to be friends with men,” Slade writes. “You weren’t supposed to be friends with someone whose skin was a different color than yours.” But their friendship endured for over 45 years. She even highlights their 1869 public argument when the Fifteenth Amendment gave black men, but not women, the right to vote. While Slade emphasizes their passion for civil rights and social justice, the heart of the book is their friendship, during both good and bad times. <\/p>\n

Nicole’s delicate watercolors, as the Booklist<\/em> review notes, bring readers a good deal of historical context for Slade’s words. Today, Nicole shares some preliminary images and a bit of final art from the book. “It is interesting to look at the journey from rough pencils to finished art,” she tells me. “Often things change dramatically, but the spirit of the scene stays the same. I really love how this book turned out! I feel that I’ve helped bring two historical figures to life for kids to learn and hopefully inspire them to read further about how both Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony helped change America \u2013- in part, by simply being friends.”<\/p>\n

I thank her for sharing. … <\/p>\n

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“… Susan and Frederick didn’t care what others said ….
They were friends, no matter what.”
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“In 1861 Susan and Frederick headed to New York’s capital, Albany, to speak out against slavery. More than one hundred people signed a petition to keep them out of the city. ‘Those radicals will cause riots!’ they cried. …”
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“Their friendship lasted when tempers flared.”
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“No one thought Susan and Frederick would become friends.
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Cover as a work-in-progress<\/em>
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FRIENDS FOR FREEDOM: THE STORY OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY & FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Suzanne Slade. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Nicole Tadgell. Published by Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA. All images here are reproduced by permission of Nicole Tadgell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“As the tea cooled down, their conversation heated up. … [T]hey weren’t afraid tostand up for their beliefs. In fact, they loved a good fight!”— Rough sketch, final sketch, and final art (without text)(Click second image to enlarge) Illustrator Nicole Tadgell (pictured left) is visiting 7-Imp (for a third time — you can check the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","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=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}