{"id":3817,"date":"2015-08-13T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T14:42:53","slug":"in-the-canyon-with-ashley-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3817","title":{"rendered":"In the Canyon with Ashley Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nAuthor-illustrator Ashley Wolff<\/a><\/strong> is visiting today to share some sketches and art from Liz Garton Scanlon’s<\/a><\/strong> In the Canyon<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, published by Beach Lane this month. (Pictured above is an early sketch.) Liz and I talked about this book<\/a><\/strong>, as well as her new middle-grade novel, at Kirkus<\/em> last week. <\/p>\n

Ashley also shares here today some pictures of a hike she took. Here’s what she told me: <\/p>\n

[It’s a] real-life hike from rim to river to rim my sister and I took in April of 2014. It’s a really long haul, and both rangers and signs like [the one below] discourage anyone from trying to do it in one day, but we are two, stubborn Wolff women. We started down the South Kaibab Trail<\/a><\/strong> before 7 a.m. and returned to the rim after 8 p.m. — 16 miles round trip and a mile’s elevation gain and loss. We didn’t take enough water or food, so at the little store at Phantom Ranch we begged a $10 off the nice attendant, a guy named Bob. We bought all the salty snacks he had, and then he handed us a SASE. Naturally, we mailed him back a $20! <\/p>\n

The sketches [below] include a series from very roughest to finish, my main character before I found a model, and some sketches of the lovely Willa. She is also the niece of Daniel Handler<\/a><\/strong> and Lisa Brown<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thank Ashley for sharing art today. Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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Early sketches<\/em>
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The progression of a spread:
“Now here’s a tiny slice of shade, a yummy lunch, some lemonade,
and a lizard, still as sand, his head all speckled, body tan.”<\/em>
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“Here’s a little hidey-hole, home to sneaky squirrel or vole.”
Ashley: “[This is a scan] from before the final art revisions. This spread changed in one significant way: I removed the Gila Monster lurking in the upper left, as there was concern children might mistake that for a vole.
Other than that, it is much the same.”<\/em>
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Final art: “Here’s a footstep, dusty red,
another one, and more ahead …”<\/em>
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Final art: “Here’s the dark, and here’s the shine,
and here’s the moon—it’s like it’s mine!—
to tuck inside me, way down deep …”<\/em>
(Click to enlarge spread)<\/center>
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IN THE CANYON. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Liz Garton Scanlon. Illustrations \u00a9 2015 by Ashley Wolff. Images here used by permission of Ashley Wolff. Final spreads used by permission of the publisher, Beach Lane Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Author-illustrator Ashley Wolff is visiting today to share some sketches and art from Liz Garton Scanlon’s In the Canyon, published by Beach Lane this month. (Pictured above is an early sketch.) Liz and I talked about this book, as well as her new middle-grade novel, at Kirkus last week. Ashley also shares here today […]<\/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-3817","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\/3817","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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}