{"id":4168,"date":"2016-10-06T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2019-09-04T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:40:02","slug":"the-art-of-michele-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4168","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Michele Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Painting for “Jacob’s Ladder”<\/em>
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\nLast week, I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> at Kirkus<\/em> with illustrator Michele Wood<\/a><\/strong> about her paintings for Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song<\/em> (Millbrook\/Lerner, September 2016), which includes text from Cynthia Grady<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Today, I’m following up with some paintings from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n


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Painting for “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”<\/em>
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Painting for “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”<\/em>
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Painting for “The Gospel Train”<\/em>
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LIKE A BIRD: THE ART OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE SONG. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Cynthia Grady. Illustrations \u00a9 2016 by Michele Wood. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Painting for “Jacob’s Ladder”(Click to enlarge and see text)   Last week, I chatted here at Kirkus with illustrator Michele Wood about her paintings for Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song (Millbrook\/Lerner, September 2016), which includes text from Cynthia Grady. Today, I’m following up with some paintings from the book. Enjoy.<\/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-4168","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\/4168","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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}