{"id":4514,"date":"2017-12-14T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:09:57","slug":"the-evolution-of-red-lulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Red & Lulu<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early sketch and final art<\/em>
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\nI’m following up last week’s Kirkus<\/em> Q&A<\/a><\/strong> with Matt Tavares<\/a><\/strong> with some preliminary images, as well as a bit of final art, from Red & Lulu<\/em> (Candlewick, December 2017). <\/p>\n

I thank Matt for sharing. <\/p>\n


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Matt: “32-page storyboard from 2012, when it was just about the tree.”<\/em>
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Matt: “40-page storyboard from early 2016, with some finished sketches in place,
some doodle sketches, and some spreads with just a
two- or three-word description of what happens.”<\/em>
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Matt: “I put this dummy together of the wordless version and
shared with friends and family.”<\/em>
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Matt: “Another spread from the wordless dummy.”<\/em>
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Matt: “A discarded wordless spread.”<\/em>
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Matt: “Another wordless spread. We kept this image but
made it fill 3\/4 of the page, instead of the whole thing. “<\/em>
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Matt: “Two of many discarded cover sketches.”<\/em>
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Early sketch and final art:
“But their favorite time of year, by far, was winter. …”<\/em>
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RED AND LULU. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Matt Tavares. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. Preliminary images reproduced by permission of Matt Tavares.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early sketch and final art(Click each to enlarge)   I’m following up last week’s Kirkus Q&A with Matt Tavares with some preliminary images, as well as a bit of final art, from Red & Lulu (Candlewick, December 2017). I thank Matt for sharing.<\/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-4514","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\/4514","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=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}