tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199082102024-03-07T02:16:22.695-05:00Yvette Piette"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
- Lloyd AlexanderYvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-48907415698035325462014-06-12T21:16:00.002-04:002014-06-12T21:16:52.295-04:00Goat cheese!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-45803059125377985222014-06-11T22:14:00.004-04:002014-06-11T22:14:43.990-04:00The ironing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-48634702581575424152014-06-05T20:40:00.001-04:002014-06-05T20:43:07.501-04:00Beer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-91162056804554269722014-05-10T21:01:00.002-04:002014-05-10T21:02:02.582-04:00Boy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-43648953835554630932014-05-10T20:59:00.000-04:002014-05-10T21:01:07.877-04:00Cat Portraits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-15897687416499272492014-01-28T22:14:00.000-05:002014-01-28T22:14:07.879-05:00Caldecott<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-45336474470643546282014-01-28T16:27:00.001-05:002014-01-28T16:27:39.732-05:00RIP, Pete SeegerMy version of Froggy Went a Courtin'. To Pete!<br />
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-30887010595368781442013-12-03T21:41:00.001-05:002013-12-03T21:41:26.195-05:00Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-68115969593816524352013-11-26T21:34:00.001-05:002013-11-26T21:34:06.149-05:00Beard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-69170975347907501522013-11-24T22:23:00.000-05:002013-11-24T22:23:18.218-05:00Bear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-47589817267875262522013-11-23T14:35:00.002-05:002013-11-23T14:35:57.345-05:00How To Learn Gesture DrawingDraw babies and small children!<br />
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-79144309927712679442013-10-07T21:22:00.003-04:002013-10-07T21:22:25.927-04:00Children's book illustrations depict a glorious, dangerous world<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">
"... there are dangers aplenty in Narnia, in Middle Earth, in Neverland, in the Chocolate Factory. And yet every child (and every invalid, and every captive) would still go, would vanish into that book, in a heartbeat, in a second."</blockquote>
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Read the whole thing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/childrens-book-illustrations-dangerous-world" target="_blank">here</a>. That is an exhibition that I would love to see.</div>
Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-12429696581886391282013-10-03T20:54:00.001-04:002013-10-03T20:54:22.002-04:00100 Great Children's BooksAn excellent list from the New York Public Library! <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nypl.org/childrens100?hspace=228116">http://www.nypl.org/childrens100?hspace=228116</a></div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-79054462585949806352012-09-15T12:44:00.003-04:002012-09-15T12:44:40.743-04:00BirthdayHappy Birthday, <a href="http://www.tomie.com/about_tomie/bio.html" target="_blank">Tomie</a>!Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-18407461818393487162012-09-15T11:43:00.001-04:002012-09-15T11:43:20.677-04:00How Art Activates the Brain<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-art-activates-brain.html" target="_blank">Here</a> is a nice post by James Gurney on neurophysiologist Semir Zeki's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198505191/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0198505191&linkCode=as2&tag=gurnjour-20" target="_blank">Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain</a>.</div>
Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-66885373142738885792012-09-15T11:42:00.001-04:002012-09-15T12:34:58.827-04:00Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-71943502324351129802012-07-26T16:16:00.002-04:002012-07-26T16:16:22.152-04:00Olympic Art Competitions<div style="text-align: justify;">
Interesting! From Mental Floss, <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/135272" target="_blank">Olympic Art Competitions from 1928-1932</a>.</div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-89065334634906759402012-07-12T19:55:00.001-04:002012-07-12T19:55:13.790-04:00Gaiman Signs Multi-Book Deal with HarperCollins<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Publishers Weekly, <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/52943-gaiman-signs-multi-book-deal-with-harpercollins-.html" target="_blank">Neil Gaiman has signed a multi-book deal with HarperCollins</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Excellent!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will have more good books to add to Joseph's wish list.</span></div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-75054118911571210772012-07-03T10:20:00.000-04:002012-07-03T10:20:50.676-04:00Pen & Palette Interview<div style="text-align: justify;">
Megan Shepherd was very kind to interview me for the <a href="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/bc6fd6e58198abdddc7cc848c/files/P_P_Summer_2012_final.pdf" target="_blank">summer edition of Pen & Palette</a>! </div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-27292769592166126472012-06-24T12:22:00.001-04:002012-06-24T12:22:30.549-04:00James Gurney's Survival Guide for Art Students<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/06/survival-guide-for-art-students.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FNVaYV+%28Gurney+Journey%29" target="_blank">Here</a> is a good list of old art instruction books recommended by James Gurney. </div>
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Another old book I like that isn't on this list is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Natural-Way-Draw-Working/dp/0395530075" target="_blank">The Natural Way to Draw</a> by Kimon Nicolaides. </div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-68920249285893507822012-06-24T12:11:00.003-04:002012-06-24T12:11:58.722-04:00Face Book<div style="text-align: justify;">
This looks great - <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/one-face-book/" target="_blank">a Chuck Close book for kids</a>! </div>
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From the Chicago Tribune, <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-201206081516reedbusivarietynvr1118055244-20120608,0,3973001.story" target="_blank">the Jim Henson Company is developing an animated film based on Frog and Toad</a>. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"'Frog and Toad' has tremendous value with parents who read these charming stories when they were children and are now sharing them with their own kids," said Lisa Henson, CEO. "With such high caliber talent on board, the delightful and funny adventures of these two great friends--with a nod to the classic 'buddy movie'--will bring a whole new audience to their big screen debut."</span></span></blockquote>
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I'm looking forward to it! </div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-10953787609196154102012-06-18T16:31:00.002-04:002012-06-18T16:31:23.805-04:00Comics & Children's Books Now on Kindle's iPad App<div class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Because Amazon doesn't comply with Apple's rules for in-app purchases, in which Apple receives a 30 percent cut of all content sold through iOS applications, the new content cannot be purchased directly through the Kindle application. Users must instead visit the Amazon website to buy the content, and can then download it through their account in the Kindle for iOS app.</span></span></blockquote>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19908210.post-10386014789660080832012-06-18T16:12:00.002-04:002012-06-18T16:12:22.055-04:00Art for Babies<div style="text-align: justify;">
I hope all the fathers out there had a great Father's Day yesterday! </div>
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I love this. Via Drawn, Puno's <a href="http://blog.drawn.ca/post/24518541603/punos-art-for-babies-everyones-all-cray-cray" target="_blank">Art for Babies</a>! </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From The Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/07/enhanced-ebooks-bad-for-children?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">Enhanced ebooks are bad for children finds American study</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Researchers at the </span><a href="http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Joan Ganz Cooney Center</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> in New York worked with 32 pairs of parents and their three to six-year-old children for the small study, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/07/PDF%20http://joanganzcooneycenter.org/upload_kits/jgcc_ebooks_quickreport.pdf" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Print Books vs Ebooks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">, which gave each family a print book and either a basic ebook or an enhanced ebook version of the same title. Enhanced </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/ebooks" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Ebooks">ebooks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> were found to distract children from the story, and their bells and whistles prevented children from remembering as many narrative details.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This does fit with other analyses I have read about ebooks, that they will complement, not replace, traditional print. </span></div>Yvette Piettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08091029561118056667noreply@blogger.com0