This mornings musings

I loved that light filtering through the trees this morning and I couldn’t resist taking a short video. I was listening to Harold Budd & Brian Eno’s “A Stream with Bright Fish” and reading over some notes from talks about writing when I heard my friend Sarah Aronson (writer, teacher, coach) asking me the question. Check out her page, workshops, and free newsletter. 
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Characters

Details from Sleepytime Me written by Edith Fine, published by Random House.

Detail from Sleepytime Me illustrated by Christopher Denise

Detail from Sleepytime Me illustrated by Christopher Denise

Friends

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From Firefly Hollow by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Christopher Denise

Green

From Firefly Hollow written by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Christopher Denise

With the book wrapping up I’ve really enjoyed spending a bit more time outside and taking in all the green and the light. 

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Sketchbook

©2018 Christopher Denise

Don’t forget to give yourself a few minutes to just draw today!

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Detail part 2

Following up on yesterdays post regarding digital vs. traditional work and texture.

This image is a detail from my most recently published picture book Groundhug Day written by Anne Marie Pace.

With Groundhug Day I was going for a slightly more washy layered look so it will look a bit different than the pastel detail from The Great Redwall Feast that I posted yesterday. Nevertheless, I see the two sets of work as similar. It can be a bit tricky to compare the two works so directly as The Great Redwall Feast was published in 1996 and Groundhug Day was published twenty-one years later in 2017. As you would imagine some of my technique, regardless of medium, has changed.

from Groundhug Day written by Anne Marie Pace, illustrated by Christopher Denise

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Detail

The Great Redwall Feast by Brian Jacques, illustrated by Christopher Denise

Detail from interior art included in The Great Redwall Feast written by Brian Jacques.

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Staring to feel like summer. Hope you are having a great weekend!

From The Redwall Cookbook, written by Brian Jacques illustrated by Christopher Denise

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Older work/newer work

• Funny to look back on this work from over twenty years ago and realize that I am working towards the same look on my current project!

my illustration from Little Raccoon Catches A Cold written by Susan Canizares

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