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2013 Sketchbook Project – Frogology

| Doreen E. Lepore

My 2013 Sketchbook Project is called Frogology because it’s about Frogs. Most of the frogs in the book are extinct and on the back cover there is a list of frogs that are missing. I wasn’t able to scan the whole list but the website is written there where you can read the list for yourselves.

Again, I used mostly watercolor crayons and ink. Some drawings are in colored pencil and the last is graphite. It was a fun sketchbook to do because the frogs are colorful and fun to draw. It also felt good to give the frog issue attention. The cover is brightly printed fabric.

 

Nanowrimo and PiBoIdMo

| Doreen E. Lepore

The month of November is always hectic and to add to the usual hecticness is Nanowrimo [National Novel Writing Month]and now PiBoIdMo [Picture Book Idea Month], both of which I wanted to participate in.  This year was more difficult because I had to take precious time out because of a hand injury, which is healing now, thank goodness.

As usual, I didn’t finish Nanowrimo but am okay with that because I did finish PiBoIdMo.

Picture Book Idea Month
Picture Book Idea Month

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It’s been difficult to get the badge inserted somewhere so I’m posting it here now.

The creator of PiBoIdMo is Tara Lazar and she hosted daily guest posts on her blog which were very insightful and inspiring:  http://taralazar.com/

The idea is to come up with an idea a day for the month of November.  Since it wasn’t necessary to actually write the whole book every day, it was do-able and I exceeded the goal.  Some of the ideas might actually pan out.  I sure hope so.  In the mean time I’m still working on a tree frog book, now with several more ideas to follow.

Thanks to Tara and all her guest authors and illustrators.

Caruso
Caruso

P.S.  Last night’s fortune cookie:  “Right now there’s an energy pushing you in a new direction.”