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I was so happy to see this Gift Wrap Company bag that I illustrated, at Barnes and Noble recently. Perfect for Spring!!!</div>
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I was so happy to see the fox card I illustrated for Peaceable Kingdom, at a local toy store! </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I decided to take one hour tonight to paint my succulent plant (although I changed up the pot for something more colorful). Was so fun and relaxing! I would love to try to paint or draw or create art every day and post it onto my blog and my facebook and instagram pages. Even if I can't make it happen everyday, I am going to try. So, what better day to start than today!</span></div>
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Lots of character sketches. So much fun!</div>
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I had so much fun creating another postcard for my agent to mail out to children's book publishers. The theme this time was 'nautical'...which I LOVE! Growing-up by the ocean, I had so many ideas. I finally decided to have my little critters in a boat on one side of the postcard, and on the other side they are deep sea diving with a friendly whale and fish. And I love that I was able to incorporate some of my daughters painting and crayon textures into my art...makes it all the more meaningful!</div>
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Here's a link to a wonderful and informative interview with Joy Peskin, Editorial Director at Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">And if you scroll down to the question <b>'Describe the book making process at FSG using a recent example'</b> she talks about <b>'Bunny Bus' </b>- the book we are working on together! How exciting!</span></div>
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My favorite types of books to make are the ones that only we can publish, meaning they start with a home-grown inspiration or idea. For example, I received a postcard from the agent Chris Tugeau featuring an adorable illustration of a bunny bus by Lesley Breen Withrow. I thought, I’d love a book about this character! So I reached out to an agent I know who has a great stable of picture book authors, Erin Murphy from EMLA, and shared the artwork with her. One of her colleagues, Ammi-Joan Paquette, who is both an agent and an author, took the idea and ran with it. She presented a wonderful manuscript that my colleagues and I all thought was fantastic when we discussed it at our edit meeting. Then my publisher signed off, and I presented the project at our acquisitions meeting. It was approved, and I made offers to the author and artist this week. The next step will be for me to make any minor edits to the text, and then when it’s final and copyedited, the designer can break it down page by page for the artist. She’ll submit sketches, the designer and I will review them and make comments, and I’ll share the sketches with the author. If revised sketches are needed, we will request those, and then the author will create final art. The sales and marketing folks have a say when it comes to the cover, and I truly value their opinion as I want us to go out with books that are most appealing in the marketplace. <span style="font-size: 14px;">-</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Joy Peskin</span></div>
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Having fun sketching lots of cute critters lately!</div>
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I've been doing lots of sketches and character studies lately. Here's one a kitty tangled-up in a ribbon. It's mostly inspired by my silly cat, Desi, whose had lots of fun playing with our Christmas ribbons these past few weeks!</div>
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Well, 2013 has been an incredible year for me. In February I started working at The Gift Wrap Company, designing amazing patterns and products like: wrapping paper, gift bags, journals, stickers, kids activities books and more. A real dream job. In 2013 I also became a part of Chris Tugeau's wonderful children's book art agency. This fall I was thrilled to get such a wonderful response to my postcard mailing to publishers and I am happy to announce that I am working on my first trade children's book! (more about it in the future). So many of my dreams have become a reality this year. I'm looking forward to what's next. Happy 2014 everyone!!!</div>
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! We got our first big(ish) snow here last night. My daughter was so excited watching the big flakes come down. Really puts you in the holiday mood. I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season.Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-23066021091846442162013-11-19T23:39:00.000-05:002013-12-31T15:26:31.979-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since I started working at The Gift Wrap Company earlier this year, I've gotten the opportunity to work on so many amazing projects. I am happy to see one of my first bag designs is now available at Cost Plus World Market. Looking forward to seeing more of my art and designs hit the shelves in 2014!<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">I'm so happy to see that the baby board book set I illustrated for Innovative Kids last year is now available! <a href="http://www.innovativekids.com/buy/3112/little-ocean-books" target="_blank">'Little Ocean Books'</a> consists of 10 chunky books inside a tower case. Each book is a short story about a different ocean creature.</span></div>
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It's that time of year again...back to school! My daughter just started second grade so we are getting used to the new routines, new teacher and new classmates. She's loving it so far, which makes me so happy. I always remember the lunch table as being so much fun when I was a kid. Maybe it was because I got to see some of my friends who weren't in my class but I figure it was most likely because I new that recess was coming up soon. Gotta love recess! Here's to another great school year!Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-14420450845499908702013-08-12T00:31:00.001-04:002013-12-31T15:28:22.111-05:00I have a children's book agent!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">I now an represented by the wonderful children's book agent, </span><a href="http://www.catugeau.com/#loaded_art" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Christina A. Tugeau</a><span style="text-align: start;">. Here's a snippit of art from my most recent mailer that she will be sending out soon. Looking forward to working more with her!</span></div>
Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-734329515772545702013-06-17T00:07:00.002-04:002013-12-31T15:32:33.433-05:00The Gift Wrap Company & The Stationary Show <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have had a wonderfully eventful past few months. I am now a senior designer for The Gift Wrap </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Company, designing gift wrap, gift </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bags as well as other wonderful gifting items. They are a fabulous company and the product is simply stunning. I feel so lucky to be apart of their design team! I got to go the NYC Stationary Show with the group in May and help </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">set-up our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">booth. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have been to the Stationary and Surtex shows before, but I have never helped with set-up...it was such a great experience and I loved seeing the 'behind the scenes' of the show. I was so impressed with our booth too. We had six themed windows to decorate with our product as well the interior of the booth. Here I am in front of one of the windows I helped to decorate.</span><br />
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<br />Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-47068749080339276992013-02-28T23:55:00.000-05:002013-12-31T15:32:45.479-05:00Singing Kids Children's Illustration<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I had a great time last Spring watching my kindergartener performing a song with her class for her schools annual talent show. So, after watching this fun and funny event, I decided to make an illustration of kids singing. I found it so much fun to think about the different personalities that are in a class and how they might act when they are singing infront of an audience. My very outgoing girl was surprising shy when she had to perform. So, in my art, I have the shy girl, the annoyed boy, the quirky girl, the loud boy, the nervous girl, that ADHD boy... you name it. Here's a snippit of my illustration showing a few of the kids. I'm coloring the final art right now and will post it up here when it's completed. So, come back soon to see it!Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-52236229918790823822013-01-16T11:28:00.001-05:002013-01-16T17:47:03.183-05:00It's time for mittens!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were surprised to wake-up to snow this morning! My daughter had a hard time getting ready for school since she would have much rather been getting ready to go sledding instead. Maybe after school we can have some winter-time fun!Lesley Breen Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345656314502661905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768037208668154238.post-39541643914778185092013-01-08T15:32:00.002-05:002013-01-08T15:40:22.683-05:00Baby Greeting Card Collection Here's a few card samples I received from Gartner Greetings for the baby card collection I illustrated for them, called 'Smitten'. It's always fun to see your art printed!<br />
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Here's a holiday greeting card that I illustrated for Gartner Greetings last year. It's a part of a four card box set. Happy holidays!</div>
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Here’s a repeat pattern of birds that I've recently created. I have always been a sketcher and doodler and so it was especially fun to bring my sketchy pencil look into this art.<br />
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