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December 24, 2012
Happy Winter!
Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!
Happy Holidays and a great start into the New Year to you all!
December 10, 2012
Praise for "The Broken Lands"
The Atlantic Wire has listed the cover of "The Broken Lands" among the 25 most wonderful YA/MG covers of 2012. I am very honored! Here is the link to the article.The Atlantic Wire hat eine Liste mit den 25 schönsten Jugendbuchcovern von 2012 veröffentlicht, unter ihnen das Cover von "The Broken Lands", Ich freue mich sehr! Hier ist der Artikel.
Update:
I just received the news from my editor Lynne Polvino that "The Broken Lands" was named one of the best teen books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews! I am speechless!
Gerade habe ich erfahren, dass "The Broken Lands" von Kirkus Reviews als eines der besten Jugend-Bücher 2012 gelistet wurde. Ich bin sprachlos!
Praise for the cover of "The Broken Lands"
The Atlantic Wire has listed the cover of "The Broken Lands" among the 25 most wonderful YA/MG covers of 2012. I am very honored! Here is the link to the article.The Atlantic Wire hat eine Liste mit den 25 schönsten Jugendbuchcovern von 2012 veröffentlicht, unter ihnen das Cover von "The Broken Lands", Ich freue mich sehr! Hier ist der Artikel.
November 21, 2012
"Eisweihnacht" ab November im Buchhandel
Dieses Jahr habe ich wieder für den Kinder-Verlag ein Weihnachtsbuch illustrieren dürfen. Geschrieben von Ruth Berger, spielt die historische Geschichte diesmal in Frankfurt, im "Eiswinter" 1844:
Der Waisenjunge Josua wird auf die Straße gesetzt. Halberfroren trifft er auf Elise Best, die allerdings eigene Sorgen hat: Ihr Vater hat soeben den Bankrott des Geschäftes verkündet. Elise soll sofort heiraten, um ihre Versorgung zu sichern. Dummerweise hat sie ein lahmes Bein, und der einzige sich anbietende Heiratskandidat ist ein alter Pfarrer. Ein Weihnachtswunder muss her, das sowohl ihr als auch dem kleinen Josua aus der Patsche hilft ... doch gibt es solche Wunder überhaupt?
Die historische Recherche für dieses Projekt war wieder sehr spannend, und hat mir ein ganz neues Bild von Frankfurt vermittelt. Knifflig wurde es diesmal überraschenderweise bei Detailfragen wie zum Beispiel der, wie wohl der Weihnachtsschmuck um 1844 aussah. Glaskugeln gab es nämlich zu der Zeit wohl noch nicht, dafür Nüsse, Zuckerstangen, bemalte Holzäpfel, Nussknacker und versilberte Zapfen. Eines der wenigen Bildbeispiele aus der Zeit ist eine Illustration für "König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold" von Heinrich Hoffmann:
Illustration für "König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold" von Heinrich Hoffmann, Quelle: Projekt GutenbergUnd hier ist der fertige Weihnachtsschmuck, wie er im Buch erscheint:
Das Buch ist ab dem 9.November erhältlich. Viel Spaß beim Lesen und eine schöne Advents-Weihnachtszeit!
This year I was again invited to illustrate a historical Christmas novel for Kindler. "Eisweihnacht", written bei Ruth Berger, is available in bookstores November.It was once again a great joy to research the past of a city, this time Frankfurt, and figure out all the historical details, like what the christmas decoration in 1844 might have looked like.
Enjoy and have a wonderful holiday season!
September 6, 2012
The Broken Lands, The Kairos Mechanism and a Book Launch Party
OK, I have lots to write, so I will try to put things in order:
1. The Prequel to The Boneshaker:
The prequel of The Boneshaker is finally hitting the shelves this week!
Here is a summary of the story, which takes place 30 years earlier than the Boneshaker, from Clarion Books:
A crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New York City. Few crossroads compare to the one being formed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River, and as the bridge’s construction progresses, forces of unimaginable evil seek to bend that power to their advantage. Only two orphans with unusual skills stand in their way. Can the teenagers Sam, a card sharp, and Jin, a fireworks expert, stop them before it’s too late? Here is a richly textured, slow-burning thriller about friendship, courage, and the age-old fight between good and evil.
This story grabbed me as much as the first book and held just tons of wonderful historical and magical detail for me to go crazy with! Here are a few of my illustrations for this book:
He pushed open the door to reveal a room full of glass
jars twinkling in the light of scores of lit candles
Then the devil paused, fished about in his
waistcoat pocket, and held out his hand.
The man who entered then was tall and thin and deadly-looking.
The trip downriver to Norton's Point
He and Walker sat cross-legged on the ground on opposite sides
of an empty crate with a deck of cards between them.
2. The Novella
For those of you who cannot wait to learn more about Natalie, the hero of The Boneshaker, there is good news too. To tide fans over, Kate Milford has written a novella, the first in the "Arcana" series that will accompany the full length novels:
"The Kairos Mechanism" continues the story of Natalie, gives clues as to what might happen next, and a bit of background history to some of the mysterious characters we already met in The Boneshaker. Kate funded the writing, illustrating and printing of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will be available exclusively through her website and on Espresso Book Machines throughout the US. Here's an excerpt from the summary from Goodreads:
September, 1913. The crossroads town of Arcane, Missouri, is a place where strange things happen, and lately those strange things have a habit of happening to thirteen year-old Natalie Minks. It's Natalie who first encounters the two boys who arrive in town seemingly out of nowhere, carrying a dead man between them. Odder still, a few of her older neighbors immediately recognize the dead man as a fellow citizen who's been missing for fifty years--and who doesn't appear to have aged in all that time. When another newcomer, a peddler called Trigemine, arrives in town, Natalie learns why the two boys and the peddler have really come to Arcane. And, of course, she realizes she has to stop them.
I was very excited when Kate Milford asked me if would create the cover image for the book. Since this book stands on its own yet is related to the full length novels I wanted to try something a bit different and decided to work with paper silhouette. Here are a few of the first paper cuts and sketches:
The finished cover looks like this:
Then wonderful author/designer/illustrator Lisa Amowitz took over and turned the image into the beautiful cover you already saw above:
Oh, and there's a back vignette too:
3. The Party
And now finally the information about the book launch party: Kate will be hosting a party today at McNally Jackson's Book Store in New York to celebrate the release of "The Broken Lands" and to present "The Kairos Mechanism". If you are in the area drop by and pick up your freshly printed copies of both books!
back cover vignette of "The Broken Lands"
1. The Prequel to The Boneshaker:
The prequel of The Boneshaker is finally hitting the shelves this week!
Here is a summary of the story, which takes place 30 years earlier than the Boneshaker, from Clarion Books:
A crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New York City. Few crossroads compare to the one being formed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River, and as the bridge’s construction progresses, forces of unimaginable evil seek to bend that power to their advantage. Only two orphans with unusual skills stand in their way. Can the teenagers Sam, a card sharp, and Jin, a fireworks expert, stop them before it’s too late? Here is a richly textured, slow-burning thriller about friendship, courage, and the age-old fight between good and evil.
This story grabbed me as much as the first book and held just tons of wonderful historical and magical detail for me to go crazy with! Here are a few of my illustrations for this book:
He pushed open the door to reveal a room full of glassjars twinkling in the light of scores of lit candles
Then the devil paused, fished about in hiswaistcoat pocket, and held out his hand.
The man who entered then was tall and thin and deadly-looking.
The trip downriver to Norton's Point
He and Walker sat cross-legged on the ground on opposite sidesof an empty crate with a deck of cards between them.
2. The Novella
For those of you who cannot wait to learn more about Natalie, the hero of The Boneshaker, there is good news too. To tide fans over, Kate Milford has written a novella, the first in the "Arcana" series that will accompany the full length novels:
"The Kairos Mechanism" continues the story of Natalie, gives clues as to what might happen next, and a bit of background history to some of the mysterious characters we already met in The Boneshaker. Kate funded the writing, illustrating and printing of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will be available exclusively through her website and on Espresso Book Machines throughout the US. Here's an excerpt from the summary from Goodreads:
September, 1913. The crossroads town of Arcane, Missouri, is a place where strange things happen, and lately those strange things have a habit of happening to thirteen year-old Natalie Minks. It's Natalie who first encounters the two boys who arrive in town seemingly out of nowhere, carrying a dead man between them. Odder still, a few of her older neighbors immediately recognize the dead man as a fellow citizen who's been missing for fifty years--and who doesn't appear to have aged in all that time. When another newcomer, a peddler called Trigemine, arrives in town, Natalie learns why the two boys and the peddler have really come to Arcane. And, of course, she realizes she has to stop them.
I was very excited when Kate Milford asked me if would create the cover image for the book. Since this book stands on its own yet is related to the full length novels I wanted to try something a bit different and decided to work with paper silhouette. Here are a few of the first paper cuts and sketches:
The finished cover looks like this:
Then wonderful author/designer/illustrator Lisa Amowitz took over and turned the image into the beautiful cover you already saw above:
Oh, and there's a back vignette too:
3. The Party
And now finally the information about the book launch party: Kate will be hosting a party today at McNally Jackson's Book Store in New York to celebrate the release of "The Broken Lands" and to present "The Kairos Mechanism". If you are in the area drop by and pick up your freshly printed copies of both books!
back cover vignette of "The Broken Lands"
September 5, 2012
Peter Pan zum Vorlesen...
...wunderbar nacherzählt von Sabine Rahn und mit vielen großen und kleinen Illustrationen von mir, ist im August im Ellermann Verlag erschienen. Viel Spaß beim Vorlesen!
Here are a few of the many big and small illustrations I painted for the wonderful story of Peter Pan, adapted as read aloud book by Sabine Rahn, published by Ellermann Verlag this August.
June 1, 2012
"Ghost Knight" by Cornelia Funke
Last year I had the great honor to illustrate Cornelia Funke's fantastic new middle grade book "Ghost Knight", which is now in stores.
The story is full of intriguing details of medieval history and century-old legends pulled into the present by a fantastic and thrilling ghost story surrounding the main character Jon and his friend Ella. This mix of real locations and historic persona combined with fantasy made it a really interesting project to work on.
Since the story is set in real locations in and around Salisbury, England, I had the opportunity to visit and research the places where the story unfolds. This was a real treat, Salisbury is a beautiful city, it was so much fun to see Stonehenge, Lacock and the Salisbury cathedral and imagine Jon and Ella there!
For more information about the book, go here, and to see some of the locations, go here.
May 22, 2012
Wild at Heart - opening May 26
Here is the painting I did for the Wild at Heart Show at Thinkspace gallery coming up this Saturday:
Please come and support Born Free USA and co-curators Amanda Erlandson and Andrew Hosner and 120 artists in their efforts to protect endangered species.
Please come and support Born Free USA and co-curators Amanda Erlandson and Andrew Hosner and 120 artists in their efforts to protect endangered species.
April 24, 2012
Hamburg illustriert - und feiert 10 Jahre IO
Die Illustratoren Organisation feiert 2012 ihr 10-jähriges Jubiläum, und in ganz Deutschland feiern Illustratoren mit Ausstellungen und Events.
In Hamburg präsentieren 11 Illustratoren ihre Arbeiten in einer 4-wöchigen Gruppenausstellung, um mit einem Einblick in ihre verschiedenen Stile das 10-jährige Jubiläum der Illustratoren Organisation zu feiern.
Am 1.5. gehts los, wir freuen uns auf Euch!
Hamburg illustriert
Kulturreich
Wexstr. 28
20355 Hamburg
Vernissage: 1.5.2012, 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 2.5. – 29.5.2012
Mo – So: 12-18 Uhr (sofern nicht anders ausgezeichnet)
Die ausstellenden Künstler sind:
Corinna Chaumeny, Amrei Fiedler, Niels Fliegner, Cornelia Haase, Till Laßmann, Andrea Offermann, Sarah Palisi, Nele Palmtag, Felix Scheinberger, Meike Teichmann, Daniel Wallner
Über die 4 Wochen wird es ein spannendes Rahmenprogramm geben:
05.05. Merkwürdige Texte, die nicht nur sinnlos sind
15:00 Corinna Chaumeny liest verschiedene skurrile Texte
06.05. Mut zum Skizzenbuch – Mut zum Zeichnen
14:00 Felix Scheinberger, Illustrator und Autor von “Mut zum Skizzenbuch” und “Wasserfarbe für Gestalter” teilt seine Gedanken und Tipps für das mobile und mutige Skizzieren mit uns.
18.05. Die Zaubermühle + Bastelrunde für Kinder (6-12 Jahre)
15:00 Illustratorin Meike Teichmann liest auf Hochdeutsch und Plattdeutsch aus ihrem Kinderbuch “Die Zaubermühle”. Anschliessend darf gebastelt werden. Bitte Stifte, Kleber und Schere mitbringen. ca 90 Min
19.05. Eventzeichnerei, was ist das und wie geht das?
15:00 Illustrator Till Lassmann arbeitet als Eventzeichner und erzählt uns davon in diesem Vortrag.
20.05. Bilderbuchkino + Kanons Raten
16:00 Bilderbuchkino für Leute ab 5 Jahren, Nele Palmtag stellt ihr Kinderbuch “Tauschtag” vor. 17:00 Kanons raten und singen, mit Gewinnspiel und Livemusik.
21.05. Mappenberatung + Illustratoren Einmaleins
14:00 Mappenberatung mit Illustratorin Amrei Fiedler. Das Angebot richtet sich an Bewerber für ein Studium im Fach Illustration. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig, bringt aber unbedingt Arbeiten mit. 2h
17:00 Illustrator Nils Fliegner erzählt vom Berufsstart als Illustrator: Wo fange ich an, wer sind meine Kunden, wie verdiene ich Geld?
Die Ausstellung wird organisiert von:
Sarah Palisi
0176/22225878
mail@sarapalisi.de
www.sarahpalisi.de
Meike Teichmann
0173/8931074
illustration@meike-teichmann.de
www.meike-teichmann.de
Weitere Infos unter: www.facebook.com/Hamburgfeiert10JahreIO
February 13, 2012
The story continues…
Yes! Those of you who have read The Boneshaker might have anticipated it (and I was crossing my fingers for it): there is more. I am honored to be working on the prequel to The Boneshaker, entitled The Broken Lands, due out in September!
Yes, you read right, it's a PREquel! The author takes us back a further 30 years and to New York, just around the time when the Brooklyn Bridge was built. You will meet some already well-known characters, several intriguing new ones, and mysteries that lingered with you after reading the first book will be… solved? deepened? added to new ones? If you can't wait until September to find out, go to Kate Milford's Website, she has posted some first peaks…
Here is a first look at the cover:
Yes, you read right, it's a PREquel! The author takes us back a further 30 years and to New York, just around the time when the Brooklyn Bridge was built. You will meet some already well-known characters, several intriguing new ones, and mysteries that lingered with you after reading the first book will be… solved? deepened? added to new ones? If you can't wait until September to find out, go to Kate Milford's Website, she has posted some first peaks…
Here is a first look at the cover:
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