Wayne Boardman sent over the link for the online version of the USA Today story. Check it out!! Thanks, Wayne!
Posts Tagged ‘the twelve days of springtime’
USA Today link
Monday, May 18th, 2009USA Today!
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Whoa, whoa, whoa! In USA Today today, The 12 Days of Springtime was featured as one of four great books for spring! Look for it in the May 14th issue on page D3. They didn’t use a photo of my ugly mug, but the book is there, so hey hey!
I haven’t posted in a while, sorry. The other news is that I was inducted into the East Muskingum School District Alumni Hall of Fame, woot! Haha, I went out to Ohio for the ceremony and it was a night to remember – the chicken was dry, the green beans were overcooked, and the mashed potatoes were from a box (although the gravy was quite good!), but the evening went well, and people seemed to like what I had to say – namely that it is ok if you don’t know what you are going to do with your life and it is ok if you change your mind anyway, and that high school sucks but things will get better. And as I was leaving the podium, one girl told me that she really liked my outfit, so I would say that was a success! I’ll post pictures when/if I get any!
Another write-up
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The nice folks at the University of Delaware Education Resource Center featured Springtime as a book of the week, with a great review – check it out here. It even obliquely compares my pictures to Steven Kellogg’s, woot woot! Well, kind of… But whatever!
Blog reviews
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Now available!
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009The Twelve Days of Springtime, written by Deborah Lee Rose, and illustrated by yours truly, is now available for purchase! You can buy it here or here. Or better yet, request one at your local independent bookseller!
Kirkus Reviews says,
The humor’s all in Armstrong-Ellis’s illustrations, which depict a rambunctious, multi-ethnic classroom full of kids and their valiant teacher… Each page turn shows her eyes getting wider and wider behind their horn-rims as her kids take every activity… and turn it into happy chaos. Readers will get an enormous kick out of seeing what they do in each busy spread…
Check it out as you wait for springtime to arrive!
The Twelve Days of Springtime
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Just thought I’d let you all know that The Twelve Days of Springtime is available for pre-order on Amazon now! You can check it out here.
Also – this is very exciting! – available for pre-order, a fantastic Fairy Tale Sticker Book by the fantastic Erin Ellis! No picture up yet, but still! Check it out here.
Let me try this again…
Thursday, September 11th, 2008I have to say I have great admiration for people who actually update their blogs on a regular basis… Man. OK, it’s been about six months since my last entry, hahaha, so let me try to catch up on things artsy and stitchy and booky. First the book department:
I finished the art for The Twelve Days of Springtime, and then I finished the corrections (oops! some spelling errors on my part 
, and some last minute changes on the publisher’s part. Lots of discussion on national flags, rainbow flags, earth day, etc. etc…) so that project is done. Yaaay!! (picture Kermit the Frog waving arms about) My current project is illustrating a story about a little girl taking ballet lessons, called Miss Tutu’s Star. I have finished the preliminary sketches and am waiting to hear whether I am even on the right track, or whether I have to start all over again, ugh! We shall see. Soon, hopefully. Here are a couple of the sketches:
Ok, now for the artsy stuff. I was contacted by a woman from Eugene, OR who was running for Slug Queen, hahaha! Seems they have this big competition every year for the honor of Slimy Queendom, those crazy Eugeners, and she was wondering if I might donate some of my sluggy wares so that she could bribe the former queens, and so better her chances of winning. So I sent out some stuff, and then she mentioned a Slug Queen exhibit at a local gallery. I did a little painting for it and lo and behold, it won 1st Place for Out-of-State entries! I’m not quite sure it deserved such an honor – there were some pretty great things in the show – but check it out here at slugqueeneugene. Just click on the glass slug with the Art Salon Gallery label, and be sure to check out the rest of the site too – it’s pretty funny! And, my contact, Marie Slugtoinette, won the title!
And now for the stitchy part! I was contacted this summer (spring?) by someone who is opening a shop in Manhattan in October that will sell teddy bears only. She asked if I would do a limited edition bear for them, and I agreed. So at least part of the summer was spent making bears! You can find them online here at tedde.com. And here are some pictures:
In the next couple of days I’ll update you on another project I’ve been working on – a fairy house version of Cinderella’s castle!