Here is one of the two final illustrations(each class received an original illustration) that I made for Mrs. Griffith’s class and Mrs. Plever’s class. A few weeks back the two classrooms meet online using Skype to create the story, “Mr. Bobblehead’s New Gadget and the Valentine’s Surprise.” I was really fortunate that they chose to use my artwork to tell their story on StoryBird.com, the collaborative storytelling site. The illustration is from their story, when Mr. Bobblehead and Goldie(the fish) were in the park at sunset. I hope they like the artwork, and are inspired to keep writing and drawing, because they certainly inspire me. I wanted to share a little more of the artwork process below. Thank you Mrs. Griffith, Mrs. Plever, Mrs. Ditzler, StoryBird, all of the super talented students, and to all of my friends and supporters.
Thank you so much for the awesome, wonderful, amazing, colorful and cool picture! We love it! (That is how the students described it.) I like how you showed Goldie outside the car. (Tylar) I like how you made the flowers smaller on the final picture. (Kati) I like how you put Goldie and the ice cream shop in the same picture. (Holly) I liked seeing hoe you started the drawing. (Tanner) I like the malfunctioning robot picture you drew. (Kyla) Thank you so much for sharing your artwork with us. We really appreciated it and we loved talking to you!