red sings from treetops a year in colors

In this gorgeous image-filled picture book, Joyce Sidman explores the changing seasons in terms of the colors that we can explore with all of our senses. Nature is full of colors, and if you take the time to look around, you will come to appreciate the bright reds, yellows, blues, and purples around you. See our Internship page for more information about working at The Carle.Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009 ISBN: 978-0547014944

This post was written and compiled by The Art Studio’s Summer Intern, Hannah Fiske. Thank you for a fantastic and imaginative afternoon Pamela! For more information about her books, visit Pamela’s website. After Pamela’s studio activity she read a couple of her books in the Library and signed books in the Great Hall. Moms, dads, children, the whole family, sketched, scribbled, and doodled crawling caterpillars, scary Frankensteins and sunny days. Guests used larger pieces of folded paper, with the aim of eventually binding them together into a book using a three hole punch and string. Drawing a man she asked “Why might he be grumpy?” adding lines under his eyes she said “maybe he had a bad night sleep?” then drawing spiky uneven hair she continued “and then got a bad haircut.” Finally Pamela asked the guest, “What makes you grumpy?” Helping one girl who was having trouble with the word grumpy, Pamela started making her own illustration as an example and talking through the process. Pamela encouraged everyone to use their own experiences to help generate ideas, what makes them scared, how do they feel about the day, what do they love? Guests picked a word from a fishbowl, such as day, scary, crawl or love and then illustrated the word they had chosen.

She also often uses collage papers to add different textures and patterns.ĭuring Pamela’s visit to The Carle she led an illustration activity in The Studio. To make her paintings Pamela uses acrylics like water colors, layering them sometimes 30 to 40 times to get just the right effect. She creates wonderfully whimsical worlds in each image, where whales float through the sky or a man and a fox share a pot of tea. Lucky for us Pamela brought some of her original paintings to The Museum for the day, so we got a rare, up close look at her illustrations. Her most recent book, Sleep Like a Tiger, is perhaps her best so far! Last Sunday The Carle had a visit from Pamela Zagarenski, the brilliant illustrator of Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, This is Just to Say, and many others.

Red sings from treetops a year in colors