Today was the annual Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators day at Fort Mason. It was a great event with a number of wonderful speakers and fellow artists. There were a few panels of speakers including illustrator Melissa Sweet: http://melissasweet.net/. She has illustrated a number of books including, "Little Red Writing", "Balloons Over Broadway" and "A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin" to name a few of her more recent titles. She is a brilliant artist and an extremely sweet(heh) woman with great insights.
The other speakers were Melissa Manlove and Kritstine Brogno from Chronicle Books and Isabel Warren-Lynch, art director at Random House.
All the panels were informative and very interesting. And it was great seeing all the other artists' work displayed in the portfolio room.
A number of my friends from the Academy were in attendence:
Angela Dominguez: www.andillustrations.com
Hsiao-chi(Alice) Chang: http://verysillyalice.blogspot.com/
Ana Aranda: www.anaranda.canalblog.com
Alex Lee: http://alexleeillustration.blogspot.com/
Sunny Joung Sun Choi: www.sunnyjchoi.com
Isabella Kung: www.isabellakung.com
Summer K. Jeun: http://www.keumjeun.blogspot.com/
Shih-Fen Lin: http://shihfenlin.daportfolio.com/
Alexandria Gold:
And as an added bonus I got to meet the amazingly talented Alina Chau, who was extremely sweet and very pleasant to speak with.
http://alinanimation.blogspot.com/
Please visit at all my friends sites, they all are talented artists and great people. I would post some of their images but I'd rather send you to their sites so you can see all of their work. Plus I don't want to get sued or anything by Melissa Sweet, Alina Chau or any of my friends.
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