At it again—Shelf-talkers

We're having another shelf-talker craft at the library, but this time it's for Valentine's Day, and it's open to children, teens, and adults. We're calling it "The Book I Love," and the object is for everyone to pick a book and do a shelf-talker to put up in the library so that on February 14th, the shelves are papered with love notes to books!

In order to do this, of course, we need a flyer, so I made a few shelf-talkers to use on the flyer as examples of what we have in mind. Of course, they can be a lot less elaborate than this—just text and a few tiny hearts would do—but I tend to like to include something that evokes the book visually. So here are my shelf-talkers—one from an adult, one from a teen, one for a picture book.

Hiatus, new start

It's hard for me to believe that I didn't draw or paint anything for more than a month...but I didn't. I thought about it, I doodled a little, but I never made time. So on New Year's Day, I decided I'd better do something to set the precedent for the rest of the year. Since it's the Year of the Rooster, I found a reference photo and did one of those; but I wasn't terribly satisfied with it, so the next day I did another. There is such infinite variety in roosters, this could go on for a while if I decided to do that--we'll see! So here are Rooster 1 and Rooster 2, and Happy New Year.