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Text by Mary Forsell
When you’re really driven, obstacles dissolve. By day, (a) Jerry Pinkney plugged
away as an advertising artist. By night, he spread his wings illustrating
picture books—a dream that eventually became his full-time calling. Some hundred
titles later, this recipient of multiple Caldecott Medal honors and Coretta
Scott King awards has become one of America’s most celebrated
illustrators.(b) Kaffe Fassett, by contrast, ditched traditional art school to
pursue knitting—despite naysayers. For decades, this London-based guru of the
needlework world has been busily proving them wrong, discovering new ways of
working with yarn, thread, and fabric.
(c) All Kaffe Fassett fabrics, such as these florals, begin as
gouache
paintings. (d) A turtle comes out of his shell
in celebration of
reading in
this watercolor/gouache by Jerry
Pinkney.
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