there’s always a way to make a studio 🎨 . #idealbookshelf #bibliophilebook #booksbooksbooks #gouache
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Ideal Bookshelf: Helen Keller
I’m late on posting this but I painted some of Helen Keller’s favorite books, for the 50th anniversary of her death, for PBS’s American Experience. see more below! repost from @americanexperiencepbs What did Helen Keller read? 📖 On the 50th anniversary of her death, biographer Dorothy Herrmann discusses the writer and activist’s passion for philosophy,…
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happy towel day!!
and 42 to you!! (repost from @idealbookshelf which my friend Li is in charge of, and that is her lovely hitchhiker-y thumb too 😍👍🏽) ps, don’t tell anyone, but this might be my favorite of all our pins.
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best agent ever
my book agent Kate Woodrow at @presentperfectlit is the VERY BEST, and I made her a painting of some of the excellent books she has agented or edited. and I stuck my book-to-be on the end there; it would never even have been a concrete *idea* without her, let alone a real thing. 😘❤️ @katewoodrow…
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getting things done
I managed to update the front page of @idealbookshelf for the first time in like 4 months and it is sad how satisfied I feel. #itsthelittlethings #ireallyneedtohiresomeone #idealbookshelfR
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Dr. MLK, Jr.
I painted the inspiring books Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr read! #Repost @americanexperiencepbs ・・・ What did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. read? 📖 We spoke with @claybornecarson, the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, about King’s relationship to the Bible, his opinion of Marx, and the science fiction novel that…
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Everything, Everything
I am SO late to this, clearly (and refused to see the movie first), but just read it today and it is super lovely ❤️. . #EverythingEverything by @nicolayoon (Ember 2017 paperback, art by Good Wives and Warriors @worldofgwaw , design by Natalie C. Sousa @nataliecsousa )
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