Once again in honour of my niece who is marrying her Prince Charming, miles away on a Caribbean Cruise and I can’t be there. I am so proud of her achieving the ultimate happily-ever-after and sharing with family and good friends, surrounded by blue ocean, their two beautiful children in wrapt attendance.
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As I’m focused on picture books for children through my 12 x 12 challenge, I’ve also just enrolled in a class on The Art of the Picture Book illustration class with Shadra Strickland.
(Of course, I could never be as good as Vincente Romaro who’s paintings I’ve just discovered!)
So for a ‘tester’ project, I’m going to use a poem I wrote many years ago (and I mean many) in the early 60’s called “The Prima Ballerina”.
I hope to show you how I adapt it to a PB and slowly, how I have a go at illustrating it too…
The Prima Ballerina
She lives in a world of fairy tales,
all fantasy, happiness and woe.
Floating across the stage in tulle,
fine silk or organza.,
softly pirouettes through the mist,
or dies upon the snow.
This is the world of Ballet
of the…
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