http://www.tomie.com/
One of my favorite of his books was one that chronicled his childhood and Irish heritage through humorous anecdotes and illustrations. In the book he described the importance of potatoes, or "praities" to Irish cuisine/daily life.
So, with St. Patrick's day being the inspiration behind the green Drop Cap, I thought it would be appropriate to make a few different stamps out of potatoes and use them to create some "P" letterforms. I'd never done this before but I had heard that people do this, so I gave it a shot! Here are the results:
what!! you made more than one!
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Kim! this is so great, I LOVE Tomie dePaola my favorite was the Legend of the Bluebonnet (it inspired my book is a book is a book) and I was also a big Strega Nona fan haha. Kudos on the inspiration, and potato stamps are so much fun to make. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys!! And Streganona was the best... I can't think of many things that could top it, books or otherwise haha
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