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Have You Seen Birds?.
Written by Joanne Oppenheim.
Illustrated by Barbara Reid.
Richmond Hill, Ont.: Scholastic Canada, 1991, c1986. |
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Original illustrations created for Have You Seen Birds?: plasticine.
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Illustrations: Reproduced by permission of Barbara Reid.
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Because of the oils in the plasticine, it dries out very slowly. When kept in airtight containers, the pictures last a long time.
"I started out working in plasticine for a school project at the Ontario College of Art. We had to reproduce a famous painting, but in a different medium, and I was going nuts trying to do the Birth of Venus in tissue paper. It wasn't working, so I tried some plasticine I had lying around the house. After that, I started adding work in plasticine to my portfolio, at first mostly caricatures; it has a humour -- childish, yet sophisticated -- that appeals to adults and kids."
(Barbara Reid quoted in "The Art of the Children's Book Illustrator: Eight Leading Artists Talk about Their Work", Quill & Quire, October 1985, volume 51, no. 10. Toronto: Key Publishers, 1985. P. 12.)
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