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illustration - breakfast fragment-So, there's this girl in my SCBWI group. I thought she was cute, so I drew her. That's the story, morning glory. - Aardema, John
So, there's this girl in my SCBWI group. I thought she was cute, so I drew her. That's the story, morning glory.
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illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - die zauberflöte-..or in English, The Magic Flute. It’s an opera by Mozart. He was the guy the movie Amadeus was about. Anyway, he wrote this trippy masonic opera—it’s like the Freemasons meet Cirque du Soleil. I saw some opera posters that a friend of mine had, and I thought I’d like to make one myself. The characters shown in the poster are Tamino, the prince; Pamina, daughter of the wicked Queen of the Night; and Papageno, official birdcatcher for the aforementioned queen. They don’t actually ride beasts in the opera (at least not in any production I’ve ever heard of) but they do travel around a lot. I thought it would be cool to have vehicles that are representations of their personalities.
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - frankenberry-I had a little fun with this image. I saw a picture of an old box of Franken Berry cereal, and realized that he had fingernails that look like strawberries. "Who does his nails?" I thought. Well, he does, of course!
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - blind lemon jefferson-I was in the library the other day, looking through the music collection for something new to listen to. I find that the library is a great way to not only find new artists, but to try out new genres that may not be available on your local radio stations. I ran across a musician with an interesting name: Blind Lemon Jefferson—King of the Country Blues. It’s great music to listen to on languid summer days sitting on the veranda with a cool glass of lemonade!
illustrator - portfolio - Aardema, John - miss poos-I used up the last of my season tickets to the opera last weekend. I saw “Der Rosenkavalier” by Strauss. Lots of rich costuming. Lots of waltzing. It was really terrific, even though the entire opera clocked in at four hours! Anyway, on the train ride home, I sketched this whimsical little number. Not that there’s any costumed cats in the show, of course. Although it would be fun to try my hand at drawing something from Janácek’s opera “The Cunning Little Vixen”.
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