tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24058889323563336302024-03-12T21:00:34.567-04:00Mark Braught | illustratorMark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-18225383586228654432020-07-01T18:19:00.007-04:002020-07-01T18:27:44.956-04:00<h3 style="text-align: left;"><font color="#d52c1f" face="arial" size="6">All future blog posts will be on my new and hopefully improved web site</font></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://markbraught.com/">https://markbraught.com/</a></h3>Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-15791577946036145572019-09-05T10:31:00.000-04:002019-09-05T10:31:47.055-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark Braught will be our guest speaker at the CLA September meeting on Wednesday, September 11th - @6:30, Faulkner County Library.</span></i></h3>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-Sign up starts this Wednesday, August 14th at the CLA Meeting.-</span></span></div>
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Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-32270173962989568162017-10-28T17:05:00.000-04:002017-11-01T19:55:13.018-04:00<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">HAPPY HALLOWEEN<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: small;">This is this year's image for the Dawson County Library Campfire Storytelling Festival, traditionally held every time this year. <span style="font-size: large;">However</span>, after this image was completed & submitted, the festival was moved to the spring of 2018. The theme for the festival will still revolve around scary stories told round the campfire, but will be in the spring, sometime in March. I am really looking forward to creating another image that will better reflect the new springtime setting for this event.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Should be loads of fun and I will definitely post how that progresses.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the meantime . . . a big BOO to you and yours!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just some fun. </span></span><br />
This was a piece I did during my visit to Hollins University last summer while teaching a pastels course.<br />
The assignment was to create an image to communicate a message using a bird and two unrelated objects. One organic, one not.<br />
This one addresses the problem, "How does one manage the challenge of eating while maintaining a roof over their head".Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-9456860432968710112017-01-31T15:47:00.000-05:002017-02-10T08:54:09.391-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last summer I had the privilege of being on the faculty at Hollins University for their <a href="https://www.hollins.edu/academics/graduate-degrees/childrens-literature-graduate-program/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">graduate program for children's literature</span> </a>and was asked to do demonstration session creating an illustration in pastel. It only seemed appropriate to create a piece that had some relevance to their program based on their famous alum <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wise_Brown" target="_blank">Margaret Wise Brown</a></span>, the well-known children's book author. It was also appropriate because I thought I could complete the piece in the hour and a half allotted for the demonstration and that their would be ample information there for all the reference needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first step was to do some research regarding Ms.Brown gathering information on her life and career. Like most assignments, I knew very little, beyond the obvious about her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She led a fascinating and exciting (although short) socialite sort of life, and a very successful professional career as an author, with the highlight authoring, <i>Goodnight Moon</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Co-<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chair of the program, <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Elizabeth Dulemba</span> was present and did a write-up with some photos of the session <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and posted it on her<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">blog</span>. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are really fun sessions and I hope those present had as much fun as I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Interview with Elizabeth Dulemba.</span> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last number of weeks I've been in Roanoke, Virginia teaching at Hollins University in their MFA & Certificate programs for Children's Book Writing and illustration. It was a wonderful experience, and I will share much of that in the near future. but in the meantime, fellow faculty member, the wonderfully talented, Elizabeth Dulemba interviewed members of the faculty for her blog. <a href="http://dulemba.blogspot.com/2016/07/faculty-catch-up-mark-braught.html"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This link will take you to the interview she did with me</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While you're there you should really take a spin through her site. It is full of wonderful work, informational things. other interviews as well other KidLit tidbits! </span>Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-18519109649852850872015-12-02T12:31:00.000-05:002015-12-03T08:59:34.797-05:00<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just in time for the <span style="color: #660000;">Holidays</span>!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A fun story about the imagination of a young boy and what he sees before he goes to sleep.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://deedspublishing.goodsie.com/whose-shadow-do-i-see"><span style="font-size: small;">http://deedspublishing.goodsie.com/whose-shadow-do-i-see </span></a></span>Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-51821742280469371202015-10-04T01:10:00.000-04:002015-10-04T01:25:04.877-04:00Campfire Storytelling poster<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Recently I completed a commission from the fine folks at the Dawson Library in Georgia for their storytelling concert in October of this year. This annual event entails an evening spent outside by a campfire listening to a number of storytellers sharing spooky tales to a young audience. They requested an emphasis on "scary" as their previous years' posters were a bit too "friendly". This presented a wonderful opportunity. Scary, but for a young audience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The client graciously gave me complete creative freedom to pursue any solution of my choice. In the initial sketches included woodland critters, scared kids, witches, pumpkins and other Halloween characters. All too busy.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finally, I focused on the character from a classic fireside story, the man with the hook hand.</span></span>To complete the concept, a campfire, a book, and the outdoors were included. The essentials.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the initial rough sketch. And like most initial things,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I thought it would be "great" if the character would appear to be reading from a book to the audience (to emphasis the library connection). Too much, and off target. It was distracting the viewer from the fact the man with the hook hand was menacing, and more importantly, looking at you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This decision was made during the reference photo session with the model. He just seemed more menacing looking directly at you with book by his side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">With some additional reference gathered for the fire, the trees and the moon I transferred the finished composition to the final working surface (Strathmore Bristol series 400 paper) using charcoal and a bit of workable fix to keep in in place to begin the color work. The type was very roughly placed to help with the placement of the moon, that was to be integrated into the final type solution. The final type was done separately and placed digitally into the final painting.</span></div>
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This type was created using a black pastel and done separately from the painting and applied digitally to allow greater freedom in choosing the right colors and position for the final poster. <br />
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Through the process of working on the poster, I departed from my reference and eliminated much of the information in the face and jacket of the character to help emphasize just how scary this guy was<br />
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<br />Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-30159267784901801312015-06-29T16:59:00.002-04:002015-06-29T17:16:17.732-04:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OUT IN SEPTEMBER</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been tucked
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National vs. American, East coast vs.West coast, who's better, what ifs, and the recital of statistics all come down to this annual showdown for every football fan</span>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A battle for bragging rights . . . until it all begins again next season. It's become an almost national holiday, in stature, tradition for get togethers. Here's to a great weekend for fun, excitement, food & drink for everyone.</span></span><br />
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</span>Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-10367406968597979872015-01-28T21:08:00.000-05:002015-01-29T07:59:12.594-05:00<span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FACEBOOK CHALLENGE Day 5</span></span></b></span><br />
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In commemoration of this new weekly celebration of our past, it seemed appropriate to acknowledge some of those people in 1984 that gave me some of those first breaks to start my career as an illustrator. I'm very grateful to these people who took a gamble and gave the <i>new kid</i> (pictured here) some work. Dawn, Curt Chuvalas, Lloyd Brooks & Brian Miller. In keeping with the theme I chose Andrea Eberbach and hope she will join in on the fun of this challenge. She was the first illustrator in Indianapolis I met (a fun story in itself) and took me into the fold. Thanks again to Bethanne Hill, Tim Jessell, and Tina Cargill for this wonderful opportunity of the last five days.<br />
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Day four I decided to post some images from my days teaching at the Creative Circus, an advertising school in Atlanta. These images were created for student creative teams for various advertising projects/assignments for their classes. They were a great opportunity to explore new directions, try some new things and work with some incredibly talented and new people in the advertising industry. Many of these people have gone on to do great things in the advertising community and it was a real treat to get to work with them!<br />
In addition to the images posted on Facebook, here are some additional things as well.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first was for Sleeping Bear Press and their children's book, <i>P is for Peach, a Georgia Alphabet. </i>"O" is for Okefenokee Swamp.The duck was a calendar assignment from a printer in the midwest. The only parameters were that a bowl<i>, </i>the days of month, and some sort of reference to that month<i> </i></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">be included somewhere in the painting.The small bird was a commission from the Hal Riney agency out west for Saturn Car Company.</span></span></span><br />
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Recently, friend and fellow ex-Terre Hautean, the incredibly accomplished illustrator, Tim Jessell invited me to participate in the Facebook painting challenge. The challenge consists of posting three images on Facebook for five days and nominating a new artist each day. What a fun opportunity this has turned out to be. It's been fun to revisit some past images, an opportunity to show somethings that maybe a bit unexpected and acknowledge some people I am very grateful to (I already have all the images selected for the five days). All of the images for the second day were assignments that involved portraits of literary related folks.<br />
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<span class="userContent"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Be looking for more of these neighbors as well as a few not from around here, that would just be fun to do. I see a Cedar Waxwing in the near future.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-82083302484696874042014-05-24T18:44:00.000-04:002014-08-20T11:08:44.273-04:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://sbillustrators.blogspot.com/2014/05/2014-scbwi-southern-breeze-childrens.html">SCBWI 2014 Southern Breeze Illustrators Show</a> </span></span><br />
I<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">f you're in the downtown Decatur, Georgia area this Memorial Day weekend, this isn't a bad stop to make. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Original art on exhibit from a number of published children's books, by a number of illustrators. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year’s show features works by <a href="http://www.dulemba.com/">Elizabeth Dulemba</a>, <a href="http://jilldubin.com/illustration.html">Jill Dubin</a>, <a href="http://www.gas-art.com/about-r-gregory-christie/">R. Gregory Christie</a>, <a href="http://www.hillustrate.com/">Prescott Hil</a>l, <a href="http://susan-nees.squarespace.com/">Susan Nees</a>, <a href="http://www.amyschimler.com/">Amy Schimler</a>, <a href="http://freemanhines.wix.com/laura">Laura Freeman</a>, <a href="http://www.thebillmayer.com/">Bill Mayer</a>, <a href="http://mikelowery.com/">Mike Lowery</a>, <a href="http://www.sfhardy.com/">Sarah Frances Hardy</a>, <a href="http://lorinichols.com/Lori_Nichols/NEW_HOME.html">Lori Nichols</a>, and Yours Truly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Here is one of mine that will be there, from <a href="http://markbraught.com/405.html"><i>P is for Peach, a Georgia Alphabet.</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The opening was last night. It is always wonderful to see everyone and catch-up with old and new friends over dinner afterwards. Here's a <a href="http://sbillustrators.blogspot.com/2014/05/2014-scbwi-southern-breeze-gallery-show.html">link to some photos</a> of the festivities!</span><br />
<br />Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-59450315864308351062014-04-29T23:15:00.000-04:002014-05-01T13:13:56.782-04:00<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The World of Nickhoo!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a CD cover and the tunes are available on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-world-of-nickhoo/id853879568?ign-mpt=uo%3D4">i-tunes</a> & <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JI1OG7U/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00JI1OG7U&linkCode=as2&tag=drejamwor-20">amazon</a> now. The physical release is in the works currently. This has been a fun project and group of people to be involved with. My participation has been only in the character development aspect of the program, but it has been a rewarding experience. Follow this <a href="http://theworldofnickhoo.com/index.html#prettyPhoto">link</a> to learn more about their program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now it's only the originals and prints, but things are in the works for some other offerings, in addition to more birds of course.</span>Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-1657909321310435092014-03-04T21:54:00.000-05:002014-03-04T21:59:25.526-05:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="goog_737766885"></span><span style="color: #e69138;">Dahlonega Literary Festival this weekend!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is one of my favorite festivals, and truly look forward to it every year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Holly Theatre is one of the wonderful attractions there. This was done as part of a series</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">of note cards depicting various points of interest in Dahlonega GA.</span></span><br />
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<br />Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405888932356333630.post-31642215809968877482014-02-28T09:12:00.000-05:002014-02-28T09:12:05.563-05:00<span style="font-size: large;">Getting ready for the <a href="http://www.folk-finearts.com/">Folk to Fine Art Festival</a></span><br />Going to have these and a number of other surprises<br />in addition to the books and prints.<br />
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These are a series of quick watercolor sketches over pencil.<br />They measure roughly 5.5" x 7"<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Th</span>is is something done a bit ago, but decided to revisit it. Originally, this was done digitally. Wanted to try it conventionally with pastel. Was never quite satisfied with the background so some digital magic was applied.Mark Braughthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04884079353009266621noreply@blogger.com0