Mid-Atlantic SCBWI Meeting

© Sylvia Liu

Just got back from a great weekend in northern Virginia for the annual Mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference. A quick recap:

Friday Illustrator Intensives

1. Workshop with Viking Children's Books Art Director Nancy Brennan 

Before we arrived, Nancy Brennan gave us an assignment to illustrate the opening spread of SURPRISE SOUP, by Mary Ann Rodman, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Viking Children's Books 2009). She gave us a working manuscript so the text is not the same as the published text. I came up with this piece: