New Work, Botanical

I've fallen in love with mushrooms! These are woodland mushrooms. In my original graphite drawing I left the leaf as just a contour drawing to highlight the mushroom. For the watercolor I added a tint to the leaf because it looked too stark and was distracting. This was done with Yarka pan watercolors.

Woodland  Mushrooms 1, botanical, Donna Miskend 2015

A Month Of Writing

After a spring filled with teaching, and an emotional roller coaster of a summer, I felt I needed to get back to my projects. So I'm all in for generating new PB ideas, working on those already sketched out, and starting a MG novel I've had on the back burner forever. Just making the commitment has  started the ideas flowing. Inhale deep breath, exhale.

2015 BEAUX ARTS EXHIBIT

Three works of some favorite things, plants and animals, will be on display at the Beaux Arts Exhibit:

The Dobbs Ferry Woman's Clubhouse

54 Clinton Avenue

Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

October 17 - 18, 2015

reception Sunday, Oct. 18 from 2-4pm

Stay tuned: A recap of the Fairy Tales show is coming soon. 

Exhibit News: National Heirloom Expo

Danish Flag Poppy,  2015

I am thrilled to have my work included once again for the Art of the Heirloom show at The National Heirloom Expo in CA,
September 8 - 10.

Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland

Join me as I read selections from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland to kids, Sunday Storytime in Mr. Morgan's Library at the Morgan Library and Museum this summer during their exhibit Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland on view June 26 through October 11, 2015. 

Dates: 
June 28, 2015 at 3pm
August 16, 2015 at 3pm
August 23, 2015 at 3pm

FAIRY TALES Exhibit

I've curated another CBIG EXHIBIT- Twenty one artists come together to illustrate FAIRY TALES! On view at the Brooklyn Central Library June 11 through September 25, 2015.
And join me in conversation with Michael Patrick Hearn, children's literary historian Saturday,  September 19 at 2pm about the history and relevance of fairy tales today.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Angelique Anderson, Lisa Cinelli, Deborah Cuneo, Maria Madonna Davidoff, Diana Ting Delosh, Nancy Doniger, Laura Goetz,  Amalia Hoffman, Melissa Iwai, Yuko Katakawa, Kitty Leech,  Marie McCann, Virginia Law Manning, Jennifer Merz, Donna Miskend, Christine Mix, Annie Raulerson, Roberta Rivera, Karen Romagna, Vicky Rubin, Wallace West

Programs:Saturday, September 19 at 2pm Info Commons Room, 1st floor

special guest Michael Patrick Hearn

VENUE:  BROOKLYN CENTRAL LIBRARY   10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238

hours  Mon - Thurs. 9am-9pm    Fri-Sat 9am - 6pm    Sun 1pm - 5pm

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Free and open to the public
web site: http://www.bklynlibrary.org/events/exhibitions/

A Talk with Exhibiting Artists Here 

This exhibit and programming is underwritten by the Brooklyn Public Library.

NOTE:
Master Storytellers Exhibit extended through June 27
at the Poe Park Visitor Center 
2540 Grand Concourse, Bronx 

Master Storytellers Events Highlights

Here are some event highlights for the Master Storytellers exhibit. EXHIBIT EXTENDED due to popular demand, through June 27, 2015. On view at 

Poe Park Visitor Center 2540 Grand Concourse, Bronx 718.365.5516

Michael Patrick Hearn and me

 A panel discussion with Michael Patrick Hearn about the illustrations on view and the master storytellers represented: the brothers Grimm, Edgar Allan Poe, Mother Goose and more.

Artist panel discussion with myself, Hyo Kim, Nancy Doniger, Carol   Klio Burrell, Dave Kopka

Hyo Kim and Nancy Doniger

Exhibiting Artists: Angelique Anderson, Carol Klio Burrell, Lisa Cinelli, Nancy Doniger, Delphine Henault, Melissa Iwai, Yuko Katakawa, Dave Kopka, Candace Lee, Katherine Leech, Robin Meeks, Donna Miskend, Christine Mix, Clare Pernice, Roberta Rivera, Vicky Rubin, Shruti Sharma, Cheryl Taborsky.

Dave Kopka 

Kitty Leech

Yuko Katakawa, artwork top

Workshops: 

Roberta Rivera demo of pen and; ink

Roberta Rivera giving a workshop in pen and ink for all ages, and vegetable printing for kids.

pen and ink workshop

pen and ink workshop

  

vegetable printing w/Roberta

Donna Miskend, curator/artist
Pinnochio Cards, artwork background copyright artists

Workshop with me for school class of 1st graders making pop-up cards based on Pinnochio

Pinnochio Cards

Pinnochio Cards

Pinnochio Cards

I also did a similar public workshop with kids using Humpty Dumpty cards for Mother's Day. Unfortunately I lost all my photos, but one of the kids made 2 because she didn't want to give away her first one!   

Lucy Aponte, artwork copyright artists

Lucy Aponte of Poe Park Visitor Center giving kids a tour of the exhibit. She reviews different styles, materials and relates the work to the stories they know, such as Cheryl's work, Hickory Dickory Dock from Mother Goose.