Illustrator interview for July
Children’s book illustrator Patrice Barton, with four new picture books just out and coming out from Knopf Books for Young Readers shares her working process with us and answers questions from students.
Patrice Barton Interview Part 1 from Mark Mitchell on Vimeo.
Her clients have included Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, Scholastic Book Club, Ideals Children’s Books, Ladybug Magazine, Clubhouse Jr. Magazine, Highlights, Highlights High Five, Hazelden Educational Publishing, and Red Leaf Press.
She’s represented by Christina Tugeau.
Patrice Barton Interview Part 2 from Mark Mitchell on Vimeo.
Patty recently visited and spoke with students of Mark Mitchell’s Children’s Book Illustration I class at the Art School of the Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria in Austin, Texas.
Patrice talks to class from Mark Mitchell on Vimeo.
She recently guest-posted on New York Times bestselling children’s and YA author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog, Cynsations about the difference between illustrating for picture books and chapter books. You can read her post here.
The videos are accessible to students of the Make Your Splashes-Make Your Marks! online course on illustrating for children’s books and media.
