I'm working on another picture book manuscript and illustrations (a personal project that I hope to present for publication someday)...and I'm collecting. I'm collecting memories.
Last summer my dear Grandma passed away. She was such a sweet and lovely person, always trying to serve and love others. I can't deny that she was my favorite Grandparent. So I began collecting my memories of her, like...
Her...
12 tips on writing from Utah State Poet Laureate Lance Larsen
Here are my notes from Lance Larsen's Speech today
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Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers- How to write
illustration by Julie Olson
Here are a few tips from Sharlee Glenn about writing picture books...
1. Choose a suitable shape for your story. Is it circular (start and then end at about the same place)? Is it linear? Is it an arc? Think visually.
2. Use ACTIVE not PASSIVE voice.
3. Use Concrete Language. Circle all your adjectives and adverbs and decide if they are really needed or if...
Creating Cute, Charismatic Characters
Yesterday I taught a workshop on creating picture book characters. I thought I would share a couple things here. When you are creating (writing or illustrating) a picture book character, think about these things...
Make sure your character is able to be "Indentified WITH." RELATABLE. You need to think about your audience, what they would indentify with, and put some part of that in your...
Signed a Contract for a new Picture Book!!! YAY!
So a while back (last September...almost a year ago) I posted this.... http://jujubeeillustrations.blogspot.com/2012/09/submitted-dummy-waiting-game.html, talking about the WAIT after submitting a picture book and what I do while I wait. Well, yesterday I posted a review of what I did during the last month of waiting. :-) But I have great news!!!
I signed a contract for that picture book! I...
Main Floor Renovation - Why I've been absent from the blog
This is my latest creative project which took 7 weeks and was only supposed to take 3-4. When we bought our house, we knew the main floor wasn't our style and that we'd renovate it someday. Well, after 8 years and a lot of planning and designing on my part, we finally bit the bullet. I am thrilled with the results.
Here is our kitchen before the remodel (well we had already taken off some drawer...
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- Julie Olson
- I'm a freelance illustrator working in the children's book industry. I love kids and raising my own 4 children. They are the inspiration and the passion behind all I do in art and in life. See my website at JulieOlsonbooks.com