You love mythology, right? Well, this book contains 96 pages of my illustrations accompanying Lise Lunge Larsen’s retellings of Greek and Roman myths — myths about characters whose names are forever embedded in our language, like Janus, the two-headed god of doorways, from whose name we get the word “janitor”.
2011, Houghton Mifflin – 96 pp., full color hybrid picture book / graphic novel – ORDER A SIGNED COPY
paperback $8.99 ISBN 978-0544810860
hardcover $18.99 ISBN 978-0547152295
Sample pages:
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“A treat for myth lovers and language lovers alike, this smart and well-executed compilation should provide readers with a deeper understanding of the ways in which language evolves and of the surprising symbolism behind certain words.”– Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Medium:
Pencil and watercolor with a lot of digital augmentation. That is, I did the rough layouts digitally, printed them out and penciled over them, scanned the pencils back in, cleaned them up and darkened them, printed them out on watercolor paper and painted over them.