Friday
Nov202009
Illustration Friday: Music
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Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:21PM
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:21PM 
This week’s Illustration Friday submission comes from the bilingual children’s book, Mayte and the Bogeyman / Mayte y el cuco. Mayte makes music on a slide whistle while Don Ricardo, the neighborhood blade sharpener, hones his craft. The story features several types of cart vendors in Puerto Rico, where they are quite common, including grocery vendors, a newspaper man, and “The Bogeyman” himself: the ice cream vendor.
I had initially gotten a few details wrong with the sketches (Mayte was wearing clothes too warm for that climate) and wanted to ask my publisher for a “research trip” down to Puerto Rico to “get all the details right.” However, I suspected that request wouldn’t fly so I didn’t push my luck. Oh well…
Reader Comments (13)
I don't blame you for trying! :)
Wonderful illustration!
Oh this is so sweet and beautiful. I love the page composition and the colors really pop. Nice work!
Woww, great work !!! .. and so sweet.
Slide whistle! I love it. Well, maybe you didn't get that research trip this time, but someday they'll be willing to fly you anywhere you please, I just know it! Here's to lots of "research" trips in your future!
Hey that sounds like a good write off to me!
Wonderful work!
Great illustration and nice try for a trip to Puerto Rico :O) Hey I'm working on a book about a turtle in Hawaii right now, maybe I should do some research myself. Love your style Christina.
You are so talented, Christina!
This is a lovely picture, it looks warm and I can imagine being right there listening to that whistle. :)
GREAT WORK! I'm always impressed with your illustrations!
Beautiful illustration!!
lovely illo, christina! you deserve that trip, go ahead and ask next time, you never know!
You have my vote for the trip. Your illustrations are always so beautiful already, imagine what you could do with full immersion into the culture!