Boom Chicka Rock
For Boom Chicka Rock, I illustrated someone else’s text. Just illustrating a book is a very different process from writing and illustrating. Once I read the text, I began to visualize the images to fit the text, the setting and what the characters looked like. The illustrations are done in torn paper collage. I began by drawing my ideas for the illustrations. Then growing through old, outdoor clothing magazines, I tore from the magazine pages the colors, shapes, and textures to fit the drawings. Finally, I reassembled the torn pieces in the drawings, putting together the illustrations like a puzzle, using the papers to “paint” the collage into the finished illustrations.
Carefully looking at the illustrations you can find remnants of the original images clouds become the fur of the cat’s belly, broad green leaves the cat’s eyes.