Hello, my Beautiful September Butterflies!!
I've been a busy bee working on, you read that right, Book 2 in the ABCs of Grief series!!! Seriously, so exciting!! If you are new here let me give you a quick recap. Last year I had the amazing pleasure of illustrating "The ABCs of Grief" by Jessica Correnti. This book walks little ones through understanding grief and how to process it through simple, relatable, and child-friendly language. Life is full of changes; sometimes it can be overwhelming to understand our feelings. But this book is such an amazing tool to help not only kids work through it all but to help adults too. The first book came out early this year, and you can check it out on Jessica's website or Amazon. Photos below of the first book (eek...so cool to see the book side by side with my original illustrations).
Shortly after its release, Jessica and I started working on Book 2!! In book 2, Jessica dives into all of the Emotions and Feelings that go along with grief a little deeper and helps guide us in navigating these big accompanying feelings. We started working on sketches over late spring into early summer and over the past few months I've been feverishly painting all of the fun illustrations to pair with Jessica's amazing words. It has been a fun challenge to come up with new illustrations that are different from book 1, but still live in the same world.
I can't give away too much, you'll have to stay tuned for more details later on, but I wanted to share just a few behind-the-scenes photos of some of these illustrations to get you as excited as I am.
I enjoyed a homemade latte while I painted on this day.
Mixing both paint and colored pencil.
I'm going super colorful on the illustrations.
My sweet Frankie joined me on a day of painting (it was thunderstorming that day and he was seeking refuge under my desk...8 years old and he is still a puppy).
Can't wait for you to see all of the final pieces soon! Eeeek
Stay Tuned and I'll see you in your inbox next month!!!
xoxo
Rachel
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