This stencil, Dogwood Blossoms, is inspired by the dogwood trees that have bloomed lavishly this spring in New York after being frozen out last year. I love the way the petals are shaped, and that the flowers face up towards the sky
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Dandelions and Lilies (L976), a new stencil from StencilGirl Products! Another in the Tall Flowers and Marsh Flowers series, the flowers are a little shorter and better for use on horizontal format journals. This stencil, like the others, refers to flower picking along the fence row–a pastime of my childhood.
Six new stencils from @StencilGirl!
Queen Anne’s Lace, cornflower, black-eyed susans, thistles: all the flowers that grew in the fence row along the lane where I grew up in Ohio are represented in this stencil Marsh Flowers (L942):
Check out these stencils and more at the StencilGirl site! 
Six new stencils from @StencilGirl! These stencils are inspired by my childhood next to a wonderful pond and a giant swamp. My brother and I played there endlessly. There are flowers, creatures, and even some mushrooms!
To see these and other stencils I have designed, go to the StencilGirl site. Its fun to look around their site and see all the wonderful stencils and artists represented–its a great resource.
Here are cards made with the new Woodland Creatures stencils (L945 and L946):
Yay! New stencils from @StencilGirl! So excited to be making stuff with my new StencilGirl stencils. In this video, I make a weird mushroom/family page in my Moleskine watercolor landscape journal:
Thank you to Daniel Levy for the video!
To purchase the mushroom stencil or any of these six new stencils, go to the StencilGirl site. Look around while you are there–so many wonderful artists are represented.
I am excited to be working with @StencilGirl Products again to bring you six new stencils inspired by the the swamp next to my childhood home–a place of great mystery and magic. In this video (thank you again Daniel Levy!!), I demonstrate the stencil Marsh Creatures (L941) in a Moleskine watercolor landscape journal:
To see these six new stencils and more, go to StencilGirl!
I am proud to once again have a whole new batch of stencils out from @StencilGirlProducts! There are six in this bunch of woodland, marsh and botanical inspired designs: Here’s a video (thanks, Daniel Levy!) where I demo Sinuous Vines (L944) in a larger landscape format Moleskine watercolor journal:
This stencil and more are available from StencilGirl.
GIVEAWAY!
Drawing on Sunday December 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM Eastern time. If I draw your name, I’ll send you a signed copy of THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT: Things That Shine, Flash and Glow!
Leave a comment below to enter to win a copy of THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT. No purchase necessary! You can write anything in the comments to be entered in the drawing, but it would be fun if you could tell me about a source of light that is linked to a wonderful experience for you: like seeing fireworks with your family, or toasting marshmallows at a beach bonfire, twinkling lights on a tree, the first firefly of summer…
To get you started, here’s one of mine: in Ohio, where I grew up, there were a lot of fireflies in the summer. When I looked out off the back porch, I could see them blinking in the grass, but they would also cluster in the trees, and the trees would gleam in the night.
Only one winner, and only US and Canadian entries, please!
To celebrate the publication of my new book, The Science of Light, I’ll be signing books til they run out! Thanks to Hudson Co-op for hosting (Thanks Laura, Sue and Kat!) and to WordUp Community Bookshop for being the bookseller of note (thanks, Veronica!). There will be light related giveaway, a drawing for a copy of THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT: Things That Shine, Flash and Glow (Holiday House)
at Hudson Co-op, 817 W. 187th Street. Come say Hi!
THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT Things That Shine Flash and Glow (Holiday House) is an Orbis Pictus Honor Book! You can read more about the award here: https://ncte.org/awards/orbis-pictus-award-nonfiction-for-children/
The 2023 gold winner is Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond and Daniel Minter. The four other Honor Books are Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmet Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy and Janelle Washington, Fighting for Yes! The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and Vivian Mildenberger, Hardcourt, Stories from 75 Years of the National Basketball Association by Fred Bowen and James E. Ransome, and Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki.
I am humbled to be in such amazing company.
The Orbis Pictus Awards are given each year by the NCTE, or The National Council of Teachers of English to honor the non-fiction books for children and their creators. Orbis Pictus refers to a book by Johannes Amos Comenius: Orbis Pictus: The World in Pictures, written in 1658 and thought to be the first children’s book–and a non-fiction one at that.
