Allow Myself to Introduce Myself

carlianne

@maryannlucas welcome to our community!!

Jeremy Ross

Melissa_Bailey

@maryannlucas welcome! Your paintings on your website are gorgeous. There is so much life in your brushwork.

As you're on your children's book journey, if you're looking for picture book recommendations, you may be interested in these:

Hum and Swish by Matt Myers -- one of my favorite books, illustrated in acrylic and oil. Your plein air pieces remind me of this book ... maybe similar style or subject matter?
A Stone for Sascha by Aaron Becker -- a wordless picture book rendered digitally with very expressive mark making.
Honeybee and Giant Squid both written by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann. -- While these nonfiction books are well written, the draw for me is Eric Rohmann's illustrations rendered in oil on paper. They're gorgeous!

These books inspire me, both as an author and an illustrator -- hope they help inspire you too!

lizardillo

Welcome . Your painting are amazing!

CosmoglotJay

Hi Maryann! I checked out your paintings - such good work!

TessaW

Welcome!!!

MaryannLucas

@heather-boyd Hi Heather. Thank you so much for the nice welcome. I am looking forward to being part of this community.

MaryannLucas

@randarrington Hi. Thanks so much for welcoming me. This is a very creative community. So awesome.

MaryannLucas

@asyas_illos I have a question. What is an upvote? Why do people do it?

MaryannLucas

@burvantill Hi.
Thanks for the nice welcome. I wondered if you could tell me what an upvote is? Also, how do I post to the January Studio? Finally, I inadvertently deleted my post in the "introduction" section. Is it possible to undue that?

And... I looked at your work. I love it.

MaryannLucas

@carlianne Thank you for the warm welcome!

MaryannLucas

@jeremy-ross THANK YOU FOR THE WARM WELCOME!!

MaryannLucas

@melissa-bailey-0 HOW SWEET ARE YOU!! I will definitely check out your recommendations, and I am so touched that you took a look at my paintings. So generous of you.

MaryannLucas

@lizardillo Hi! Thank you so much for having a look and leaving such nice feedback. Just followed you on Instagram. Love your work.

MaryannLucas

@cosmoglotjay Thanks so much for the welcome and for taking a look at my work. Means so much.

Asyas_illos

@maryannlucas it’s basically a “like” button. You can click it to show your support for whatever it is. At least that’s what I’ve gathered over the time I’ve been here.

burvantill

@maryannlucas

@maryannlucas said in [Allow Myself to Introduce Myself](/post/129848

I wondered if you could tell me what an upvote is? Also, how do I post to the January Studio? Finally, I inadvertently deleted my post in the "introduction" section. Is it possible to undue that?

And... I looked at your work. I love it.

An up vote is similar to a like.
In the January virtual studio or any post there is a blue reply button at the top right on a device, or at the bottom of the original topic, you can click on to respond or to add to the post.
If you can still see your deleted post but it's grayed out, go to the little three dots to the right of the post and you can undo it. If you can't see it at all then it's been purged and you'll have to re-post
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Nyrryl Cadiz

@maryannlucas welcome to the forum!!!

DoodleMick

@maryannlucas said in Allow Myself to Introduce Myself:

Then I completed the Children's Book Pro course,

Welcome. I am new here as well. I also saw the Childrens Book Pro Course, but I have not signed up for that one yet. How did you like it?
I am just starting the Writing Picture Books course now by Ann Whitford Paul. It's a few years old, but she has a revised textbook that seems nice.