What did I like as a kid?
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@Robert-Henderson @kirsten-mcg I'm glad you both like the idea! It's great to see what others were influenced by, thanks for sharing!
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@Kristen-Lango I love this idea! I don't know if I have time to do this exercise right now, but I'll just say that you guys could all be my kids!
As a kid I liked: The Snowy Day, Walter Farley, Garth Williams, Tasha Tudor, and Trina Schart Hyman. And anything that had folk costumes in it.
You can do the math if you want...
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@LauraA thanks for sharing Laura!
I'm totally with you on the folk costumes! I used to be involved with a polish folk dance group in Milwaukee, and my goodness the color and design inspiration from those folk dresses 
I still revisit it in my work sometimes when I play with gouache
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@Kristen-Lango I really like this style.
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@PenAndrew Thank you!
I definitely want to do more full spread illustrations in just gouache -
Here are some books I've recently rented for inspiration
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This was a really fun little dive, I am still highly motivated by almost all of these lol
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@Kristen-Lango I love the colors on the Wildfire and Mel Fell books. I haven't see the Wildfire book before, I will have to go look for it.
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@HeatherB This was so awesome to see! I love that someone else shares my love of Fozzie Bear and Gonzo
Gonzo's mysterious identity is one of the things that really stuck in my mind as a kid... Is he a bird? Is he an ant eater? Probably he is neither and yet he is such a strong character
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@Kim-Rosenlof Right? The Wildfire book is one I found strolling the stacks at my local library and it really is so striking, but has a nice balance at the same time, which we all know is incredibly difficult to do.
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@Kristen-Lango yes! The first time I learned that sometimes the best of something is in the mystery of it was when they had that movie where Gonzo was supposed to be an alien. I don’t accept that as canon.
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@HeatherB What a great lesson! And goodness I don't think I've seen that film, now I'll have to go watch it!
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@HeatherB I found I really love the muppet movies, much to my surprise, especially Muppets Christmas Carol.
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@PenAndrew that’s a great one! I think the ones that let The shrimp or the rat go nuts are surprising great. I didn’t think my fav line of “a bear in his natural habitat, a studebaker” could be topped but Pepe the shrimp with “I like my women like I like my coffee- a latte” is just about there
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@PenAndrew ahh yess! I love Muppets Christmas Carol - especially when the rats sing dressed in tropical clothing as a response to Scrooge not keeping the office warm enough
Also any fans of A Muppet Family Christmas?!
People in my home town thought I was so strange for liking them, but they weren't creatives
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@Kristen-Lango I think it only works because it has the crucial Jim Henson feeling, because it has FEELING. I met someone who worked for this company and they said it had a kind of family moto above the door, with the sentiment that they all created the thing together. Something like that- sorry it has been about 13 years!
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@PenAndrew That is so neat! It's so cool you know someone who worked for them. I totally get what you mean about the "feeling" aspect of these films.
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@HeatherB You must be an 80s kid
LOVE seeing this stuff, I've forgotten Pee Wee lol, He might have inspired and tormented me at the same time.Erin Richardson
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@ArtistErin guilty lol. He did a skit I think on snl that was just him eating those dotted candy on a roll of paper one at a time and laughing like “one.. haha! Two….” It makes no sense but that has lived in my head rent free ever since
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@HeatherB LOL Omg I snorted as I read your reply, funny how these things stick with you and somehow shape your psyche
I'll have to check out that skit. Nothing better than a true classic from SNL that lasts forever!!!
