![]() ![]() The point of view is Duck’s, looking out over the crowd (we see his back and tail, wings outstretched). The original cover depicted a national political convention. She also showed her first draft cover for Doreen Cronin’s Duck for President. “Weirdly helps me draw ‘sound’ words like BOOM and CRASH because sometimes I can’t imagine what they look like,” she explained. Lewin brought along her cartoon friend, Weirdly, to show the children how to draw expressions: mad, sad, excited, laid back and cool, mischievious, shy. “Anybody want to move to Brooklyn?” she asked. He pays neighborhood kids to model for him. ![]() Ted Lewin paints his realistic watercolors by studying photographs. When she showed her husband’s studio on the fourth floor, she pointed out that it was far bigger than hers, not because he was more important, but because it also housed a photography studio. ![]() Her living room is filled with souvenirs from her world travels–Africa, Australia, the Galapagos–places where she has observed animals and gained inspiration. ![]() Lewin showed photos of her 120 year-old Brooklyn brownstone. Two Kindergarten classes filed into the library with clipboards and crayons, eager to learn from a master cartooner.īut first, Mrs. The whimsical illustrator of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and countless other barnyard books visited our local elementary school and entertained the kids with a mix of slide show, drawing lesson and Q&A. What a lucky duck–I got to meet the moovelous Betsy Lewin this week. ![]()
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