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I have loved drawing
since I was very young. My favorite memories as a child are of
painting on bumpy paper with watercolors or sitting on a sunny
rock by the woods, pad and pastels in my lap. I used to
climb a tree house at the edge of a nearby field to write
poems and later, illustrate them. Given a box of crayons I
would color my way into a world of my own. There is
nothing quite like the smell of a fresh, new box of crayons -
one hundred and twenty waxy-smelling, pointy colors.
Check out my blog at
amyhuntington.blogspot.com.
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My Castle
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Layla - still life
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I've been making
pictures all my life. I went to college to learn all I could
about art at Swain School of Design in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, The University of Florida, and The University
of Vermont. I first became interested in children's
illustration twenty years ago when my children were young, and
I was reading lots of picture books to them. Ladybug Magazine
published my first illustrated story in 1996. One
Monday, my first picture book, was published by Orchard
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next to our kitchen in an old farmhouse in Williston, Vermont
where I live with my husband and two college-aged children. It
faces east over pastures and Camel's Hump Mountain. In the
summer, curious cows peer in our windows from across the road.
Wild turkeys, raptors, deer, foxes and coyotes forage in the
fields. Here I garden, make house repairs, take care of cats,
family, chickens and the occasional fish and create worlds of
my own with color and words. |
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