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书架：内部卡森埃利斯的梦幻波特兰工作室

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06/18/19

拍下Paige Jones.

如果您在Illustrator的异想天话世界中丢失了卡森·埃利斯（她的书，包括家，杜工业区德?，和神秘的本尼迪克社会通过特伦顿·李·斯图尔特，变出两个朴素的怀旧和年龄相符的忧郁），你可能不会感到惊讶地得知在波特兰郊区的一个亲昵摇摇欲坠的农场，她的两个儿子，艺术家的生活和她的独立摇杆丈夫，乐团The Decemberists科林·梅洛伊。哦，还有大量的美洲驼。她除了目录一打儿童书籍卡尔森也是12月份的长期插画，并获得了2015年LP设计的格莱美提名，多么可怕的世界，一个美丽的世界．她很有礼貌地带我们参观了她美丽的工作室，并向我们展示了她创作过程的各个方面，从她的故事是如何实现的，到母亲的身份对她的工作产生了怎样的影响。点击观看下面的完整旅程!

对于从作家和插图画家背后的一些您最喜爱的儿童读物更多的灵感，看看我们以前的“书架”上的配置文件基督教罗宾逊，Jon Klassen.，余义莫拉尔斯，和Isabel Sanchez Vemara，

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: "I live on a small farm in Oregon and my studio is a little house in a field on my property. It used to be a building for drying nuts—we have hazelnut and walnut trees here. My family thinks it’s funny to call it 'the nuthouse.'"

: 把户外活动带进来。

: “卖给我们这块地的女人是一名普通空气画家，所以它已经被用作工作室，是一个理想的工作场所。我在屋里放了一个木火炉来取暖，还装了一堆天窗，因为自然光对我来说很重要。俄勒冈州的冬天很沉闷，很难得到自然光。最近，我也雇了一个朋友来做一些储物架，这真的改变了这个空间以及我和它的关系。我一直讨厌我的工作室，因为里面塞满了东西，没有地方放任何东西:画布、砧板、包装材料、信纸、装裱好的艺术品、我的缝纫机。它们都堆在一起，凌乱得让我发疯。我甚至不知道我的工作室让我变得有多疯狂，直到我把储物架建好并整理好一切。现在的天堂。”

: "In general, I’m in my studio every weekday from about 10 a.m. until my kids are home from school. Sometimes I work later, until dinner. On very rare occasions, I go back out to work after everyone’s in bed. I’m a night person and love to work late, but I also have to get up around 7 a.m. every weekday morning, so I don’t usually indulge in that. Working at night fires up my brain in a way that makes it hard for me to wind down and go to sleep at a reasonable hour. But I’m an incurable night owl. I just spent time in Montana for an artist’s retreat without my family and I went to bed at about 3 a.m. every night. No matter how long I’ve been getting up early with kids—13 years now—I will snap back into that crazy schedule the moment I’m able."

: 一幅美丽的画作正在进行中。

: “总在我的办公桌：机械铅笔与0.5毫米HB铅，笔尖钢笔，希金斯印度墨水，多种棕色油墨，圆合成水彩笔刷数字0-6，水粉，搪瓷调色板，无印良品笔，冷压水彩画纸，写生簿，一切纸机“。

: 两位艺术家的作品。

Michaels. I’m there all the time and I get what I can, but they don’t carry a lot of things. If I can wait until my next trip to town, then I go to Blick or my favorite independently owned Portland place, Columbia Art & Drafting. If I can’t, I buy things online. Art supply stores—being able to wander around them and peruse stuff—are important to me though, so I avoid Amazon when I can, so as not to help put them out of business."">: “我住在波特兰的郊区，我当地的艺术用品店是一家迈克尔斯．我在那里所有的时间，我得到了我可以，但他们没有携带很多东西。如果我能等到我下次去镇上，然后我去耀光或者我最喜欢独立拥有的波特兰地点，哥伦比亚艺术与起草．如果我不能，我在网上买东西。艺术供应商店 - 能够徘徊在他们身边，仔细佩戴物品 - 虽然对我来说很重要，所以我避开亚马逊，因为我可以，所以不要帮助他们摆脱营业。“

Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak—a very weird and moody picture book for an indeterminate audience. Not indeterminate—I knew it was a book published for young kids—but it seemed like it was as much a book for gloomy teenagers. Or anybody, really. Anyway, it was the first book I remember seeing that married these two things that I loved to do in such a satisfying way, and I think the fact that it didn’t seem explicitly for children—or not for children—impressed me. Also, I think I found it at a moment that I was wishing I was still a carefree kid, not someone about to be an adult and ill-equipped for it. It must have felt good to get lost in a mysterious book that made me feel little again. Basically, it was a book that made deep sense to me in that moment, and it inspired a life-long obsession with picture books."">: “当我还是个十几岁的阴沉我喜欢写诗，并说明它。在某些时候，我碰到在那里外面莫里斯·森达克(Maurice sendak)的作品，这是一本非常怪异而又喜怒无常的图画书，适合不确定的读者。不是不确定——我知道这是一本为小孩子们出版的书——但它似乎也同样是一本为忧郁的青少年们写的书。或任何人,真的。不管怎么说，这是我记得的第一本书，把我喜欢做的两件事以如此令人满意的方式结合在一起。我认为，这本书似乎不是明确地为孩子们写的，或者说不是为孩子们写的，这一点给我留下了深刻的印象。同时，我认为我发现的那一刻，我希望我仍然是一个无忧无虑的孩子，而不是一个即将成为成年人的人，并没有准备好。沉浸在一本神秘的书中，让我再次感到自己的渺小，这种感觉一定很好。基本上，那一刻这本书对我有深刻的意义，它激发了我对图画书的终身痴迷。”

: 漂亮的调色板。

Home, was the product of a lot of thinking and soul searching. The second one, Du Iz Tak?, came to me in a flash when I was lying in bed with my sleeping kid and thinking about the lettuce seeds that had just sprouted in my greenhouse. The third one came to me while I was drawing with my six year old. He said, 'Draw a half room. Everything in it is half. Half a table. Half a chair.' So I drew this half room and I looked at the drawing and thought, 'Oh! That’s a book!' Regardless, they all started with a visual idea, not a narrative one. I did write a manuscript for each book, but when it came time to storyboard them I had a pretty clear idea of what they would look like. The art came first."">: “我似乎每两三年才会想出一本像样的图画书。我有一些朋友，他们有一长串的书单，上面列出了他们一直在排序、修改和添加的书的想法。我不。我很羡慕，但我做不到。这可能是因为我并没有基于写作和讲故事的创造性实践——我主要专注于制作视觉艺术。这可能是因为我不擅长构思出书的想法。不管怎样，在过去的十年里，我已经为孩子们写了三本书——第三本我正在写——它们都以不同的方式来到我的身边。第一个,家，是很多思维和灵魂搜索的产物。第二个，杜工业区德?当我睡觉的孩子和睡觉的孩子躺在床上躺在床上并思考在我的温室中发芽的莴苣种子时来到我的闪光灯上。当我六岁的时候，第三个来找我。他说，'画半个房间。它的一切都是一半。一半桌子。一半的椅子。所以我画了这个半房，我看着绘画和思想，'哦！那是一本书！'无论如何，他们都开始了视觉思想，而不是一个叙述。我确实为每本书写了一份稿件，但是当它来到故事板时，我对他们看起来的样子很清楚了解。 The art came first."

The Decemberists, my husband’s (then boyfriend’s) band. That’s how Steve found me—through the Decemberists—and he got me started as an illustrator of other people’s books. After about ten years of that, and of thinking up, and eventually scrapping, a lot of my own ideas, I wrote Home, my first picture book. Steve liked it and found a publisher for it." ">: “大约15年前，一位名叫史蒂夫·马尔克(Steve Malk)的文学经纪人联系了我，他是个很棒、很聪明的人，问我是否想从事儿童读物的创作。当然，我做到了。我从十几岁起就一直想做这件事，但我不知道该怎么做。我当时主要是作为一个编辑插图画家和为12月份是我丈夫(当时的男友)的乐队。这就是史蒂夫如何通过十二月主义者找到我的——他让我开始为别人的书画插图。经过大约十年的思考和最终的废弃，我写下了很多自己的想法家，我的第一本图画书。史蒂夫喜欢它，并为它找到了出版商。”

: 上述木材燃烧炉。

: 和货架让她的工作组织。

: "I think that kids are open to anything. They don’t have a lifetime of reading behind them, informing their engagement with books. They don’t know what to expect from a narrative yet. They don’t need to see a character grow and develop to be invested. They don’t need a story to have an obvious arc or conflict and resolution. Literature has conventions that are so hard-baked into our reading experiences that we take them for granted as necessary ingredients of a good story. When books deviate from those conventions, some of which feel kind of arbitrary to me, we think those books are strange. But kids don’t know those conventions yet. They understand resonance and they use books as jumping off points for imagining things. Sometimes they like books purely for the enjoyment of picking out animals that they recognize and have just learned to say the names of. They look at illustrations and invent their own stories without prompting. Kids are the best audience because they are down for just about anything. They’re the ultimate avant-garde readers, and I love to think that sometimes, when we make weird books and kids understand them, they teach the adults around them how to understand them, too."

Wildwood Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy novels. ">: 卡尔森和丈夫，科林，合作原始丛林》是一系列儿童幻想小说。

: “那小子为中心的语言是这样一个抽象的，模糊的东西。我怀疑，可以这样形容真的存在什么。但我确实采取了很多线索从我身边的孩子。我注意到他们看世界的方式，怎么样they play and talk and manage their relationships, and what they respond to in books. I compare it to my own adult experience. I’m always taking notes."

Outside Over There from when I was a kid—I just remember rediscovering it in my basement as a teenager. The books that I remember are chapter books and novels: The Chronicles of Narnia, books about horses like Misty of Chincoteague and Black Beauty, those Madeline L’Engle books. Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the Narnia books have inspired me a lot as an adult." ">: “古怪的，我不记得了图画书，我爱我小的时候，我甚至不记得在那里外面从当我还是个孩子，我只记得在我的地下室作为少年重新发现它。我记得有一章书和小说的书：《纳尼亚传奇》，关于马的书籍Chincoteague的雾气和《黑骏马》，那些马德琳L'恩格尔图书。Pauline Baynes的纳尼亚书籍的插图已经激励了我的成年人。“

: “我已经出版了两本书是我写的，我已经更加有十分之一在十月十二出来一起九岁的插画家。”

Zoetrope: All Story, which Carson designed and illustrated. ">: 秋季2018发行的副本西洋镜：所有的故事，哪个卡森设计和说明了。

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, did very well and certainly felt like a big break."">: “我很幸运。我画的第一本书，神秘的本尼迪克社会通过特伦顿·李·斯图尔特，做的非常好，当然感觉就像一个大的突破。”

: "We met in college, over 20 years ago, and have been collaborating on things as long. Having kids changed the way we work, of course. Our days are a lot more structured now and we’re more precious with our studio time. Our kids inhibit our work and they also inspire our work. They help us edit things and give us feedback. It’s hard to tell where work ends and family starts around here sometimes. Fortunately I think we’re pretty good collaborators, Colin and I, especially after all of these years. We still have the occasional fight about a creative difference or insensitively relayed bit of criticism. We’re each a huge fan and brutal critic of the other. So that’s an interesting dynamic in a marriage. Or maybe that’s exactly the dynamic of most marriages? I don’t know. But there’s a lot of love and support and mutual admiration and common obsessions, so it works out."

People by Blexbolex or Cars, Trucks, and Things That Go by Richard Scarry—books that start with art, with joyfully, beautifully, ecstatically made illustrations, and build a story around it. This approach made a lot more sense to me. So, I began with subject matter that I knew I’d have a good time painting: homes. I love to paint houses and environments. And I loved the idea that you could fill these homes with details that would help kids guess at their inhabitants. I wanted to make a book that felt interactive and full of small clues to be discovered and speculated about. I wanted to make a book that suggested a lot of things and asked a lot of questions, but ultimately required kids to provide their own stories."">: "I had been trying to write a picture book for a long time, but I didn’t like any of the ideas I’d come up with. I’ve been collecting and studying picture books since I was a kid, and the prospect of writing my own was daunting. I’d have a story idea and I’d overthink it into oblivion. At some point it occurred to me to start with the illustrations, instead. I thought of books like人们by blexbolex或者汽车，卡车和去的东西由Richard Scarry-Books从艺术开始，快乐，精美，狂喜，插图，并在它周围建立一个故事。这种方法对我来说更有意义。所以，我开始有主题，我知道我会有一个美好的时光绘画：家园。我喜欢画房子和环境。我喜欢你可以用这些家庭填充这些家庭，这些家庭可以帮助孩子们读过他们的居民。我想制作一本感觉互动和充满少数线索的书，并猜出。我想制作一本书，提出了很多东西，并问了很多问题，但最终需要孩子提供自己的故事。“

The Shortest Day. It’s a poem about the winter solstice by Susan Cooper. The text is gorgeous and I feel good about the illustrations. It has these sweeping, atmospheric landscapes that I didn’t initially know how to paint. It took forever to figure out how to illustrate it. I learned a lot."">: “十月出来的书被称为最短的一天．这是一首关于冬至的诗，作者是苏珊·库珀。文字是华丽的，我感觉良好的插图。这幅画中有我一开始不知道如何画出的宏大而大气的风景画。我花了很长时间才想出如何解释它。我学到了很多。”

LEGO Ninjago. So, I try to write books that are fun to read for everyone involved. I also try to make books that a kid might understand and love more readily than an adult, but that I hope an adult might come to love through reading it to a kid. I’ve had some experiences with books like this—where I didn’t get it at first, but one of my kids did, and their perspective taught me to open my mind a little. That’s a magical thing when it happens, and definitely something I’m thinking about when I make books." ">: "I just hope everyone has a nice time reading my books. Ideally, it’s an interactive experience and a dynamic one—something that changes a little bit with each reading. I don’t think much about what people gain by reading books, but I definitely have adults in mind when I write them. Kids and adults read books together, so I don’t think a good picture book is one that an adult can’t find any value in. And, as a mom, I know the very special hell that is reading a book you hate six times in one day—hey,乐高忍者．所以，我试着写乐趣阅读的书籍，以便阅读每个人。我也试图让孩子们可能比成年人更容易理解和热爱，但我希望成年人能够通过阅读孩子来爱。我有一些像这样的书的经历 - 我一开始就没有得到它，但我的一个孩子做了，他们的观点教会了我敞开心扉。当它发生时，这是一个神奇的事情，当我拿书时，我肯定会想到的事情。“

In the Half Room. I wrote it, though the general idea was supplied by my younger kid. I don’t want to say much about it yet. But I like it! It’s pretty weird." ">: “我暂时致力于呼唤的照片在半屋．我写了它，尽管我的年轻孩子提供了一般的想法。我还不想说这么多。但我喜欢它！这很奇怪。“

: "Read a lot of books for kids. Start a collection of them. Figure out what you love about your favorites and why. Read them to both yourself and to actual children—those are different experiences and they’re both important. If you want to be an illustrator, draw every day. Ideally, you’re the kind of person who does this automatically, compulsively even. If you aren’t, develop an art practice and take it seriously. Always prioritize making books and art that is meaningful to you over making money. Take into account that keeping your overhead low—low rent, low tuition and loans, low monthly spending—will make this easier."

: “我出生于1975年，在1975年出生于巴马父母，并在纽约市的郊区筹集。我去了Missoula大学，因为我在杂志中看到了蒙大拿州蒙大拿州的照片，并且觉得蒙大拿州蒙大拿州深受绘制的蒙大拿州cheap and easy to get into. I graduated with a BFA in Painting from the University of Montana in 1998. UM didn’t offer an illustration major and this seemed like the next best thing. After college, I moved around a lot and worked as a cocktail waitress or a bartender in Minneapolis, Vermont, San Francisco, and Portland, which is where I’ve been since 2001. In my late twenties, I finally managed to quit the service industry and I figured out a way to support myself as a freelance illustrator. I’ve been doing that ever since."

: “我做过保姆，做过升降椅操作员，卖过热狗，做过鸡尾酒女招待，做过艺术家模特，做过酒保，做过接待员，等等。”

: "I’m based in an unincorporated suburban 'hamlet' about a half hour south of Portland, Oregon. I love where I live: on a small farm, with a big barn, lots of gardens, a dreamy studio, some farm animals, climbing trees, and spectacular sunsets. I’m still getting my bearings here—in this fairly wealthy, conservative suburb. It feels like the place where I grew up and never fit in, and it’s a continuous marvel to me that I found my way to the only part of Oregon that reminds me of Westchester County, New York. But maybe it’s good that I’m here and have this chance to rethink old biases. That can never hurt. And of course, Portland is a terrific city. A nice one to be close to despite all of its crazy growth and transformation over the past twenty years. It has all the good stuff: great art, nature, fancy food, and old friends who I love."

Timberline Lodge and St. Jack for eating, Nationale and the Portland Art Museum for art, Forest Park for forest bathing in the city, Breitenbush Hot Springs for a quintessentially Oregon good time."">: "Off the clock, I am almost always on my farm—these days, specifically in my garden. You might also find me at the unspectacular strip mall poké place that Colin and I recently discovered near our house. I don’t get out much. But there are definitely places I love and recommend: the bar at山林小屋和圣杰克吃,国家和波特兰艺术博物馆为艺术,森林公园在城市里进行森林浴，Breitenbush温泉对于一个典型的俄勒冈州的好时光。“

: “我的小儿子米洛(Milo)今年6岁，他喜欢画画、忍者、爬树、游泳，还喜欢和朋友们在一起。我的大孩子汉克13岁了，他很喜欢读书。他从不不读书，他什么都读:特里·普拉切特、卡尔·荣格、萨拉·沃厄尔、约瑟夫·坎贝尔、斯蒂芬·金，还有《圣经》。他特别痴迷于探路者的书。这是像龙与地下城一样的角色扮演游戏。或者是《龙与地下城》的版本?我不知道，这太逊了。他还喜欢阴谋论、神秘生物、x战警和无神论。”

: 卡森和她的孩子们。

: "Yes, we’re all super open about it, including Hank, who is a proud autist. There are ways that having an autistic kid has impacted my work—many of them wonderful—but I’m leery to talk about my teenage kid in such a public way. I thought less of it when he was little. I’m more protective of his privacy now."