{"id":618,"date":"2011-06-28T23:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-06-28T23:07:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:07:01","slug":"penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>The Guardian<\/em> they have a very cool series in the &#8216;Children&#8217;s Books&#8217; section where various illustrators provide instructions on illustrating for young artists. My favourite is by Oliver Jeffers. Jeffers is an artist and illustrator. We have a few of Jeffers&#8217;s books about the house, including one of our favourites, <em>The Great Paper Caper<\/em>: &#8220;a thrilling tale of mystery, crime, alibis, paper planes and bear who wanted to win&#8221;. I also adore <em>Lost and Found<\/em>: &#8220;What is a boy to do when a PENGUIN turns up at his door? Find out where it came from, of course, and return it. Even if it means rowing to the South Pole&#8221;. I adore this book, which reminds me of the urban legend I&#8217;ve always adored, about a boy who sneaks a penguin home in his backpack after befriending it at the local zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffers&#8217;s illustrations are the kind you fall in love with; they seem simple, but are also wonderfully witty and emotionally true. Somehow, he captures through gesture and posture the depths of characters and their relationships with each other. In his &#8216;How To&#8217; over at <em>The Guardian<\/em> he provides a twelve-step <del>program<\/del> set of instructions for drawing a penguin that are so easy to follow, and so witty and charming in their own right, that you can enjoy them on your own (that is, without the supervision of a child), or use them to help someone you know paint their very own Perfect P. Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/gallery\/2011\/jun\/27\/how-to-draw-penguins-oliver-jeffers#\/?picture=375870801&amp;index=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2011\/6\/17\/1308309217113\/Oliver-Jeffers-How-to-dra-001.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just to prove that the instructions are simple to follow and produce great results, even for little folk, I sent the link to my (grand)daughter, who had a go, and wallah! Penguin painting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.nabourke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aanikapenguin.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-619\" title=\"Aanika's penguin\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.nabourke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aanikapenguin-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Penguin (after Oliver Jeffers)&#39; by Aanika <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Guardian they have a very cool series in the &#8216;Children&#8217;s Books&#8217; section where various illustrators provide instructions on illustrating for young artists. My favourite is by Oliver Jeffers. Jeffers is an artist and illustrator. We have a few of Jeffers&#8217;s books about the house, including one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[167,288],"tags":[366,367,368,369,370,371,372],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4LH1G-penguins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}