stellarbaby.com: liza ferneyhough, illustrator & designer https://stellarbaby.com Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:41:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.1 APALA Honor https://stellarbaby.com/2023/01/apala-honor/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:17:00 +0000 https://stellarbaby.com/?p=3950

On Monday at the ALA Youth Media Awards, NANA, NENEK & NINA was announced as the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor title! I’m in kind of a daze, so I will quote Nina: “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!!”

Thanks so much to the very kind librarians of the APALA picture book jury and the ALA; editor Dana Chidiac, my agent Kurestin Armada, and the team at Dial / Penguin Kids–especially Cerise Steel and Rosie Ahmed.

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Happy New Year https://stellarbaby.com/2023/01/happy-new-year/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 05:33:00 +0000 https://stellarbaby.com/?p=3938

Objects as memories! Asian stuff on Lunar New Year weekend eve.
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PW Flying Starts https://stellarbaby.com/2023/01/pw-flying-starts/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 06:54:00 +0000 https://stellarbaby.com/?p=3940
Publisher’s Weekly included me in their 2022 Flying Starts, a special feature about debut children’s authors 😮 The journalist I talked to knew Trina Schart Hyman 😮 It’s all very thrilling ❗❗😮❗❗


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NINA at The Original Art! https://stellarbaby.com/2022/09/nina-at-the-original-art/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:23:00 +0000 https://stellarbaby.com/?p=3904

Fab news, NANA, NENEK & NINA was selected to be in the Society of Illustrators 2022 Original Art show! Thanks so much to the Society and the show jury, and an excited high-five to team NINA–Dana Chidiac, Cerise Steel, Rosie Ahmed; all at Dial; my agent Kurestin Armada at Root Literary; and my wise critique group, Diana Toledano, Isabella Kung, and Kerri Mcdermott. Finally, a big congrats to everyone else who’ll be in the show too–if their timeline was the same as mine, it means we all held it together during the first wobbly pandemic year to make these books. Oof. I’m going to try to go to New York for the reception to either celebrate or commiserate about trembly lonely pandemic book illustrating. Please say hi if you see me lurking by the snack table. 🤓
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I made a stop at the Society building once ages ago and it’s wild to think I’ll get to put a painting up there with so many amazing illustrators. Also, I heard that the show was originally started by Dilys Evans, who worked with Trina Schart Hyman (a foundational illustration crush of mine) on Cricket. Eek!

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NINA Books Inc Event https://stellarbaby.com/2022/07/nina-books-inc-event/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:46:00 +0000 https://stellarbaby.com/?p=3828

🧳 Join me for a storytime and booksigning on release day to celebrate!
Tuesday 8/9 at 4pm, Books Inc. Laurel Village, 3515 California St, San Francisco
🧳 More about NANA, NENEK & NINA

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cover reveal https://stellarbaby.com/2022/03/cover-reveal/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:05:34 +0000 http://stellarbaby.com/?p=3710

So thrilled to let you know that NANA, NENEK & NINA will be out from Dial Books for Young Readers on August 9, 2022!

👵🌳🤸‍♀️🌴👵

🧳Pre-order here or go to your very fine local independent bookseller
🧳How the cover came together

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(somewhat) hourly comics day 2022 https://stellarbaby.com/2022/02/somewhat-hourly-comics-day-2022/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:04:56 +0000 http://stellarbaby.com/?p=3662 for Hourly Comics Day 2022.
2021 | 2020 | 2019






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hello 2022 https://stellarbaby.com/2022/01/hello-2022/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 06:47:40 +0000 http://stellarbaby.com/?p=3690 In 2021, I did a whole bunch of illustrations and worked with the very nice team at Dial to turn them into a real picture book–NANA, NENEK & NINA, which will be out next year! Then I curled up into a snail shell because social media seemed like a lot. In 2022, I’ll work on emerging. But slowly! 🐌
Happy new year to you (and hello again)
🎉😊🎉

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almost there! https://stellarbaby.com/2021/06/almost-there/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:46:53 +0000 http://stellarbaby.com/?p=3686

Outlining individual peas on my last painting 36 hours before my final book deadline. Sometimes I really question my style choices.🔍😆

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work nest https://stellarbaby.com/2021/05/work-nest/ Wed, 26 May 2021 06:43:05 +0000 http://stellarbaby.com/?p=3683

I have added another paint palette tray to the right flank of my work nest, for a total of four. It’s starting to feel like I’m sitting in the middle of Nick Andopolis’ drum kit!
🎨🎨🤘😁🎨🎨

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