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Liz

Liz Jones Books

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My Interests

drawing, writing, graphic design, Illustration Friday, graphic novels, mid-grade fiction,picture books, good animation, parodies, illustrating for kids, patterns, metaphors, analogies, complexity, surrealism, impressionism,expressionism, celtic knotwork, paisley, light and its variations, trees, oceans, stars, living things of all kinds, chocolate, coffee, almond mele pastries, nutella, good cheese, homemade bread, gardening, lambing, shearing, white water kayaking, bodysurfing, hiking, backpacking, skating,spinning, weaving, quilting, dyeing, playing with my kids, cats, dogs, rabbits, pretty much anything with fur feathers or scales.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists, musicians, librarians, readers and kid lit types.

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Music:

playing fiddle, cello, guitar, mandolin & bass; oldtime, irish, cajun, and cape breton music, jazz, brazilian jazz, classical music romantics to moderns, gregorian chant and medieval harmonies, blues standards, Bela Fleck, Natalie MacMaster, Stephane Grappelli, Dwight Diller, Gillian Welch, John Prine, Levon Helm, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Rene Marie, Etta James, Shirley Horn, Jaco Pastorius, John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Thelonius Monk, Professor Longhair, Dave Carter, Tracy Grammer, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Chris Thomson King, RL Burnside, Grateful Dead, Dawg, King Crimson, Adrian Belew and the Bears, Neil Young, CSN, Russian Baritones, Carmina Burana, Sergei Prokofiev, Ravel, Beethoven, Rachmoninoff, Mussorsky-Leibowitz, Antonin Borodin, and many, many more...

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Mirrormask, Casablanca, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Howl's Moving Castle, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Brazil, Monty Python, Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, Wizards, The Thief and the Cobbler, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Neverending Story, Alice in Wonderland(in any incarnation), Labyrinth, The Wizard of Oz, The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird, Moulin Rouge, Fantasia, Shrek, Willy Wonka, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda,and and and...

Television:

Aint got no. I live online.

Books:

How about authors: C.S.Lewis, George MacDonald, Shaun Tan, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Sterling, Philip K Dick, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Jules Verne, H.G.Wells, Lewis Carroll, Susan Cooper, Brothers Grimm (All fairy tales, really), Toni Morrison, Ivars Peterson, Alexander Solzynitsen, Steven King, JRR Tolkien, Mark Helprin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Douglas Hofstaeder, Viktor Frankl, Mark Twain, Annie Dillard, Ranier Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, ee cummings, Art Spiegelman, Dave McKean, Justine Robson, Carl Sandburg, Samuel Delaney, Jorge Luis Borges, Antoine de Saint-Exupery... For general types of literature-- folktales, mythology and religious tales, and scientific nonfiction, esp. astronomy,astrophysics,particle physics, genetics, polymer chemistry and materials science innovations, biology.

Heroes:

Ordinary people who do all the things that are unpleasant, but need to be done. People who care and respond as if it were reflex, without thinking about it too hard first. And there are too many of those for me to name here.

My Blog

Lookie!! Black tees!

.Here it is-- won't let me post an image...grrrr.I was just going to put this on a poster. And I did, but... well, they have black tees now at cafepress, and I just thought this was way cool. Here's t...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:31:00 PST

Aaargh! And Click to see pics

I'm posting a link to the motherlode of my images online, because I have found it increasingly difficult to get images to appear on this blogsite.So if you like what you've seen on my page and want to...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:38:00 PST

Illustration Friday - Safe

It's good to have a friend with you when you're going someplace new! Don't worry, teddy.I'm sure you'll like kindergarten.                &n...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:33:00 PST

Illustration Friday - Run

Dawn is creeping at the window, even though the sun is still hidden behind the trees. All her clothes are laid out at the foot of the bed, her lunch is packed and sitting in the fridge, and her new cr...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:24:00 PST

Illustration Friday - Match

Here's a pair of matches slipping out for a night on the town. They look like a good match to me!                     &n...
Posted by Liz on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:06:00 PST

Illustration Friday -Play

The Oldest Man of AllExcerpt from The Golden Key, by George MacDonaldThe next moment she descried, in a corner of the cave, a little naked child sitting on the moss. He was playing with balls of vario...
Posted by Liz on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:35:00 PST

Illustration Friday - Play

We'll dance up the hill To welcome the sun And play on the shore  Till our dreams are all spun We'll dance up and over  As the sun's sinking low And sleep neath the hill&...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:11:00 PST

Illustration Friday-- Capture

Anyone who's been reading my blog this summer will be unsurprised at my choice for this topic!                      ...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

Illustration Friday-- Clean

                                          Gra...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:45:00 PST

Illustration Friday--opposites

Opposites are basically two sides of the same concept-- take one without the other, and you remove the meaning.  As I worked on this entry,I kept thinking of the blog entry before it. What do you...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:20:00 PST