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| Elise Primavera | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 West Long Beach, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Illustrator/Author |
| Nationality | American |
Elise Primavera is best known as a writer and illustrator of children's books.
Her published career started in the early 1980's but her illustrations for Raising Dragons (Silver Whistle, 1998) only received a Christopher Award in 1999. In that same year she received the Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature from the Bank Street College of Education and an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. Newsweek, Sesame Street Parent's magazine and Smithsonian Magazine all selected Raising Dragons as one of the best books of 1998.
Her best-selling book to date is Auntie Claus with nearly half a million copies.
In 2004, she provided the art for the Holiday Program at the White House.
In 2006, Primavera wrote and illustrated her first novel, The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls (HarperCollins).
Elise Primavera was born in West Long Beach, New Jersey in 1955. She studied at The Art Student’s League and The National Academy School of Fine Arts - both in New York City. Her bachelor of fine arts degree was awarded by Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elise Primavera currently resides in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.
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References
- "Meet the Author/Illustrator Elise Primavera". Education Place. Houghton Mifflin Reading. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
As a young child, Elise Primavera used to get in trouble for drawing on her clothes. She began to get serious about art during the summer after fifth grade. That summer, to get over an illness, she had to stay in bed. She passed the time by working through some learn-to-draw books. Soon, though, she was out of bed and back to her first love — riding horses. Her goal was to ride in the Olympics.
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Pastels are light, so it's hard to get dark, rich colors." Sometimes, Primavera goes back and re-draws, and then layers with chalk and pastels. While this technique seems time-consuming, Primavera insists that it's a much faster method for her than oil painting. "Some people have a technique in oil painting that's very fast for them, but I like this method because I like to draw, I like the feeling in my hand, the hardness of it that only comes from drawing. For me, painting can be frustrating because I feel removed from it. This method is a much easier transition from drawing to coloring." Primavera also says that this is not an unusual technique, and that there is a group of New York artists who use this in their work.
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