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CHOICES…..

Posted on December 4, 2019 by catugeau

“OMG! Too funny!” Choices sometimes come with funny consequences, and this pic I’ve been dying to share! It’s our fearless leader, Christy Tugeau Ewers, while giving an online-crit to the SCBWI Nebraska Group and laughing at something she said….I just … Continue reading →

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Invite the viewer INTO your art!

Posted on June 18, 2019 by catugeau

I just finished listening with such delight my daughter’s recent Nebraska SCBWI webinar !  She critiqued 15 brave artists’ work live … one of the best all over learning opportunities ever for everyone listening! I remember when (before internet etc.) … Continue reading →

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“You Do NOT need an Agent….”

Posted on June 4, 2019 by catugeau

  Burris Well isn’t this Agent CAT looking smug!?  And what is with that title? At the beginning of May, Christy and I attended the Springfield, MA NESCBWI Spring conference where we did MANY portfolio reviews and duel presented a … Continue reading →

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Spring tips !

Posted on May 17, 2019 by catugeau

WELL WELL….it looks like maybe Spring might be actually sprung here in CT finally.  Every year…. why am I still surprised each year!!  I feel like I’ve  crawled out from under a ‘rock’ and back in the creative swing! How … Continue reading →

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Bob Staake retreat…from Dave Szalay!

Posted on April 19, 2018 by catugeau

A peaceful fun sketch done recently by our artist Dave Szalay of the Norman Rockwell Home and studio in Burlington VT while he was attending a very special Bob Staake retreat: The Art and World of The Children’s Picture Book. … Continue reading →

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DITTIES…the Way To Go?

Posted on February 28, 2018 by catugeau

I just had to write today about the great obsession..I mean habit… of doing perhaps even daily “ditties!”  or that’s what I love to call them.  Little ‘somethings’….a sketch, or quick thought visually.  They can be from life as you … Continue reading →

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BIG START TO A NEW YEAR!….

Posted on January 4, 2018 by catugeau

HAPPY 2018 everyone!  I’m writing this while being snow bound in CT by a whipping Nor’Easter blizzard today that has hit most of the East Coast! …it does have a way of stopping us in our tracks!  But it’s a … Continue reading →

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Portfolio Prep for Conferences…Finding YOU!

Posted on February 3, 2017 by catugeau

It is that time of year again!  After you review your year, (see last Post) you want to strut a new, confident foot out there into the industry! And just in time, there is the SCBWI NYC Mid Winter Conference…just waiting … Continue reading →

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Two SCBWI fun days!

Posted on September 19, 2016 by catugeau

This weekend I did the second of two SCBWI presentations I’d offered to do for subgroups of the Mid Atlantic Group.  And what fun I had!  The weekend before I was with the lovely group of talented, motivated writers and … Continue reading →

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Martha Aviles’ amazing gift….

Posted on September 15, 2016 by catugeau

Martha Aviles and I met at the 1999 LA SCBWI conference and began working together in my ‘CAT’ Agency in 2000.  I was delighted by her artwork then, and after sixteen years am still delighted with it!  (see on website http://www.catugeau.com … Continue reading →

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