This is one of the pencil drawings for the upcoming book, The Cabins of Wilsonia
How will the book be organized?
Alphabetically, by street name
What order are you doing the cabin drawings?
Alphabetically, by street name. EXCEPT, when I began in the summer, I did quite a few of the Masonic tract and then quite a few on Fern where I also stayed.
Don’t you get bored just sitting there alone drawing in pencil?
Often Kaweah Kitty is with me. If it is cold out, she squishes underneath the light for warmth and blocks my vision and licks my hand.
But don’t you get bored anyway?
With the wonder of technology, I can listen to the radio or to TED talks on the computer or to Artists Helping Artists marketing broadcasts on the computer or to iTunes on my Bose speakers for the computer or to Iceberg radio on the computer which I learned about from my new friend Colleen. Who can be bored when you have the whole world available through that magic machine?
How will you get all those quotes you need?
I’ll just keep bugging people via email, maybe send out a real letter, and keep drawing cabins in pencil while I wait.
Where will I be able to order a book?
Call me, write me, email me. Check my website. Ask Gus. And, if I figure out how, it will be available through Amazon. Then, if you wait 10 years, you can pay twice as much on eBay!
Who are you, anyway?
I am California artist Jana Botkin, who specializes in pencil drawings of cabins. (Got that, Mr. Google??)
4 Comments
Thank you, Melissa! I emailed you separately to ask about your new job, and I will save the instructions on selling via Amazon. So glad you got the print – it was fun to send it to you. 😎
Hi Jana!
How fun to do this book, the residents of Wilsonia will be thrilled to have such an amazing compilation or art!! You can go to Amazon.com Advantage and set up an account, send them a book, they will TELL you what percentage you get, then they will put it on their website. Then you go to google, yahoo and others and get your book towards the top of their search engines. It CAN be done! Hugs and Love
Melissa
PS
I love the print you sent me!
PSS I have a new job!
Jana, love these interview posts — such a great idea. Also love your cabin pencil drawings. I don’t think they could ever be boring. The detail is amazing. All the best with this project!
Thank you, Cheryl! I got the idea from someone else’s blog but have forgotten who. The detail and contrast is all a pencil drawing has to carry it, so if it isn’t amazing, it will be boring. (No real pressure here. . .) Against the advice of those who know who to “make it” with art, I continue to return to my pencils.
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