![]() "The art tells its own story," Jennifer Brabander observed in Horn Book, adding that Bean's work has "an old-fashioned sensibility" reminiscent of Gag and Burton. Booklist reviewer Carolyn Phelan called Bean's work in the latter "often graceful and always appealing," and School Library Journal contributor Carole Phillips likewise observed that Bean's drawings for Mokie and Bik "capture the exuberant spirit of the and splendidly match their energetic adventures."īean also produced artwork for Lauren Thompson's picture book The Apple Pie That Papa Baked, a clever reworking of "The House That Jack Built." Bean's illustrations, in tones of gold, red, cream, and black, impressed many critics. His work included drawings for a flip-book incorporated in writer Lynne Jonell's novel Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, as well as crosshatch-style illustrations for Wendy Orr's chapter book Mokie and Bik. In 2007, Bean's illustrations appeared in four separate children's books, including one he had also authored. One of his graduate projects developed into his first picture book, and by the time he received his master's degree in 2005, Bean was getting steady work as an illustrator for magazines, including Cricket. Attending graduate school in New York City, Bean focused on children's-book illustration and developed a portfolio to show to publishers. During the day, he helped transform artworks-sometimes his own-into cross-stitch patterns, while at night he worked on his own illustrations. As a senior, he wrote an essay exploring form in artworks from ancient Greece to modern times.Īfter graduating with a degree in fine arts illustration from Pennsylvania Messiah College, Bean worked as staff artist for a company that created craft and paint-by-number patterns. During high school, Bean took weekly drawing classes with Myron Barnstone of Barnstone Studios, where he studied basic techniques, practiced them over and over, and explored how great artists incorporated them into their works. "I grew up with my mom reading me Virginia Lee Burton books and later I discovered Wanda Gag," he told Shannon Maughan in Publishers Weekly, referring to the author-illustrators of the childhood classics Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Millions of Cats respectively. ![]() He had an interest in art and illustrated books from a young age. ![]() Jonathan Bean grew up in Pennsylvania, the second of four children who were all homeschooled by their parents. Wendy Orr, Mokie and Bik Go to Sea, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2008. Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2008. Lauren Thompson, The Apple Pie That Papa Baked, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2007. Wendy Orr, Mokie and Bik, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2007. Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2007. ![]() Our House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2009. Writings SELF-ILLUSTRATEDĪt Night, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2007. Awards, Honorsīoston Globe/Horn Book Award for best picture book, 2008, and Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book designation, Cooperative Children's Book Center, both 2008, both for At Night Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, New York Public Library/Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, 2008, for The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson. Messiah College, Grantham, PA, adjunct instructor in art, 2008. Dimensions, Reading, PA, staff artist illustrator for New York Times and Cricket magazine. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, bird watching, landscape drawing. Education: Messiah College (PA), B.A., 2001 School of Visual Arts ( New York, NY), M.F.A., 2005.
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