Hospitality
Patricia Keeler has been a member of SCBWI since 1993. Patricia Keeler is a full-time writer and illustrator yet still finds time to prepare coffee and cookies for our Tuesday Professional Series. Patricia and Francis are the warm welcome to many illustrators at the Illustrators Conference in New York.
Patricia Keeler is author and illustrator of Drumbeat in Our Feet (Bebop Books/Lee & Low Books, 2005):
"Also, while developing the sketches for Drumbeat I looked at lots of books on dance, but my favorite artist of dancers is Edgar Degas. The illustration on the page of 'Spirits and Ancestors' is my nod to him. I work mainly in watercolors, although there is a little colored pencil here and a little Titanium white there."
"Using a digital camera, I photographed the dancers practicing on Saturdays and performing. Many times I gave my camera to one of the dancers and let them take all the pictures they wanted. (I made CDs of the best photographs of 2004 and gave copies out to the dancers.) ... Each Saturday evening I would download a couple hundred photographs. Then I started a photo file for each page in the book and put photographs related to the subject there. Then I would print out photos, trace them, and cut and paste a page together. The image of the stage came from photographs I took of a ship. The ship The Frying Pan is docked at Pier 23. Batoto Yetu's manager, Sarah Young, performed a modern dance with her dance troupe on the ship. As I stood on a catwalk over the cargo hold and watched Sarah dance below me, I noticed what an interesting shape the stage (cargo hold) had. Below me were ramps and levels. Above me was the curved ceiling of the top of the ship. I used the cargo hold of The Frying Pan to develop the stage for the dance performance in Drumbeat."
Her list of books include:
Car Wash, author, illustrator (Bebop Books/Lee & Low Books, 2004)
A Huge Hog Is a Big Pig, cophotographer (Greenwillow/ HarperCollins, 2002), which was a selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club of 2002 as well as a selection of the Junior Library Guild
Unraveling Fibers, coauthor/cophotographer/illustrator (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon and Schuster, 1995), which was pick of the Lists from American Bookseller and Bank Street Children's Books of the Year in 1995
How Hound Became Happy, author (Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, 1999)
Looking Inside, coauthor/illustrator (Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, 1999)
Brain Food, illustrator (Zephyr Press, 1997)
Our Oceans, illustrator (Millbrook Press, 1995)
Ecology A to Z, illustrator (Dillon Press/Simon and Schuster, 1994)
Changing Our World, illustrator (Zephyr Press, 1993)
Secrets of the Universe, illustrator (Atheneum/Macmillan, 1987)
Patricia earned a Bachelor of Arts, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, June 1973 and a Masters of Art Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, December 1981. In addition to being a member of the Metro NY Steering Committee, she is a member of Children's Book Illustrator Group (CBIG) and New Jersey Region of SCBWI. Patricia is married to Francis McCall, and enjoys time with her stepdaughter Ida McCall.
PO Box 1475
New York, NY 10276-1475
212 545-3719
scbwi_metrony@yahoo.com
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