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You’re Invited to Illustrate a Banjo Pig

The ~~world’s best~~ artist Wayne Andreason Paints “Banjo Pig”.

Water color, banjo playing pig ~wayne andreason

I painted this banjo playing pig awhile ago as it was all the rave. Mine is a simple little illustration that took about two hours. I drew the little pig with pencil, water colored and scribbled all over it with black ink once it was dry. it This is the one that I did and below I have added one that Will Terry did and another the ~~world famous~~ truck driver, James Freeman.

It all started with Guy Francis and Stacy Curtis

My good friend Guy Francis is one of the ~~most~~ talented artists in the world. And he is a lot of fun. He and our friend Stacy Curtis, another talented artist in the world, started a little duel. They started illustrating the Dueling Banjo Pigs. It didn’t take long before a lot of the other talented artists in the world wanted to join in. And that is what happened, they joined in and now there is an an going blog that is dedicated to the Duel with over 700 illustrations of pigs and banjos. And since it is on going, I am inviting you, yeah you, to join in on all the fun. So get your pig, and your banjo,posted on the ~~famous~~ Dueling Banjo Pigs blog.

Join in With your illustration of a banjo pig

It started out with a duel between friends. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator, Stacy Curtis, to a duel of banjo playing pigs. Now, other illustrators have joined the fun with banjo pigs of their own! We have more than 700 banjo pigs from countries all over the world!

Everyone is invited to join the duel!

Feel free to join in the fun, just illustrate your pig, don’t forget the banjo, and E-mail it to Stacy or Guy and they;ll post it on the blog, along with a link to your site or blog.

See what others have done at the Dueling Banjo Pigs blog.

Ok, I was a reluctant hold out to participate in Guy Francis and Stacy Curtis’s banjo pig deal. I mean cmon, what a rediculous idea right? Everyone knows pigs are better at playing guitar than banjo. If you haven’t already checked out their banjo pigs and all of the participating illustrators I say – why start now? ~Will Terry

Banjo Pig by one of our beginners

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Artist Road Trip to Chicago

This was awhile back but I hope you’re jealous

So..’m not going to apologize for taking time out of my busy life and driving off to Chicago with two of my good friends. – I’ve been busy – but hey, the guys need a road trip once in awhile. Poor Wayne stayed home there just wasn’t room for the little guy.

Famous children’s book author Rick Walton, the man who wrote Gary’s place, Illustrator Guy Francis, and I drove to the American Library Association Conference back there. We went to promote ourselves to librarians since they recommend books for awards and consumers. It’s an amazing conference/Expo – anything and everything that is used in a library, and a lot of stuff that is not, is being pitched, sold, recommended, hucked, and pushed. From furniture to books it’s all there – and so were we.

We stayed with Eric Rohmann and Candy Fleming in the suburbs the first night – thanks guys for being such wonderful hosts – they invited publicists, editors, authors, librarians, and a few illustrators to a party – Rick gave schmoozing demos.

Rick put Eric’s Caldecott to good use – it was just collecting dust after all.

The view from our hotel – thank you Albert Whitman for putting us up.

We found Laura Seeger signing her books. She is awesome!

My cat allergy wasn’t that bad in Chicago.

Guy finally found a hat that fit.

Rick was almost arrested for public intoxication – we convinced the authorities he was writting a book about poles – a sequel to Holes.

I got to sign in the Albert Whitman booth.

We found Kristyn’s book and took a really stupid picture with it – I don’t really know what the purpose was other than to look really stupid – sorry Kristyn – we un-cooled your cool book. But hey, we pulled off stupid.