Foreign Editions

I might have missed a few but by my count Renata has had 25 foreign editions of her books which have been translated into these languages: Catalonian, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Australian (It's 26 foreign editions if you count Australian as a foreign language;-)

Here are the covers:

Waiting for Snow Book Cover

I thought the first post of the year should be celebrating something new –
how about a new book for a new year!

Waiting for Snow is a lovely story written by Marsha Diane Arnold. It's from the same publishing team that brought about The Quiet Book series. As with those stories Renata had super fun creating pictures that add another layer to the storytelling. She also had a lot of fun drawing some new characters including Badger and Possum, she can't wait for readers to meet them. But she'll have to wait a wee bit, the book comes out this November 2016.

"Badger cannot wait one more minute for it to snow. When his friend Hedgehog explains that everything comes in its time, Badger is unconvinced and impatient as ever. But Badger’s friends have a few tricks up their sleeves to try and get the snow’s attention and distract their pal in the meantime. Though in the end Badger sees there’s no trick—only waiting—until at last, it’s time."

Waiting for Snow written by Marsha Diane Arnold and illustrated by Renata Liwska

RENATKA - a web comic episode #1

Happy New Year! We had a quiet (and lovely) holidays at home this year. It gave us time to talk and reminisce. Renata's good at telling stories of her childhood – so good I decided to draw this web comic about her memories of the christmas holidays. It was fun and I am planning to do more.

Waiting for Snow

We don't have to wait for snow here, it snowed last week, and we won't have to wait too long for Renata's next book Waiting For Snow written by Marsha Diane Arnold because she finished it last week too! I have to say I've never seen Renata work quite so hard on a book, she was putting some long (but fun) hours to finish it on time. It's coming out next fall/winter 2016.

Here's a spot from the book featuring one of here new adorable characters.

New Craft Coalition

Renata will be at the New Craft Coalition this weekend featuring her books, drawings, and prints. And hopefully getting more inspiration for our book Crafty Llama.

http://newcraftcoalition.com

Oct 16 - 17 at Festival Hall in Inglewood 1215 10 Ave SE

Eat Sleep PAINT

Renata is part of a group show opening this Thursday Sept 10 at Midtowne Gallery here in Calgary. We named the show Eat Sleep PAINT after one of the artists mentioned the phrase in a twitter post. The name stuck despite the fact that Renata will be showing drawings(!) but Eat Sleep DRAW doesn't sound as good as Eat Sleep PAINT when you shorten it (E.S.D. versus E.S.P.)

This bittersweet drawing is one of the original drawings she will be exhibiting. Thanks to our friend Derek Dennett for curating and including us in this show with the other super illustrators.

E.S.P.

Eat Sleep PAINT / Art by Illustrators

Opening Thursday Sept 10 from 5-8 pm

show runs until Oct 3

Maya Gohill

Mike Kerr

Karen Klassen

Renata Liwska

Midtowne Gallery 

9250 Macleod Trial SE

located within

ITS WORTH FRAMING

from 5 to 8 pm