Painting Impossibilities With Oliver Jeffers

First Draft Episode #276: Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers is a visual artist, illustrator of The Day the
Crayons Quit, and author and illustrator of How to Catch a Star,
The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are talks about his newest
picture book, What We’ll Build.


This episode is brought to you by Everything I Thought I Knew, by
Shannon Takoaka, out from Candlewick Press October 13, 2020.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Sam Winston, who co-authored A Child of Books with Oliver, is
a fine artist interested in language




Artist Michael Sowa




Artist Mark Tansey




Colette, the “trendiest store in the world”




The essay I couldn’t name was “It’s time to build,” a viral
post written by venture capitalist Marc Andreesen




Tom Rivett-Carnac’s TED Talk, “How to Shift Your Mindset and
Change Your Future”




 


 




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