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Edwin Fotheringham

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Edwin Fotheringham is an award-winning freelance illustrator of a wide variety of works including album covers, illustrations in top national magazines, and artwork for children’s books.  Ed, as he prefers to be called, grew up in Sydney, Australia, and moved to the U.S. to attend art school at the University of Washington.  He continues to live in Seattle, Washington where he also teaches illustration at Cornish College of the Arts.  Ed and Barbara have been successful book collaborators for many years, creating one stellar biography after another. On his website, he says he continues to “enjoy solving visual problems with blotty lines.”

Barbara's Process

Watch the Interview Video to learn about the author’s and illustrator’s research and composing processes:​​
  • Ed’s Research Process: Bringing a sense of whimsy and uniqueness to historic illustrations  [7:00]
    • Representing the interior of the White House [9:10]
    • Deciding how to represent historic information in visually interesting ways [13:04]
  • Drawing upon non-print artifacts and resources in the research process [16:00]
    • The FDR Library’s Digital Collection and its photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt [16:40]
    • Traveling to do research [17:48]
    • Following a feeling to create a visual metaphor [21:30-27:30]
  • Creating a flash draft (a quick draft) to get a sense of the whole [22:50]
  • The role of an editor and art director in the creative process [28:10]
  • Visual motifs [40:55]
  • Digital art making with an iPad [44:04]

Ed's Books

Eleanor Makes Her Mark Cover
A Home for Mr. Emerson Cover
What to Do About Alice? Cover
Those Rebels, John and Tom Cover
The Extraordinary Mark Twain Cover
Tony Baloney Cover

Other Interviews and Resources about Edwin

  • Mr. Illustrator (Seattle Times)
  • Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Edwin Fotheringham
  • Punk Rock to Politics (Please Kill Me)
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  • About Our Work
    • Principles & Framework
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    • Eleanor Makes Her Mark
    • Make Meatballs Sing
    • Otis and Will Discover the Deep
    • Queen of Physics
    • Sharuko
    • Soldier for Equality
    • The Cat Man of Aleppo
    • Voice of Freedom
    • What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
    • William Still and His Freedom Stories
  • Chapter Books
    • Almost Astronauts
    • Maritcha
    • She Persisted: Claudette Colvin
  • Authors/Illustrators
    • Chris Barton
    • Tonya Bolden
    • Carole Boston Weatherford
    • Monica Brown
    • Jen Bryant
    • Matthew Burgess
    • Lesa Cline-Ransome
    • Natasha Donovan
    • Edwin Fotheringham
    • Rebecca Huang
    • Barbar Kerley
    • Irene Latham
    • Teresa Robeson
    • Barb Rosenstock
    • Katherine Roy
    • Traci Sorell
    • Tanya Lee Stone
    • Victoria Tentler-Krylov
    • Duncan Tonatiuh
    • Don Tate
  • Collection
  • Stories from the Classroom
    • Teacher Contributors
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