About Me - Influences - Caroline Jones McKay - Artwork for children's publishing and greeting card markets

My favorite painters:

Any of the Impressionists, but especially Monet
Masaccio
Raphael
Georgia O'Keefe
Vermeer
Rene Magritte
Gustav Klimt
Caravaggio
Maxfield Parrish

My favorite children's book illustrators:

Mary GrandPré (yes, I knew her work before Harry Potter!)
Holly Hobbie
Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Chris Van Allsburg
Leo and Diane Dillon
Jessie Wilcox Smith
Beatrix Potter
Trina Schart Hyman
William Joyce
Carter Goodrich
Eric Carle

Books on my shelf:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My Antonia, or anything else by Willa Cather
e. e. cummings -- Complete Poems 1904-1962
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Wrinkle in Time and its series by Madeleine L'Engle
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
Marguerite de Angeli's Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg
The Bridge to Terabithia or anything else by Katherine Paterson
Goodnight Moon by Margeret Wise Brown
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster


My favorite painters: Any of the Impressionists, but especially Monet Masaccio Raphael Georgia O'Keefe Vermeer Rene Magritte Gustav Klimt Caravaggio Maxfield Parrish My favorite children's book illustrators: Mary GrandPré (yes, I knew her work before Harry Potter!) Holly Hobbie Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher Chris Van Allsburg Leo and Diane Dillon Jessie Wilcox Smith Beatrix Potter Trina Schart Hyman William Joyce Carter Goodrich Eric Carle Books on my shelf: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron The Right to Write by Julia Cameron To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee My Antonia, or anything else by Willa Cather e. e. cummings -- Complete Poems 1904-1962 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Wrinkle in Time and its series by Madeleine L'Engle Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino Watership Down by Richard Adams Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe Marguerite de Angeli's Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg The Bridge to Terabithia or anything else by Katherine Paterson Goodnight Moon by Margeret Wise Brown The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster	Rainbows required all the colors in the box, even brown.
	Even the bird in the tree says “tweet!”
	I was such an eighties kid!
	How I drew Strawberry Shortcake when I was seven years old.
	I was so fascinated with my mom's Kodak Disc camera that I had to make my own.
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