Elizabeth: Gouache is a paint that can be used like watercolor by letting it harden in your pallet, or like oil, using it straight from the tube. It has a very high concentration of pigment which makes the colors it produces quite extraordinary. Bev: Do you have other books that have been published?
Do you illustrate for other authors? Elizabeth: Bernelly and Harriet is my second book, though the first that I both authored and illustrated. My first book was Henrietta, written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author David Mamet.
Bev: How did you come to choose mice as your characters? Do you have other stories to tell about Bernelly & Harriet? Elizabeth: I chose mice for this story, as it was the country mouse and the city mouse fable that I wanted to rewrite.
I draw many other animals though, pigs, bunnies, alligators even people. As to more stories about Bernelly and Harriet I have heard, recently, that they were planning a trip to Paris. It seems that now Harriet needs a new pair of ... more.
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