Yuyi Morales is on the DT podcast!!
Hellloooo! This week on the DT pod we celebrate Día de los Muertos with special guest children’s book author and illustrator Yuyi Morales! Her might recognize her Caldecott-nominated Viva Frida, or her other award-winning books, including Niño Wrestles the World, Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, and Dreamers.
We spent some time talking about one of my favorite of Yuyi’s characters, Señor Calavera. He’s the trickster skeleton star of two of Yuyi’s books: Just a Minute and Just in Case. He even made an appearance during our interview!
On this special DrawTogether Podcast, Yuyi joins us from her art studio in Veracruz, Mexico for some Day of the Dead drawing, including a fun sugar skull warm-up1 and alter-drawing to celebrate someone we love who has passed.
Yuyi also plays us some original drawing music on her jarana. Grab some paper, pens, colors and press play above. Enjoying the DT Pod? Can you think of someone else who would love it, too? Please share with a friend!
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The GUT’s First Visiting Artist: Maira Kalman!
Ask and ye shall receive! This Sunday, Maira Kalman joins us at the Grown-Ups Table where she answers some of my most pressing drawing/life questions, shares a little about her new book “Women Holding Things”, and gives us an inspiring drawing assignment. We’ll be taking questions from the table, so start thinking what you’d like to ask her, too! If you haven’t joined the Grown-Ups table, subscribe for weekly creative wanderings, explorations and lessons, visiting artists, and drawing assignments - and most of all, a joyful, creative, supportive community of fellow drawers.
Thank you Yuyi for joining us on the pod this week, and producers Liz Scheltens and Arjuna Saeed, and editor Amy Standen for all your hard work to make this podcast so great. And thank YOU, DrawTogether Supporters and GUT members, for making this all possible.
See you next week!
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Big tip of the hat to Lynda Barry for the eyes-closed skull-drawing inspo
Wow! Maira Kalman! Thank you! What time on Sunday?
An interview and images, arriving in your inbox by 10am with a little luck :)
This is probably such a dumb question, but I joined DT because of the wonderful drawing lessons the kids could watch. I love the podcasts, but miss drawing with Wendy. Is the video no longer a part of Draw Together? Thanks so much for clarifying. I just do not know maybe if I'm looking in the wrong place? OR are there no more videos in her cool studio? Thanks so much for understanding!
Hi! There are over 70 DT videos available via substack and YouTube, all for free! Re. new videos: Producing DT videos is a hugely expensive and time consuming endeavor. To do it in a way that doesn't kill me (wendy) we really need a production team and financing. The podcasts are a lighter lift (tho even podcasts still require 2 producers, 1 editor, musicians, and yours truly) Until we find the right partners for the videos, we need to pause on new ones. I hope the 70+ will suffice till then!