1. Kevin Henkes Illustrator and Author

4. A few of Kevin Henkes Books

5. One of Mr. Henkes favorite things to draw is Animals!

6. Sometimes they’re dressed like people.

7. He even makes pictures about insects!

8. Sometimes his pictures are about People

9. This Artwork is about Weather!

10. Here is Mr. Henkes hard at work at his desk.

11. This is how it looks when Mr. Henkes starts SKETCHING (planning) new pictures for a new book He has to think about how big or small it should be.

12. He has to make sure the story and the pictures go together perfectly!

13. His first try a quick gesture drawing on the back of an old piece of paper! Another try to decide what colors he liked best. His final draft, the one he chose to use in his book “A Good Day” Even professional Artists’ like Mr. Henkes have to draw a picture more than once to make it just right!

14. Sometimes Mr. Henkes only uses a little color. This time he used black & white.

15. But sometimes Mr. Henkes uses a lot of bright colors in his pictures…

16. Mr. Henkes has to decide if he’d like to use shapes

17. And he has to decide if he’d like to use patterns….

18. Meet Kevin Henkes Talking about his book “Little White Rabbit” http://bcove.me/h9xjylw1

19. Mr. Henkes wrote a book with the title “My Garden”

20. What would you put in your own garden? What do you think Mr. Henkes wrote about in the garden in his book?