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William Low is working with Drawing America to offer on-site Plein Air classes at the amazing Olana State Historic Park in Hudson New York on September 25, 2021 (rain date – next day 9/26). Join William in this stunning setting at ‘peak fall season’ in New York State for some outdoor painting.

It’s part of the first Olana Plein Air Festival and participants can spend the whole day at the artist Fredrick Church’s masterpiece (1872) home and studio. Church was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.

Participants in the festival may join others on-site for a full day of painting by purchasing a general admission ticket and if they are interested in group instruction – purchase an additional ticket for William Low’s workshops :

William Low: Introduction to Landscape Painting – Sketch and Exploration ​(Early Session)
September 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT  – TICKETS HERE

William Low: Landscape Painting – Capturing the Essence of What You See ​(Late Session)
September 25 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT – TICKETS HERE

RAINDATE: Sunday, September 26, 2021

TICKET  and FESTIVAL information HERE: https://drawingamerica.com/olana-plein-air-festival

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William Low Artist, Curriculum Vitae

Education

MA, Syracuse University, 2005

BFA, Parsons School of Design, 1981

New York City High School of Art & Design

 

Teaching Positions & Institutions

Fashion Institute of Technology/Illustration, Professor 2020

Fashion Institute of Technology/Illustration, Associate Professor 2012-2019

Fashion Institute of Technology/Illustration, Assistant Professor 2006-2012

Fashion Institute of Technology/Illustration, Adjunct Professor 1999-2006

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, Junior Concepts, Spring 1999

Syracuse University, NY, Illustration Concepts, Fall 1998

School of Visual Arts, NY, Painting and Illustration, Fall/Spring 1986-1998

 

Clients & Commissions

MTA Arts and Design – Public Works Glass Mural for Deer Park Station, Long Island Railroad 2018.

Rosewood Hotels and Tony Chi Design – commissioned original series of 48 works for Rosewood Hong Kong Hotel, 2018.

NYS Department of Transportation and Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative – Traffic Signal Box Designs, 2017.

United States Postal Service – Illustration for stamps series, Holiday Windows & Hanukkah stamp, 2016.

Macmillan Publishers – Illustration for the book, The Last Days of Jesus, by Bill O’Reilly, 2014.

United States Postal Service – Illustration for stamps series, Winter Flowers , 2011.

New Jersey City University, William J. Maxwell College of Arts & Sciences – new programs brochure 2011.

MTA Arts and Design – Public Works Stain Glass Murals (2) for Parkchester Subway, 2008.

MTA Arts and Design – Painting for MTA Arts in Transit Poster program, 2008.

Scribner’s Paperbacks – Illustration for reissue, To Have or Have Not , by Ernest Hemingway, 1996.

Eddie Bauer, Inc. – Illustration for Eddie Bauer Spring 1992 catalogue cover, 1992.

Eddie Bauer, Inc. – Illustration for Eddie Bauer Spring Cover, 1990.

Viking Penguin – Illustration for reissue of John Steinbeck’s book, Cannery Row , 1985

 

Lectures & Speaking Engagements

SCBWI Winter Conference, “Drawing Race Authentically” New York, NY, 2020.

SCBWI Winter Conference, “Best Practices: Digital Prepress for all Illustrators” New York, NY, 2020.

Society of Illustrators – Reading Pictures. Presentation and demonstration, NY 2019

United States Postal Service – First Day of Issue Ceremony & Artist Presentation for Holiday Windows Stamp Series by William Low, 2016

Society of Illustrators, NY, Connecting Commuters and Culture: MTA Arts & Design, 2016.

Kutztown University, Keynote speaker, Children’s Literature Conference, 2015

Apple Store/14 Street, Master Class: Illustrating with William Low, 2 012.

FIT Library, presentation and demonstration for Love Your Library 2012.

Barnes and Nobles Booksellers, presentation for educators from the Half Hollow Hills school district, NY 2011.

M. Jerry Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature/NJCU Foundation, presentation of picture books, Jersey City NJ, 2011.

SCBWI 2010 Summer Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 .

American Library Association Annual Pre-Conference, Washington DC, 2010.

Mazza Museum, presentation and demonstration, Findlay, OH 2009.

International Reading Association, presentation and demonstration for IRA Annual convention, Minneapolis MN, 2009.

Brooklyn Public Library, presentation and demonstration, Brooklyn NY, 2009.

New York Public Library Bookfest, “Picture Books in the Age of Technology,” 2007.

Multicultural Children’s Book Festival, Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 2007. American Library Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2007.

Syracuse University, NY, “Visual Communications Symposium,” 1997, 2002.

Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, 1995.

 

Seminars

Norman Rockwell Museum, MA, Summer Instruction Series, 2015.

New Jersey City University, Special Projects: Documenting Ellis Island, NJ 2011.

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Summer Annual, Pushing Pixels seminar, Los Angeles CA 2010.

Norman Rockwell Museum, MA, Summer Instruction Series, 2001. Syracuse University, NY, Illustration Concepts, 1998.

School of Visual Arts, NY, Painting and Illustration, 1986-1998.

 

Books

Yours ‘Til Niagara Falls, by Brenda Guiberson, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions, by Russell Freeman, Henry Holt and Company, 2018

The First Christmas Night, by Laura Godwin, Feiwell and Friends, 2016

Feathered Dinosaurs, by Brenda Guiberson, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.

Daytime Nighttime, by William Low, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

Machines go to Work in the City, by William Low, Henry Holt and Company, 2012.

Me and Momma and Big John, by Mara Rockliff, Candlewick Press, 2012.

Ghost Hands, by T. A. Barron, Philomel books, 2011.

Machines go to Work, by William Low, Henry Holt and Company, 2009.

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Smith, Henry Holt Publishers, 2007.

Old Penn Station, by William Low, Henry Holt and Company, 2007.

The Day The Stones Walked, by T. A. Barron, Philomel books, 2007.

Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story, by Amy Littlesugar, Philomel Books, 2005.

Henry and the Kite Dragon, by Bruce Edward Hall, Philomel Books, 2004.

The Days of Summer, by Eve Bunting, Harcourt Brace and Company, 2001.

Chinatown, by William Low, Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

 

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

Huntington Public Library Gallery, “William Low: 15 Years of Picture Books”, Huntington NY, 2009.

Memorial Gallery, SUNY Farmingdale, NY, 2006.

Huntington Arts Council Petite Gallery, Huntington NY, 2005.

Houston’s Restaurants, San Francisco CA, 2003.

Cross World Communications corporate gallery, Tokyo, 2000.

 

Group Exhibitions:

Heckscher Museum of Art – three paintings chosen for the Long Island Biennial, NY, 2020

The Painting Center – juried show, Patterns of Influence, NY, 2019

Society of Illustrators – Illustrators 61 Annual – 2019.

#IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive – FIT NYC Arts & Design Gallery, 2019.

Mills Pond Gallery – curated and exhibited, Smithown NY 2017.

Meridian International Center – “This Land Is Our Land.” Washington DC, 2006.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – Wired Magazine: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design, CA, 1998.

Adobe Systems Incorporated – Adobe Photoshop Digital Masters Art Show, 1998. Smithtown Township Arts Council – “The Fine Art of Illustration,” Mill Pond NY, 1996.

 

Awards

Society of Illustrators Silver Medal/Institutional Category – Rosewood Hotels 2019

New York Times Best Illustrated Picture Book Award for Old Penn Station, 2009.

Parent’s Choice Honor Award for Lily, by Abigail Thomas, 1994.

Silver Medal/Advertising Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 1993.

Silver Medal/Book Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 1992.

Silver Medal/Editorial Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 1991.

Silver Medal/Editorial Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 1984.

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The Long Beach Island Foundation Art Festival (FAF 2021) is a juried makers retail show, curated by LBIF’s Arts & Exhibition Committee.  I’ll be displaying oil paintings on linen of the surrounding island commercial fishing industry and the island shore views.

Also available, will be fine art giclée prints of these paintings, as well as prints from my Cape Cod trips and other US North East shorelines. Please come by and say hello if you are on Long Beach Island NJ on July 10th, 2021.

There will be a special preview sale of these prints on my website before the festival. Please follow me on Instagram to get updates on this offering.

Founded in 1948, the LBIF’s mission, to promote the arts and sciences on Long Beach Island and in the surrounding communities by enlightening, educating, and stimulating thought and discussion about current trends in the arts and sciences and by providing broad educational and cultural programs for all ages.

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I am please to announce that 3 of my paintings from the Barnegat Light series are are view at the The Heckscher Museum of Art’s 2020 Biennial.

The Long Island Biennial is a juried exhibition that fosters deeper connections between contemporary artists from Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the communities in which they live and work. The 2020 Biennial brings together 100 artworks by 52 artists.

William Low paintings on view in the Museum’s galleries until January 10. 2021:

The Biennial received 841 entries from 302 artists. Jurors Erin Kimmel, Art Writer and Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Stony Brook University; Heidi Lange, Director of DC Moore Gallery, New York City; and Paton Miller, Artist/Curator, selected the works on view on the basis of creativity, quality, and professionalism. Contemporary art has been essential to The Heckscher Museum of Art since its founding 100 years ago.

The Heckscher Museum of Art is located at:

2 Prime Ave

Huntington, NY 11743

Google Maps Link

 

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Starting Out

My art education can be broken down into two separate and distinct phases.

As a student in New York City’s High School of Art and Design, I developed my skills in drawing and painting. Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg taught me how to paint portraits in the tradition of Rembrandt, Velasquez and John Singer Sargent. I caught the painting bug and joined their early morning painting group, affectionately known as the “Old Hat’s Club”.

In my second phase, I was a student in the BFA Illustration program in the Parsons School of Design, where my professors started to undo all that I have learned. Instead of focusing on traditional painting and portraiture, I studied color with Martin Canin, value studies with Bill Clutz and composition, drawing and illustration concepts with David Passalacqua. During this transitional time, I used to visit my old High School whenever I needed a painting “fix.”

When I attended the Parsons in Paris summer program, I discovered a newfound passion for painting from observation, but years of college education has changed me. I was no longer interested in painting what I saw… I needed something more.

Paddle Ball Players ®William Low

So I started my paintings from a different point of view, constructing scenes using color, lighting and composition.

In the spring semester of my senior year, I created a painting of my father’s Chinese hand laundry, Stratford Avenue. This was done from memory, without photographic reference and was influenced by Edward Hopper’s painting Early Sunday Morning. This piece was displayed as my final piece for the Senior Illustration show.

 

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” –C.S. Lewis

Much to my parent’s chagrin, I graduated with a BFA, one portfolio piece and no real job prospects. But Stratford Avenue became an important piece because it laid the groundwork for a new body of work and the beginning of an artistic journey. I continued creating additional paintings based on my childhood in the Bronx. I wanted to explore the juxtaposition between figures and space; nudging shapes and colors to create complex compositions.

South Bronx ®William Low

Rediscovering The Bronx

I used these childhood memory paintings to talk about the many changes I experienced while growing up in the Bronx. During the 1960’s my old neighborhood was vibrant, diverse and exciting; but all of that changed in the 70’s when unemployment, drugs and crime became a plague in the city. I wished to convey the city as I saw it: looking for beauty in urban decay, discovering signs of life in an abandoned building or street.

I was not trying to make art. I was trying to make sense out of the world I was experiencing. – Marshall Arisman

Early Portfolio – Buildings as main characters

My early portfolio included six paintings from my Childhood Memory project, supplemented with black and white pen and ink drawings. Art directors responded positively to the emotional impact of the paintings, but I still did not get any commissions.

The subject of my paintings became a limitation. Yes, I could paint a New York tenement in shadow, but could I paint an interior scene or rural landscape? Were my paintings limited to the NYC environment?

Stick Ball Players ®William Low

#myfirstjob – A New Day for the Bronx

My first major break came from the New York Daily News. Thomas Ruis was the art director for the Sunday Magazine section and he was putting together a special supplement called “A New Day For The Bronx?” Since my paintings conveyed the right combination of urban realism with hope, he decided to take a chance with me and commissioned five illustrations for the magazine. What a thrill to be working on this dream assignment!

When the magazine came out I received a call from the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Jimmy Breslin. He wanted to meet me and was interested in purchasing the original painting from the magazine cover. A second piece, The South Bronx, won a Silver Medal at the Society of illustrators Annual competition. This commission helped to launch my career as a freelance illustrator.

Looking back over the years, this early work represented an exciting phase in my development as an artist. Even then, I knew that I needed to expand my horizons, to create paintings of places other than New York City. But it took a few years to get there.

That’s okay, because the journey was fun. Eventually, we must all leave home.

A New Day for the Bronx ®William Low

 

 

 

 

 

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William Low Artist

If you were to observe William Low as he walks down a crowded Manhattan street, you would never suspect him of being a native New Yorker. In fact, he was born in the Bronx, in the back seat of a taxicab, but you would guess that he is a tourist. His camera is ready, his head is thrown back, his mouth is open and his eyes are scanning the tall buildings. He is observing the shimmering sunlight on a building. He takes a photograph, makes a mental note of the color of the light and then, most importantly, he remembers the feeling that he got when he saw that light. With that information stored in his mind, he will use it when the time is right–in a painting for a book cover, newspaper article or calendar.

William’s interest in architecture and the classic use of light gives his art a singular vision-a look all its own. The more he sees, the wider his repertoire of subject matter. When it becomes impractical to “see it all,” he relies on photographs. When Eddie Bauer asked William to create a painting of a single figure kayaking along a sunlit Washington state coastline, William requested as much photo reference as possible. William had never seen that particular section of Washington’s coastline. He has never been on a kayak. He can’t even swim. But he does know light and its effects. With photos in hand he completed a painting that has touched thousands of Eddie Bauer customers. Many of them have written to say that the scene moved them to tears.

“I have been there before,” wrote one reader,” and I can tell by your painting that you have experienced the same feelings I have felt kayaking along the beautiful seashore as the sun went down.”

His approach to picture making developed when he was an art student. As a student in the High School of Art and Design, he studied classical portraiture using oils under the guidance of Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg. At the Parson’s School of Design, where he earned his BFA, David Passalacqua taught him how to do everything else: draw, compose; think artistically and abstractly. He is good in mathematics and he uses this information in surprising ways to create forms from his imagination.

These disparate skills come together in his creative process. Math is used to logically construct his forms, his years at Parsons help him to compose shapes into modern compositions, and his classical training helps to lay down the colors a la prima, with the pigments mixed on the palette and applied thickly, without the use of painting mediums or turpentine. William Lo

William Low Artist

William has built a successful career as a commercial illustrator and painter Since the 1980’s. In that time he has won numerous awards including five Silver medals from the Society of Illustrators (latest one in 2019), and has illustrated several children’s books, including Lily, by Abigail Thomas (a Parent’s Choice Honor Award winner in 1994), Old Penn Station which he authored and The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions by Russell Freedman. His work has been featured in Wacom Inc., promotional videos, Print Magazine, the Adobe Photoshop Wow! Book, by Linnea Dayton and Paul Davis, The Illustrator in America 1860-2000 by Walt Reed. His public works projects are featured in New York’s Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts and Design by Sandra Bloodworth as well as created 3 murals for MTA Arts in the Bronx and Deer Park LIRR station Long Island.  His books include The Days of Summer by Eve Bunting, Feathered Dinosaurs by Brenda Z. Guiberson, and Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall.  Authored by William Low are Chinatown 1997, Old Penn Station 2007, Machines Go to Work 2009, Daytime Nighttime 2015, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

He is currently the principal in Cobalt Illustration Studios, a full service studio that produces fine art paintings, illustrations for children’s books and ad agencies and fine art quality prints. The studio’s many clients include: Rosewood Hong Kong, American Airlines, Guideposts Magazine, Harcourt Brace and Company, Harper Collins Publishers, Henry Holt & Company, LL Bean Inc., and Monsanto Corporation. Many of his paintings are on permanent view at various Houston’s Restaurants around the country. He also teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Even with decades of painting under his belt, William Low continues to grow artistically. Currently, he has been painting on canvas with oils for private commissions and personal work.  His latest computer paintings reveal a seamless transition from traditional to digital media. He was not surprised that his digital work met with resistance at first, given the computer’s reputation for producing cold, sterile images. Utilizing his skills as a painter, William has helped to change this perception. His digital images are remarkable for their emotional depth, color, texture and even their painterly brush strokes. In fact, many people are surprised to learn, when they see his work on the printed page, that the images were not the product of traditional media.

After all of these years William Low is still very much that same person – a young artist from the Bronx who observes and paints the world around him. He draws the viewer into his work, be it traditionally or digitally generated, seducing the viewer with beautiful light, color and composition.

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If you were to observe William Low as he walks down a crowded Manhattan street, you would never suspect him of being a native New Yorker. In fact, he was born in the Bronx, in the back seat of a taxicab, but you would guess that he is a tourist. His camera is ready, his head is thrown back, his mouth is open and his eyes are scanning the tall buildings. He is observing the shimmering sunlight on a building. He takes a photograph, makes a mental note of the color of the light and then, most importantly, he remembers the feeling that he got when he saw that light. With that information stored in his mind, he will use it when the time is right–in a painting for a book cover, newspaper article or calendar.

William’s interest in architecture and the classic use of light gives his art a singular vision-a look all its own. The more he sees, the wider his repertoire of subject matter. When it becomes impractical to “see it all,” he relies on photographs. When Eddie Bauer asked William to create a painting of a single figure kayaking along a sunlit Washington state coastline, William requested as much photo reference as possible. William had never seen that particular section of Washington’s coastline. He has never been on a kayak. He can’t even swim. But he does know light and its effects. With photos in hand he completed a painting that has touched thousands of Eddie Bauer customers. Many of them have written to say that the scene moved them to tears.

“I have been there before,” wrote one reader,” and I can tell by your painting that you have experienced the same feelings I have felt kayaking along the beautiful seashore as the sun went down.”

His approach to picture making developed when he was an art student. As a student in the High School of Art and Design, he studied classical portraiture using oils under the guidance of Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg. At the Parson’s School of Design, where he earned his BFA, David Passalacqua taught him how to do everything else: draw, compose; think artistically and abstractly. He is good in mathematics and he uses this information in surprising ways to create forms from his imagination.

These disparate skills come together in his creative process. Math is used to logically construct his forms, his years at Parsons help him to compose shapes into modern compositions, and his classical training helps to lay down the colors a la prima, with the pigments mixed on the palette and applied thickly, without the use of painting mediums or turpentine. William Lo

William has built a successful career as a commercial illustrator and painter Since the 1980’s. In that time he has won numerous awards including five Silver medals from the Society of Illustrators (latest one in 2019), and has illustrated several children’s books, including Lily, by Abigail Thomas (a Parent’s Choice Honor Award winner in 1994), Old Penn Station which he authored and The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions by Russell Freedman. His work has been featured in Wacom Inc., promotional videos, Print Magazine, the Adobe Photoshop Wow! Book, by Linnea Dayton and Paul Davis, The Illustrator in America 1860-2000 by Walt Reed. His public works projects are featured in New York’s Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts and Design by Sandra Bloodworth as well as created 3 murals for MTA Arts in the Bronx and Deer Park LIRR station Long Island.  His books include The Days of Summer by Eve Bunting, Feathered Dinosaurs by Brenda Z. Guiberson, and Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall.  Authored by William Low are Chinatown 1997, Old Penn Station 2007, Machines Go to Work 2009, Daytime Nighttime 2015, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

He is currently the principal in Cobalt Illustration Studios, a full service studio that produces fine art paintings, illustrations for children’s books and ad agencies and fine art quality prints. The studio’s many clients include: Rosewood Hong Kong, American Airlines, Guideposts Magazine, Harcourt Brace and Company, Harper Collins Publishers, Henry Holt & Company, LL Bean Inc., and Monsanto Corporation. Many of his paintings are on permanent view at various Houston’s Restaurants around the country. He also teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Even with decades of painting under his belt, William Low continues to grow artistically. Currently, he has been painting on canvas with oils for private commissions and personal work.  His latest computer paintings reveal a seamless transition from traditional to digital media. He was not surprised that his digital work met with resistance at first, given the computer’s reputation for producing cold, sterile images. Utilizing his skills as a painter, William has helped to change this perception. His digital images are remarkable for their emotional depth, color, texture and even their painterly brush strokes. In fact, many people are surprised to learn, when they see his work on the printed page, that the images were not the product of traditional media.

After all of these years William Low is still very much that same person- that wide-eyed boy from the Bronx who observes and paints the world around him. He draws the viewer into his work, be it traditionally or digitally generated, seducing the viewer with beautiful light, color and composition.

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In 2017, I was commissioned to explore areas of Hong Kong and develop a painting series for guest rooms for Rosewood Hotel’s newest property in Hong Kong – home city of Rosewood Hotel’s parent company New World Development Corporation.

Working with Tony Chi Design in NYC , a series of trips, sketches and creating a library of unique reference materials to bring back to my painting studio began. In less than 18 months, I created 48 painted images as well as hundreds of state-of-the-art fine art prints based on a portion of those paintings. Expanding on the project, Robert Louey Design in Los Angles, developed a full color book of my sketches for this project as ‘out-takes’ and included reproduction of some of the finished paintings. The book ‘Whimsical Tales of Hong Kong’ is available to hotel guests.

Rosewood Hong Kong opened in March 2019 as a ultra-luxury property in the heart of the Victoria Dockside arts & design district on the shores of Victoria Harbour. Situated in Tsim Sha Tsui – Kowloon’s dynamic, culturally compelling heart – the property is set to become an icon for the city, celebrating the area’s role as Hong Kong’s new creative and cultural epicenter.

In trying to capture the dynamic, fast moving, ever changing cityscape of Hong Kong, I have barely touched the surface of the city and its people. I’m hoping to get back there soon and find more places that can only be found by urban explorers and adventuresome artists.

All Images © William Low 2018

In 2015-16 I had the honor to work with author Russell Freedman on his final book The Sinking of the Vasa: A Shipwreck of Titanic Proportions.  It was his first book under Godwin Books – Publisher Henry Holt and Co. and we were guided by Laura Godwin, VP and publisher of Godwin Books and editor and author extraordinaire.  I’ve been working with Laura since we were both starting out in Children’s books.

Since I love painting from life and live models and painting in the Vasa Museum in Stockholm was not a possibility, I build my own Vasa ship model from a kit.  I used it to sketch out the most complicated views of the ship (before it capsized and sank in the harbor 1628).

Normally, when working on an author’s manuscript, we don’t usually show layouts and ideas to the author.  However, Laura and I wanted to work very closely with Russell.  He was a award winning author and biographer (Newbery medal 1988) who had thoroughly researched the history of the Vasa ship for this book. Chances are, he might notice some things in my depiction of the ship!

Russell saw the final book layout before he passed away in early 2018 and he seemed to be pleased.  Russell was my english professor at the New School/Parson’s School of Design, so his approval meant a lot to me.  Also, his extensive back list of over 47 non-fiction history books for young readers is an impressive portfolio, so my trust in him was absolute.  The book was published in August 14, 2018 and is published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers and sold by Macmillan.

On May 7, 2017 I will be at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA with a great group of artists who have all participated in the What’s Your Favorite Color? By  Eric Carle & Friends.  Join us for an afternoon celebrating the new Eric Carle & Friends book, What’s Your Favorite Color? Activities at the museum include family programs with contributing illustrators Mike Curato, Etienne Delessert, and myself – William Low!

This event takes place from 1-4 pm and I will be doing a live painting demonstration.

If you have never visited The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, you will be rewarded with a lovely drive into a peaceful landscape you can see from all sides of the museum.  Founded by Eric Carle, the renowned author and illustrator of the classic children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, it is the first full-scale museum in the country devoted to picture book art. The highlight is the supply-rich art center, where museum educators provide a tranquil environment to create your own art.

Visit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art website

Order the book What’s Your Favorite Color? Henry Holt and Co. May 2, 2017