Anneliese Juergensen's Art!

Even the masthead knows something’s up on the Revenge!

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Animal Selfies!

Ink and watercolor on paper

...Sometimes Pearl would say, "this kid is driving me CRAZY!" But at night time, when he was asleep, Pearl tiptoed up to his room, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that human boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my Steven you'll be.

I made this picture for my sweet baby niece, and I want to share it with you, too!

Being a season of giving, I thought I'd help spread the word on a few ways to support a cause close to my heart: bringing books to children and families in need!

#GiveABook

This is free! On Twitter or Facebook, if you post with the hashtag #GiveABook before Christmas, publishing company Penguin Books will donate one book per hashtag to the charity Save The Children! You can find more about it (from this video with actor Nick Offerman, aka Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec!) here!

First Book and #GiveBooks

This organization distributes new, high-quality books and educational materials to schools serving low-income students in the United States and Canada. They've distributed more than 120 million books, and every $10 buys four books for a child in need, with 97 cents of every dollar going to their cause! More info here! The publishing company Chronicle Books has also partnered with First Book, you can find out more about their awesome #givebooks campaign (which already met its goals, YAY!) here!

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Country music superstar Dolly Parton has a wonderful early childhood literacy program that gives individual children in need a free book a month, from birth to the age of five. She started it in her home state of Tennessee, and the Imagination Library now distributes over 50,000,000 books in four countries! More about it here!

Ferguson Public Library

The library in Ferguson, MO is doing amazing work for the community that is experiencing so much violence and heartache. When schools and municipal services are closed, the library stays open with special programs and activities for the kids in the community. You can donate directly to the library here, and you can also purchase a book for the library from their wish list at Powell's Books here (Powell's will ship the book directly to the library for you!)

We Need Diverse Books

This grassroots organization was created to address the lack of diversity in children's book publishing. Many studies show that creating more media with diverse characters and topics is greatly beneficial to ALL children. We Need Diverse Books brings awareness to the problem and works with people involved in making and distributing children's books. You can learn more about them here, and you can donate to their IndieGoGo campaign until December 10th here!

Getting some pictures framed for an upcoming art show!

I was very excited to learn that two of my artworks, "Old Friends" and "Take Good Care Of It," were featured on the front page of RedBubble this week!

You can purchase them and other art that I've made at RedBubble as a print, or even as a tote bag or a pillow cover! You can see my store here!

Prints of "Old Friends"