Yes, I always do pretty elaborate miniature books, dummy books because I think to have it in the book shape is helpful to me in terms of the pacing but also in terms of the whole feel of what that might look like. And often that’s when the most substantial amount of sort of the creative process happens in those dummy moments. And getting whatever was — happened to be good in that dummy into the final artwork is often difficult for me, somehow I don’t know why.
Let’s see. That is a funny little bag of ends of yarn. He’s a new little dummy of — a new little book about Daisy called Daisy Get’s Lost and this is the first dummy of Daisy. It’s also wordless. This is what my dummies look like. They are small and handmade and hand painted and it gives me a way of seeing if this book is doing what I want it to be doing.
So here’s Daisy and I won’t go through the whole thing, but you can see kind of what it might look like and Daisy is lost and she’s found. And when she’s found she turns around and runs back. So as a matter of fact the book that will be coming out in the Fall looks very little like this. It’s quite changed. But this was the first version and first something rather for me to look at and consider and it lets me get started. That’s what a dummy looks like.