Planet Friendly Artists

Suzanne Ross, illustrator of the lyric coloring books:
"The Rain is Coming" "Dinosaur Dance" and "The Grass is Green"

illustration of dinosaurs by Suzanne Ross

Grass is Green ilustrated by Suzanne Ross

Suzanne Ross illustrator of the Rain is Coming

Verlena Johnson to Illustrate
Community Garden Book

Verlena Johnson's painting of the Spiral Web

Verlena Johnsons, self-portrait with crown

"The Magic in You, Making Changes in Your Neighborhood, a fairy story" This is a long title for this short delightful story of a boy who finds a fairy has taken up residence in a trashed out vacant lots next door to his apartment building. The tells him that she had wished for him, so he could help her clean up the vacant lot and he was none too happy about it. What happened surprised even the fairy.

Penelope Torribio, the author of "The Magic in You, Making Changes in the Neighborhood" met Verlena at an AHA!, Artist Helping Artist meeting, and the magic was immediate. Penelope knew that Verlena Johnson's artistic style, with her beautiful use of color and mixture of iconoclasmic and a modern feel to her painting, was perfect combination for this modern fairytale. Verlena, a planet friendly artist, recognized "The Magic in You," as important story for our communities. Watch for this collaboration coming soon.

click here to go to Verlena's bio and artist statement

Art helps to look at our world from different perspective, perspectives that we might not use on our own.

Susan Dobay, Artist, Mixes Beauty and Functionality

Artist, Susan Dobay's, work demonstrates this principal beautifully. In her art we see what in a glance may appear simple, is in actually multi-layered and richly textured. Her art is both beautiful and functional, in that it teaches people to look closer, look deeper, and to use all there senses to interpret art and our world.

Click Paintings for Susan Dobay's Artist Statement of Recent Work
and to learn more about this artist.

Penelope Torribio gets 1st place for her digital art piece,
Einstein in my Garden.

Einstein in my Garden

It is a combination of two of her photos, a window and her grandson holding a grasshopper.
This is one of the photos in Penelope's book, "Bug Me, Reflections and Photographs of Bugs."
For more information click here.

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Be Guardians of the Earth is Accepting Submission for other
Planet Friendly Artists and Singer-Songwriters

Also

Coming Soon, Ecology Art Contest