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January 8, 2009

Happy 2009!

I hope everyone is having a great new year so far. FFA ’09 was certainly started off in a BIG way for us when these images arrived in Angela’s inbox:

Troy sculpted this one-of-a-kind Spiderwick Leprechaun for his daughter for Christmas(!)

He says:

“My daughter and I are both huge fans and I made this little guy as a Xmas gift for her this year. He’s kind of an amalgam of the two leprechauns Tony has done in (Arthur Spiderwick’s) Field Guide. She (my daughter) had to follow a long trail of gold nuggets to find him on Xmas morning.”

What a dad! What a lucky gal!

AND

WHAT

FAN!

This is AMAZING work, Troy, Ang and I were blown away when we saw these. Your talent is incredible and I thank you for sharing this with us.

PS- here is a link to Troy’s other work.
PS- Tatiana sent us a link on Troy’s process…very cool!

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Tony DiTerlizzi: Never abandon imagination.

Imagination is a world of possibility that exists within each of us. It is what makes us uniquely human. It is our creative fingerprint that touches and influences the world around us. Imagination is essential to art and science; to innovation and prosperity. It gives us hope, calls us to action and leads to change.

Whether it’s fairies, dragons, robots or aliens, all of my children’s book characters are siblings born of my imagination – an imagination strengthened through years of encouragement from family, teachers and friends. While so many others abandoned it during their transition from childhood to adulthood, I fiercely held onto mine, hoping for a day when I could share it to inspire the next generation of dreamers. Innovators. World changers.

Imagination empowers us to envision and create a reality of what could be. We must hold it dear, foster it and never abandon it.

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Tony DiTerlizzi: Never abandon imagination.