Books & Illustration
Art Books
56 pages, published 2/15/2018
Marcia Santore's Ichthyoforms use fish-based imagery as sinuous forms that lead to the boundary between recognizable subject matter and complete abstraction, exploring the relationships of vivid colors, and discovering shape through pattern. Each painting is paired with thoughts from the artist, quotations from artists and writers, and piscine observations.
Coloring Books
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Abstract Patterns Coloring Book: Relaxing Meditations to Color for Adults or Children
102 pages, 50 individual coloring pages, paperback, Amalgamated Story, 2024 Find on Amazon, $10.00 Coloring is a relaxing, meditative, soothing activity. Studies show coloring is beneficial for mental health and helps adults achieve a meditative state of flow. And it's creative and fun for grownups and kids alike.
Abstract Patterns Coloring Book: Relaxing Meditations to Color for Adults or Children includes 50 unique abstract patterns by artist Marcia Santore (illustrator of Good King Wenceslas and Overheard on a Saltmarsh). Some are intricate and provide lots of smaller spaces to color, letting you lose yourself in the act of coloring. Others are more expansive, with some open space to make room for your own creativity to spread its wings. No need to worry about the “right” colors for a particular picture. Let your imagination lead your choices. Color inside the lines if you want to, or don’t. There are no rules. Each designs is placed on one side of a page, so you can use color pencils or markers without worrying about the ink soaking through onto the design on the next page. We do recommend putting a blank piece of paper behind the page if you are using markers, just in case. |
Twelve Days of Christmas Calendar
This is a perpetual calendar, so it can be used every year. Illustrated with digital collages and printed on high-quality, heavy, glossy stock. Published by Amalgamated Story.There are only a few copies left from the original print run. If you'd like to order 10 or more, email me and I will have more printed.
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Children's Books
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Good King Wenceslas
A beloved carol retold in pictures for today's families of all faiths and backgrounds. Adapted by Marcia Santore and Jessica Salinas from the 1853 carol by John Mason Neale 36 pages, paperback, Amalgamated Story, 2018 Available from Amazon.com $10.00 Revised version When the Wenceslas family sees a homeless man pushing a shopping cart through their neighborhood, they decide to lend a helping hand. Dad and Page drive through the snow to bring bags of groceries to the St. Agnes Fountain Homeless Shelter, but the boy finds it hard to make his way through the wind and snow! Will they have to turn back? Or can his father find a way to help Page keep going, so they can share their good fortune with others?“Good King Wenceslas” is for children of all backgrounds and beliefs. It’s a story of compassion for strangers and for the people we know best.Marcia Santore’s illustrations bring color and dancing movement to the cold night, from the cosy home of the Wenceslas family to the urban setting of the homeless shelter, and back again. It wouldn’t be Good King Wenceslas without the music! Discover an easy setting of the carol by composer Jonathan Santore at the end of the book. |
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Overheard on a Saltmarsh
Retold in pictures by Marcia Santore from the classic poem by Harold Monro 32 pages, paperback, Amalgamated Story, 2018 Available from Amazon.com $10.00 A goblin is happily making salt-crystal “bling” for himself, until he spots the nymph’s green glass beads and is overwhelmed by desire for them. He asks for the beads, he demands the beads, he whines and begs for the beads. But the nymph has her own purpose for the beads, using them to do her science–magic … Marcia Santore’s colorful pictures retell the story of Overheard on a Saltmarsh, introducing Harold Monro’s beloved poem to a new generation of children, while raising an important question: Just because some guy asks you for something, does that mean you have to give it him? Children (and adults!) will identify with the envy and desire of the tantruming goblin on the one hand, and with the serious-minded work of the gentle but firm nymph. The book also provides an opportunity to talk with children about when sharing is important and when maintaining personal boundaries is important, as well as the difference between “want” and “need.” And that sometimes the right answer is "No." |
