Vanessa Brantley-Newton

I am an illustrator of over 100 children's books with 5 of them written and illustrated by me. I am a big kid at heart and I love to learn. I have an agent Lori Nowicki of Painted- Words.com and I teach online at Storyteller Academy with my long time friend and Illustrator Arree Chung. I love mixed media arts and collage! They are my favorites and I am an advent collector of found papers of all kinds. When I am not creating with paper I am singing Jazz, Gospel and Negro Spirituals and I love to COOK!
I have just done a pilot with PBSkids.org. The show is called ,"Ms. V and Me" . It is a short segment of 7 minutes where I do an art project with a child between 5-7 and that piece of artwork is turned into a short animation and then we do a song! In all I love to create joy and positivity through art, music, song and fun!