Cover illustration for One week in January featuring a woman writing in her journal at a desk in an artist studio with various art supplies around.
Introductory page of text.
Page excerpt, a 2 page spread with an illustration spanning across both pages of someone, seen only from the waist down and from behind looking out a window and standing next to a messy paint can.
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Cover illustration for One week in January featuring a woman writing in her journal at a desk in an artist studio with various art supplies around.
Introductory page of text.
Page excerpt, a 2 page spread with an illustration spanning across both pages of someone, seen only from the waist down and from behind looking out a window and standing next to a messy paint can.
Page excerpt, a two page spread with one page full of text and the other a full page illustration of a dark restaurant setting.

One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary by Carson Ellis

$ 22.95

Hardcover, 80 pages, 7.8 x 9.3 inches. 

Award-winning, beloved children's book author and illustrator Carson Ellis makes a stunning adult debut with an illustrated memoir that evocatively captures a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s and in her journey as an artist. 

In January 2001, the young artist Carson Ellis moved into a warehouse in Portland, Oregon, with a group of fellow artists. For the first week she lived there, she kept a detailed diary full of dry observations, mordant wit, hijinks with friends (including her future husband, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy), and turn-of-the-millennium cultural touchstones. Now, Ellis has richly illustrated this two-decade-old journal with extraordinary new paintings in the signature style that has made her an award-winning picture book author today.

This beautiful volume offers a snapshot of a bygone era, a meticulous re-creation of quotidian frustrations and small, meaningful moments, and a meditation on what it means both to start your journey as an artist and to look back at that beginning many years later.