A New Website!

I have FINALLY gotten a new look for my website. I'm so excited! It's fresh and clean with big photos. Click on the image below and check it out! Let me know what you think or if you find any mistakes. I'm even going with my nickname (my initials for Barbara Benson = Bebe). Thanks!

Bebe - Self Portrait

I've never done a self portrait before. I gave myself my long hair since that seems the most me, and I'm growing it out again anyway! wink emoticon "Bebe - Self Portrait" - 36"h x 24"w, paper mosaic I find that making mosaics with paper is a great exercise in studying values. Because the papers are patterned and have a variety of colors, you have to see the overall value of the piece and ignore the color. It's really fun!

Video of recent work

I put together a little video of some of my work from the last year and a half... I wish you a great day!
Click Here to see it!

Review in Publishers Weekly

I am SOOOOO EXCITED!!!! My new book, "I Love You to Pieces!", got reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which is so incredible!! And it's a nice review!! Here it is... 

"Keith (Mosaic Zoo: An ABC Book) wisely keeps preciousness to a minimum in this sweet-natured look at animals’ devotion to their young. “Look” is the key word, since her striking stained glass mosaics are the book’s standout feature—it’s a medium that can’t help but echo the “pieces” referenced in the title and throughout Keith’s verse. Readers meet 15 parent-child animal pairs (foxes, armadillos, whales, crocodiles, and more) through variations on a repeating rhyme. “ ‘I love you to pieces, you’re my sweetie pie!’/ said the sheep to her lamb with a big happy sigh,” writes Keith. In the accompanying spread, the knock-kneed younger sheep smiles adoringly at its mother, as clouds of geometric glass shapes in creams, greens, blues, and browns create their woolly coats. While there are occasional hiccups in the lilt of Keith’s verse, the artistry she brings to her animal portraits—brightly colored squares on the breasts of her owl family resemble patchwork sweaters, while enamel painting gives her pigs speckled skin and faces that exude contentment—mark her as a real talent. All ages."

You can get it at HERE. 

Commission for Medical Center

One of four leaves for a medical center commission. More pictures and info at https://www.facebook.com/barbarakeithdesigns.

Book Giveaway on Goodreads

Goodreads Book Giveaway

I Love You to Pieces!

by Barbara Benson Keith

Giveaway ends November 05, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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My books are FINALLY here!!! (again)

Not sure if you heard or not, but my new book came out in July. Within a week, I realized that there was a major defect with the printing of the books and I had to discontinue sales and have the books reprinted.

Well...

The new, reprinted books are here!! They look beautiful, and will hold up well, with extra reinforcement in the binding. The books are filled with mosaic illustrations. The parent and baby animal combos are so sweet. I hope you will love it!

You can order it HERE. Thanks so much! :)