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Tessa Guzé, My Umbrella 2012, oil on canvas

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Jugar

Jugar is a children's book that I conceived while in India and then asked my mother Karen Guze to write for me to illustrate.

Book Description:

Jugar (joogar), n. The uniquely Indian concept, hard to translate, of inventively using whatever is at hand in order to get the job done.

Jugar is a young puppy living on the streets of a market in India. He is so young that all he knows is hot, dry weather—he has never seen the rainy season. He ignores the kind warnings of his friends Cow, Camel, and Monkey, and gets into trouble when it starts to rain.

He meets a young boy, and thanks to this boy’s creativity (or jugar), they both make it safely through the Monsoon.

If you would like to view the children's book illustrations in context a preview is available on blurb's website .

Tessa Guze, Jugar Book Cover Layout

Tessa Guze, Jugar and Mother Cow, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Jugar in the Market, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Jugar and Sonu the Camel, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, The Rain Drop, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Laughing Monkeys, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Testing the Water, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Swept Away, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Attempt to Climb, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, New Friends, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Marooned, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Going Home, oil on canvas, 2011

Please visit my painting portfolio website to see more of my paintings!