A mother of two mindlessly picked up a paintbrush in late March, and started painting the cover of one of the books she had read to her children earlier in the day -- and said she incorporated some “cartoonified” coronavirus themes, to try to make the situation less scary. “And then I just kept going — until I used up all of my daughter’s paint!” Stefanie Trilling said in an email Thursday.
Now it’s May, and Trilling’s work has turned quite a few heads. She’s been posting her paintings in a Facebook album called “Children’s Books for Pandemics,” which, at last check, had been shared more than 114,000 times on the booming social media platform.