No Matter What Shape You're In

One of the many pleasures of summer time is being outdoors,
at parks, at the beach, at concerts, or anywhere that people gather to relax and spend time with each other.

I love people watching;
as an artist I am endlessly fascinated by the variety of forms that we come in.
For me, watching

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Apple or Pear?

Not a String Bean

Pear Shape?
Apple Shape?
Sweet,
Delicious
Woman shape!
from More to Love, © Elizabeth Patch, all rights reserved

I discovered apple-shaped & pear-shaped bodies in a teen magazine
when I was about eleven years old.
At the time, I was shaped like a string bean, straight and round, and I hadn’t really thought

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Body Image for Teens: Huge

In my 20 years of teaching high school, it has been my experience that the majority of girls
hate the bodies they were born with.
Fat girls, skinny girls, smart girls, talented girls and girls of different backgrounds all talk obsessively about their weight,
complain constantly about their size, tease each other and

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Such a Pretty Face!

Such a pretty face!

if only she would lose weight…

How often have we heard that little bit of “helpful” commentary?

Gosh, thanks for the opinion!
Now I feel great from the neck up!
I’ll call you when I’m perfect!

But wait! There’s more!

• Eyes, OK but looking a little tired.

• Breasts, nope, too

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True Love Story

Love Story

Love knows all sizes.

from More to Love,
written and illustrated by Elizabeth Patch

Oh romance!

It is so much fun to get swept up in stories filled with
passion and drama, gowns and glamour,
star-crossed destiny and tragic desire…

Since childhood we’ve learned from fairy tales that the most beautiful Princess wins the heart

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This is End Fat Talk Week!

Here is a link to my post on ending “Fat Talk”
including the illustrated page in “More to Love” on the same topic.

Below is a video produced by the TriDelta Sorority, sponsors of “End Fat Talk” Week.

An Interview with Author & Illustrator Elizabeth Patch

Newly published interview about my book “More to Love” with WWomanGlobally.
Thanks so much to my interviewer Alexandra Inselmann!
She does great work supporting “not famous” women who are trying to make a difference in the world. Please take a look around the site, and please leave a comment!

An excerpt from the

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International No Diet Day, May 6

International No Diet Day originated in 1992 by Mary Evans Young, a recovered anorexic and the director of a British activist group called Diet breakers. INDD was established to challenge the cultural attitudes and values that contribute to chronic dieting, weight preoccupation, eating disorders,

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