Tags: illustration, watercolour
Beautiful Inspiration
3 MayLast week I finished and submitted the final pages for my first picture book. Wahay! Yes, I am thrilled. But, this week I am left with that post-project feeling of emptiness. I do have things I should be getting on with but I’m searching for inspiration and getting very distracted. This morning I spent far too long searching online for the right coloured Penny Board for my soon to turn seven year old. A worthy thing to do, but not work.
Then I received a comment on my blog reminding me that some of my links are dead and perhaps I should check through them. This led to an hour of delightful inspiration as I looked up some artists blogs.So here goes with a whole load of lovely, up-to-date links;
Jody Pratt is a fellow local Melbourne illustrator. She’s a power house of creativity and does fantastic work for Illustrators Australia. I particularly loved reading about the chair project on her blog.
Christine Hargreaves is also based in Melbourne. She produces the most beautiful digital prints. I adore her sense of colour and design. You can check out her work in her online shop.
Judy Horacek is one of the best female cartoonists I know of. Her work is fabulously simple, hilarious and clever. I particularly love for page on ‘Mothers’
Lucky Beans is a blog I’ve checked out now and again for years. Just the most beautiful photography.
Oliver Jeffers is a brilliant artist and illustrator. His site is just a wealth of quirky, thought-provoking loveliness.
Suana Verasist’s work is just a visual feast. I could pour over her work all day long.
Yunmee Kyong. Just delicious.
‘Jump’ for IF
1 May
It’s been a crazy few weeks finishing a book deadline but it’s finally time for a breather. Off to Red Hill Art Show opening this Friday with a crowd of girls, which should be a great giggle. It’ll be interesting to see their responses to my recent animal creations.
This weeks Illustration Friday word is ‘jump’. As kids we spent a lot of time in the Summer at the river. Completely unsupervised, no safety barriers or first aid kit. Shock! Horror! How did we survive?. We jumped off rocks and slid down waterfalls and laughed and laughed. This Summer we camped in the hills by a river and my eldest joined in with the local boys and jumped of rock faces into the river. It nearly gave me heart failure.
The Best Day!
14 Mar
This is my girl and flying dog next to one of Shaun Tan’s
I don’t know whose this was but I like it a lot
Today I had the absolute pleasure of taking part in the One Word illustration event in the foyer of the ABC centre in Melbourne. It could take me while come down from the high of sitting next to Shaun Tan. We may have appeared to to be two illustrators industriously creating but I was desperately trying to think of things to say that were casual and conversational without showing my awe and wonder like a giggly school girl. This bottom picture is the one he did whilst sitting next to me. The event started with the announcement of a word ‘fly’ and a collection of around twenty illustrators set out on creating their reactions. Some of my absolute favourites were amongst the crowd; Elizabeth Botte, Alison Lester, Ann James. It was a fantastic day for me and has set me up beautifully for starting the colour pages for Hachette Publications. All the pictures will be auctioned in aid of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
