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Category: Creative Lifestyle
52 Week Gift Card Challenge – #2 Kids
This is the second week’s #illo52weeks subject is kids. This image came from an older sketch of my eldest daughter who is now in her 20s. I reworked it yesterday. She loved to dress up. It was painted in watercolour and I played with the background in Photoshop adding the larger balloons, background a bit…
52 Week Gift Card Challenge – #1 Eggs
Because I am not one to slow down too much and always have to be creating something, I have set myself a new challenge for 2014-gift card illustrations, experimenting as I would in a sketchbook. This will keep me fresh while working on books this year. I want to do card illustration per week. I…
Happy New Year – what a year it was!
I almost felt overwhelmed at the thought of my first post for 2014. I have so much news. So much has happened over the last few weeks so I will try to be brief… ASA PROGRAM COVER The Australian Society of Authors selected me to illustrate the 2014 Professional Development Program cover for 2014. What…
Creating Author Platform Event
Children’s Author speaking on creating author platform This weekend I have been invited to speak at the Caleb Conference in Indooroopilly, Queensland. The sessions are Marketing Tips and Traps and Children’s Books Today. Publisher Rochelle Manners (Wombat Books) and I will be discussing author platform with writers from all over Australia and New Zealand. The conference…
Together Everyone Achieves More
Together Everyone Achieves More The first SCBWI Victoria/Tas/SA Creative Weekend Escape in Maldon is this weekend where I will be joining thirty writers, illustrators, presenters, publishers and editors in what can only be described as total creative self-indulgence. We will working to advance our craft, share our love of children’s books, whilst escaping the day-to-day…