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Category: ART ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN
Painting dolls made a bloody crime scene!
Painting Dolls on school holidays The kids and I created what looked like a bloody crime scene painting dolls. I have been so inspired lately playing in so many mediums and creating so many things I can’t stop! I have been designing patterns, participating in #Inktober and #illo52weeks while finishing a picture book off (…
Fun ways to make faces with students
Teaching facial expression is one of my favourite activities. I recently work-shopped with the delightfully well-mannered students at Scotch College doing just that. For further practice , I encouraged the boys to pull faces in a mirror to copy. Exaggerated faces help us understand how the different parts of the face alter our expression. Cartoon…
Drawings memories and making cards
It is nice to create cards for your loved ones. For a bit of fun (don’t laugh) I thought I would show you the birthday card I made my daughter from an old sketchbook image. The drawing is of my then little girl holding her favourite bunny toy. I sketched this portrait in 1996. This…
Felicity’s Favourite Hug Illustration
Now this is the stuff dreams are made of! My author friend Nola Passmore wrote on her Facebook wall… Great to see the book “Better than a Superhero”, illustrated by Kayleen West, reviewed in Focus magazine (Magazine for the Anglican church in Southern QLD). They quoted a four-year-old called Felicity who said “I really like…
Balancing Manuscripts on the Hop
I have been asked to join a writer’s blog hop by the lovely and very talented, energetic, diligent, story-savy, entertaining, encouraging , creatively marvelous, and astoundingly popular children’s author Penny Reeve – too many adjectives? Isn’t that is what blogging is for? Penny is a children’s author who held that passion since the age of three!…