Insights into an Illustrator
November 8, 2020
Finally my website is passable enough to publish. I'm sure I have more work to do to it to get it up to scratch and so it will be an ongoing process and a huge learning curve for me.
Latest news! I have just completed 25 large illustrations(Illo's) and 25 smaller illustrations for a children's book about a satin bowerbird. The author, Barb Cromie, is yet to publish so the title and an explanation of the story will have to wait as I respect my author/illustrator confidentiality agreement. However, with Barb's permission, I have posted some illo's from the story. See my portfolio pages.
As most of my friends and family are aware, I was published for the first time in May 2020. The book, Watching Through The Day, by Julie Thorndyke and published by ipoz Publishing, features illustrations undertaken during a year of personal turmoil. Soon after I was engaged to create the illustrations for Watching Through The Day, I was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.
However, I was not going to let cancer stop me from seeing my lifelong dream of becoming a children's book illustrator come to fruition. And so while I recovered from surgery, I sat with my computer in my hospital bed and illustrated. I illustrated all through my chemo treatment and my radiation treatment and my recovery at home. To be honest, having the distraction of illustrating and a deadline to meet, stopped me from worrying about myself and helped me to have a positive attitude throughout this personal saga.
You can see some of the illustrations from Watching Through The Day, on my portfolio pages and if you click the image, it will open the ipoz Publishing page where you can purchase the book, alternatively, you can click the following link
https://www.ipoz.biz/portfolio-single/watching-through-the-day/
With these two books now complete, it's back to the "drawing board" for me. I am currently illustrating three new books with more to come so watch this space .....
Finally my website is passable enough to publish. I'm sure I have more work to do to it to get it up to scratch and so it will be an ongoing process and a huge learning curve for me.
Latest news! I have just completed 25 large illustrations(Illo's) and 25 smaller illustrations for a children's book about a satin bowerbird. The author, Barb Cromie, is yet to publish so the title and an explanation of the story will have to wait as I respect my author/illustrator confidentiality agreement. However, with Barb's permission, I have posted some illo's from the story. See my portfolio pages.
As most of my friends and family are aware, I was published for the first time in May 2020. The book, Watching Through The Day, by Julie Thorndyke and published by ipoz Publishing, features illustrations undertaken during a year of personal turmoil. Soon after I was engaged to create the illustrations for Watching Through The Day, I was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.
However, I was not going to let cancer stop me from seeing my lifelong dream of becoming a children's book illustrator come to fruition. And so while I recovered from surgery, I sat with my computer in my hospital bed and illustrated. I illustrated all through my chemo treatment and my radiation treatment and my recovery at home. To be honest, having the distraction of illustrating and a deadline to meet, stopped me from worrying about myself and helped me to have a positive attitude throughout this personal saga.
You can see some of the illustrations from Watching Through The Day, on my portfolio pages and if you click the image, it will open the ipoz Publishing page where you can purchase the book, alternatively, you can click the following link
https://www.ipoz.biz/portfolio-single/watching-through-the-day/
With these two books now complete, it's back to the "drawing board" for me. I am currently illustrating three new books with more to come so watch this space .....
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