52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 49

Week 49: Purple

52-Week Illustration Challenge Week 48

Week 48: Africa

52-Week Illustration Challenge Weeks 40 to 43

Week 40: Rope

Week 41: Bookshop

Week 42: Door

Week 43: Friend

52 Week Illustration Challenge: Week 38

Week 38: Jump

'The Parachuting Hens.'

52 Week Illustration Challenge: Week 37

Week 37: Queen

This is my illustration 'Queen of the Pond.'

52 Week Illustration Challenge: Week 36

Week 36: Printing

Raining cats and dogs. 

For this week's illustration I wanted to create something that could become elements for a stencil. Later I would like to explore reprinting this design in a variety of colours where the clouds, cats and dogs are in a monotone colour (like this one black on white) on coloured paper OR printed in a variety of colours. 

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52 Week Illustration Challenge: Week 30

Week 30: Home

Mouse's House underneath the veggie patch. 

This was one of those pictures inspiration just hit me and I drew it in bed before I began my day. It however is unfinished and without colour as I ran out of time to complete the illustration before flying to Melbourne.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 29

Week 29: Swing 
This week I wanted to focus on doing a more 'illustrative' type of picture. The illustration is a girl swinging off a rope into water.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 27

Week 27: Bush Countryside
There were a lot of ideas swirling around in my head for this theme. The distant hills, the mid-ground of farmland with its lone paddock tree and leaning on fences made out of wood from local trees are very strong images for me. We may have farmed sheep but a lone cow seemed right for this illustration.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 26

Week 26: San Francisco

For me San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, information technology companies like Cisco and the iconic houses on the tv shows Full House and Charmed.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 25

Week 25: Past

This week I had firm idea that I wanted to paint a pair of dinosaurs and when I sat to sketch the idea was already fully formed in my mind.

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Dinosaur Illustration Ready to Paint

Ready to begin painting the PAST theme illustration on a quiet Saturday night at home alone. With Guardians of the Galaxy 2 playing in the background - cranked up the sound a little bit.

To see complete illustration see here.

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 24

Week 24: Multiculturalism

This week I wanted to show my Polish heritage. This illustration shows the national dress that my aunts, my little sister and I have all worn. My Polish grandparents arrived in Australia in 1950.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 23

Week 23: Texture

This week's illustration comes from the art class I did with Sylvia Marris.

Once I completed the piece I felt wow that has great texture so here is my whimsical painting. This is a style I'd really like to explore again the parring back to shape and line to create images.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 21

Week 21: Red
All around Canberra during autumn most to the colours in the landscape are from the autumn leaves falling. Discovering a flowering eucalypt tree and it's red flowers made a wonderful change. 

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 16

Catch-up Week 16: Experiment
My hair wasn't always blue.
The experiment was also using brown paper and acrylic paint (not used this medium for 20+ years)

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 19

Week 19: Music
The Music Fairy played her lute, she took the notes and placed them on the score.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 14

Week 14: Surprise

What big ears you have Granny! What a surprise it must have been for Little Red Riding Hood to find The Big Bad Wolf in Granny's bed.

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If you are wondering what happened to Week 11-13 they are still on the way. You see progress pictures for Week 11 at the above link.

Laurie Copping Award Winner Annoucement

So thrilled that local Canberra author and illustrator, Tania McCartney was awarded the The Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in the ACT.

Tania is a great supporter of reading, children's literature and other creators of literature. She was the founder of Kids Book Review and 52 Week Illustration Challenge. Tania gives her time in helping others with their craft from speaking at conference, presenting seminars and workshops to answering questions at Ask Tania. She loves talking to children about her stories and gives a great book launch with reading, craft and food. Now while you are thinking wow she does so much let me also point out that she was an ambassador for the national Year of Reading and is a current ambassador for the Chief Minister Reading Challenge in the ACT. 

Tania is a great example of an advocate for reading and children's literature. Congratulations!

 

Tania with Julie Long OAM (President of CBCA ACT Branch)

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 10

Week 10: Weekend

Last week I illustrated a retro housewife with a baked cake. This week the theme continues with a children's birthday party that are generally held on the weekend, this one includes the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. 

I used to love birthday parties when my son was little. I would spend a month or more planning the party with a theme chosen by the both of us. We would have Pin the Tail on the ??? (donkey, puss-in-boots, Pilchard, sail on the pirate ship etc.) I'd make up games or craft based on the theme. We would decorate the house based on the theme and have theme appropriate food. I would cook the cake then supervise my husband who always wanted to decorate the cake. It was sooo much fun.

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