Behind the Scenes of Charlie’s Dirt Day – PART 6 – final art

A final sneak peek inside the finished pages of Charlie's Dirt Day...This image is one of my favourites. It was really fun to work on and until it was completely finished I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out.I hope you've enjoyed the preview of the book as well as some of my process over the last few weeks. If you want to see more, you'll hav ...

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Here's another peek at some of the final art from my next book.The Character of Charlie was based on a sketch I had done when I was traveling through Europe. At one point, my husband and I were living in Paris and I was drawing more than I ever have in all my life. I did a lot of sketches of children at that time and there was one in particular tha ...

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This illustration is probably my favourite one from Charlie's Dirt Day because I included lots of personal touches. Several of the characters in this spread made appearances in my first picture book, Bye, Bye Butterflies, such as the lady in the yellow cardigan on the left, the little boy pulling the wagon and the little girl in the right corner wi ...

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Here's my finished piece for the 'It's a Jungle Out There' illustration show, on now at the EPCOR CENTRE's Ledge Gallery.If anyone's interested, you can see my sketches for this project HERE, and I posted photos of my painting process below.  ...

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