Proof copies have arrived and are looking good!
The book will be available to buy in a few weeks. Also look out for the free downloadable worksheets to accompany the book, which I will be posting on this site.
Tag: illustration
Animals in Jumpers…Free Colouring Sheet to Download
This week I’ve been drawing animals in jumpers…
…using pen, coloured pencil and watercolour pencil. I thought they would make fun brooches..
I’m going to use the images for prints and cards and a few other things. The brooches are available on my Etsy shop, BearsGetCrafty. Also, as they I enjoyed colouring them in so much, I thought I’d share the fun… Click here to download the colouring sheet.
A short story (sort of) in pictures…
A series of illustrations I made in my sketchbook last week. They may develop into a story. In the meantime, read the text and make up the rest yourself..
Make Your Own Pug in a Box
Download and make a pug in a box. Then give it to someone. 🙂
Click here for the free PDF to download.
If you need help with how to make your Pug in a Box, visit my Hug in a Box page and follow the method there.
Please share, make pugs, give them to people, take photos and show me.
Copyright is the property of Julie Wilson. Download for personal use only.
“You go round…”
A quick round up of those cat bothering bears for those of you who haven’t seen them all.
“Do you think it’s dangerous?” “I don’t know, but it’s blinking huge. Let’s get out of here.”
“Don’t look down.”
“Don’t move! It’s spotted us!”
Stew Magazine
I’m very happy to have an illustration in the current copy of ‘Stew’ (which is an excellent magazine for kids). 🙂
You can subscribe to Stew here: stewmagazine.co.uk and follow them on Twitter here.
Hardback (with cat).
Sunday lolling in the conservatory with the cat and a good book. ‘Astro Poetica’ in hardback. It’s so nice to hold it’s putting a big smile on my face. The cover is shiny black and silver. It has a couple of extra poems and illustrations and if you’re quick you’ll get a piece of free art (by me) when you buy it.
You may have noticed that Leo modelled for one of the illustrations.
Astro Poetica
This lovely thing landed on my doorstep last week. 🙂 ‘Astro Poetica’, a volume of charming poems about space written by Dom Conlon, with some pictures by me. It’s full of love and fun and aliens and planets and solar systems..and I managed to sneak my cat in there somewhere too.
As well as being a rather beautiful, nice to hold thing ‘Astro’ is the first time I’ve seen myself in print. And, by gum, I think I look rather good. (My work, obviously. Not actual me.) I’m immodestly pleased with myself. And with Dom. I think we did good. And to think, when Dom asked me to illustrate it I said “Don’t you think you should ask someone who knows what they’re doing?” I’m pleased he ignored me.
I think children will love this book. I hope they read the ‘Things to Think’ and ‘Things to Do’ sections and write some poetry of their own. I have a child on loan at the moment, so I’ll be testing it out later. I know adults will like it, because I do and I am one.
‘Astro Poetica’ is published by Inkology. If you look here Inkology.co.uk you’ll find lots of free and lovely stories and poems for children. You can follow @InkologyStories on Twitter as well.
You can get a copy of ‘Astro Poetica’ from Amazon. It is also available on Kindle from Amazon or for your ipad from itunes and there is a rather lovely limited edition hardback version, which has extra content (also on Amazon).
Rotring
I’ve been busy working on a new illustration project lately (featuring Bears, unsurprisingly) or rather, busy trying to work on a new… ripping stuff up, getting cross, having no ideas and drawing in a very uptight fashion. If you are familiar with my scribblings you will know that my style is generally quite loose.. messy even. I use a dip pen and ink and water and pencils and crayons and paint and brushes and fingers… I’ve also got to the point where I think everything I draw or paint looks like crap. (Sorry, I swear and it will probably get worse than that.)
I had a bit of a moan to a very dear friend about how useless I am this morning. Sorry. You know who you are. x And decided to put the whole thing on hold for a bit and refresh my brain with completely different things, ie not art. Having a general clear up of my studio* (*corner of the conservatory) I found an old Rotring pen. 0.2 nib. I’ve had it for years, (slight guilt here) it was given to me by a good friend when her Dad died, as she thought I would use it. 0.2 nib. That’s very fine. And fiddly. I’ve used fibre tip type pens that are very fine and not liked them. I like the variety of strokes that different pressure makes with pencils and nib pens. And wash. And rubbing things with my fingers. And flicking paint and ink about. Anyhow, I thought it’s not really my sort of thing but I’ll see if it works and maybe give it to a friend…
So I drew this (work in progress). In spite of being really hung up about drawing anything it sort of worked. I think it’s to do with being relaxed because you’re not expecting anything. Whatever, the concentration kicked in. I think I’ll keep the pen. And play about with it for a bit.
Bears can wait. But I’ll be back to them soon.
If you want to look at the drawing more closely click on the photo for a larger view.
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