I am Anna from Sydney. I grew up on a hobby farm with lots of animals to keep me company. I would spend hours sitting on the side of the dam crushing up rocks to make colours. I have always had a keen interest in the weird and wonderful and have a colourful personality.

It wasn’t till my marriage was in it’s final days in 2012 that I really had a desire to paint. I have painted ever since. I know in my heart I will never give up. Some months are great and I may sell up to 7 paintings and others I sell none. I decided to start the Children’s Book Illustration Diploma because of my child like style in my works. I do paint big so at first it was a struggle being disciplined enough to follow the course guidelines of size. I am loving the course and feel so proud to have received the feedback I have.

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Here is some of my artwork

My puppy Yoda. Acrylic on canvas. 100cm by 100cm

Continuing our dedicated week of Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course artwork, we have some wonderful pieces by student Estelle van Eeden. Estelle has created three beautiful illustrations – two collage pieces and her double page spread for Row, Row, Row your Boat assignment. Each of these illustrations would bring joy to any child, we hope they make you smile too!

 

We are starting a dedicated week of Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course artwork as we are receiving some amazing pieces and we feel the need to share some of these on our blog for our readers to enjoy.

Starting off the week is student Dean Jones has created a wonderful illustration for the ‘Sebastian’s Sink city’ task. Dean has chosen a Wild West theme using rubber gloves to depict cacti and detergent bottles for the towns hotel, sheriff house, general store and saloon! It is very ingenious and we love it! We have added the full illustration below along with two close up photos to show it in more detail. Well done Dean for a fabulous illustration!

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Haneen Alemam.

 

There are no real words to describe how stunningly beautiful this illustration is by student Nola Sindel. So much work has gone into this illustration and her use to watercolour is exquisite. Nola created this whilst working on our Botanical Painting Diploma Course and it has to be one of the best illustrations that a student has created. We absolutely love it. What do you think?!

We have a blog post today aimed at our Illustrators. Student Linda Tordoff created both of these illustrations for tutor Maggy Roberts whilst studying on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. We have added three close up images of the ‘Cow Jumping over the Moon’ illustration as we wanted to show the paint strokes that Linda has created in her work. It’s both painterly and illustrative at the same time – simply stunning and very clever. We hope you like them as much as we do!

 

 

Today’s blog post is a bit of a ‘wow’ post! I know our readers and going to view student Belinda Cullen’s watercolours and exclaim – ‘wow’ whilst viewing them! We did! Her studies are simply exquisite and Belinda has a beautiful style of painting and handles the medium superbly. Her practice studies of eyes and ears are almost pieces of completed artwork in themselves. We hope that you all find them as inspiring and beautiful as we do. If you would like to learn how to paint Watercolour similar to this…head on over and take a look at our Watercolour Diploma Course tutored by professional watercolourist Jem Bowden.

A wonderful illustration today by Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course student Elaine Macintyre. We love the concept here, the poor dragon seems to ahve had a mishap with the bears cottage! We do hope they can put out the fire quickly! I think the dragon does feel very sorry though. What do you think?

A stunning image today painted by student Margaret Kane who is on the Drawing and Painting Diploma course. The painting has been completed in oils on canvas and has been drawn and painted beautifully. The light is stunning. The glass bottles feel very three dimensional which is no mean feat! Have you tried to draw or paint a glass yet? If you havent give it a go. To make it even more challenging fill the glass half way with water. Let us know how you get on!

This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Monique Bailey.