June 22, 2011
Here they are… finally! Every year (for the past 3 years anyway) I have been making personalized bookmarks for each of my kid’s teachers. I never actually posted them online since I was making them in a bit of a different style.
This year, I decided to please ME!! hehehe So I did one (middle one, my version of the Little Prince on his planet) and then I had to do one with the fox. After that I figure… humm.. what if I made a little princess… could be fun too. So I did (my version) of the Princess and the frog. Since those are for teachers, I think maybe some people would like to use them (print, write the teachers/child name, laminate, cut) so I may actually try to open my shop soon and add them!!! For now all the quotes are in French, but will translate them and put an English version in my shop. Now just have to find some time to work on that!!! hehehe. Cheers and … bonnes vacances!
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Voici mes signets pour les professeurs de cette année… ouff… de justesse. Je suis assez heureuse car même si ca fait 3 ans que je les fabriques pour eux, c’est la première année ou je les illustres vraiment dans mon style de collage digital. J’ai commencé par ma version du Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry (celle au milieu), et après j’ai voulu faire une version avec le renard… j’aime tellement cette partie de l’histoire… et finallement bien un prince sans princesse, non là ce n’est pas juste! Voilà donc ma version de la princesse et la grenouille. Vais ouvrir ma boutique en ligne sous peu!! Je sais que c’est un peu tard pour cette année mais l’an prochain, si vous aimez, vous pourrez acheter le tout et les personnaliser avec le nom des profs ainsi que le nom de vos petits anges. Voilà, bonnes vacances!
March 18, 2011
Cultivate is the theme of this week on IF. Funny thing, I began doing this illustration early on this week. I knew I wanted to illustrate about ideas, dreams we have, projects that are in our head but mostly in our heart. Sooo important to cultivate our dreams. One of the dreams that grow in my head is… to make a children book (make = write, illustrate and have it publish). It’s in the first pages of my dream-book. And I think the dandelion will soon fly…
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Cultiver. Voilà le thème de IF (Illustration Friday) de cette semaine. Étrangement j’avais déjà commencé cette illustration en début de semaine. Quelque chose qui représenterait les idées, les rêves qui habitent notre tête mais surtout notre coeur. Et un de ces rêves c’est de faire un livre pour enfant. Dois-je préciser… faire = écrire, illustrer et … publier. Je crois que le moment est venu… le pissenlit a été bien cultivé… l’aigrette peu s’envoler.
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April 8, 2009
Really really happy with the result of this illustration I did for the cover of the novel The Flight of the Wooden Dancer, by South-African author Yusuf Manjoo. It has been published by Autumn Light. It is a very inspiring book. You can find it on Amazon.com or at Barnes and Noble. Here is a small excerpt about the story:
- Book cover illustration for The Flight of the Wooden Dancer
Two artists fly from two corners of the world to Vienna to unearth the mystery of the father of romantic music Beethoven’s lost ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. They are like marionettes pulled by the strings of Beethoven, always looking up to the sky to identify the invisible hands surrounding the series of coincidences which draw them together. In the city of music all artists are drawn to the fire of Prometheus, rising toward the sun, turning around the horizon in circles until man lies suspended between the spinning earth and the dizzy sky. In this fantastic exploration into romantic relationships the artists’ reality tends ever closer to magic realism as their stories merge in a climatic rhyming symphony.
