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Market

There’s a market this weekend at the Convent in our usual lovely inside spot at the back of the courtyard. Just look for the complex to the right of the bakery. As always the Convent will have all sorts of delicious food, the Children’s Farm will be open near by and our market will have [...]
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Advice: the illustrator’s job – storyboards and roughs

Here’s another response to a question relating to being provided with suggestions for the pictures or a storyboard by the writer: This sounds terrible but I’d rather not ever have suggestions from the author on the visuals. The exception being something vital that is not mentioned in the story, but is intrinsic to it (like the [...]
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Mondoodle 30-08-2010

I’m following a white rabbit right now. It’s having a rest in a cafe to my right and is flying in a balloon on my left. That often happens – an idea or a subject likes to get out in multiple formats for a while until I know it well and know how best to [...]
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Advice: charging for illustrations

I’ve been answering quite a few emails lately seeking advice on aspects of the industry. So I thought I’d put some tailored excerpts here in case anyone else was wondering the same things. Don’t forget, there is always the Getting Published page too which has lots more info and suggestions, especially about whether or not [...]
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Mondoodle 23-8-2010

I’m up in the studio bright and early this morning. It’s one of those beautiful Melbourne winter days where the sky is a delicate blue and the sun fills brittle air. I don’t know if I am imagining it but winter sunlight still looks cold. Perhaps it is just because I know that the wind [...]
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New Book!! And a launch to send it into the world…

Yesterday a box arrived which filled me with great glee. It was the long-awaited advance copies of my newest picture book My Boots In Season which is new and lovely and little and gorgeous! It’s written by Kerryn Pascoe and she will be launching it TOMORROW. (I can’t be there, most unfortunately.) Yes Tomorrow!!! So – if [...]
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Mondoodle & BIG news

Hello lovely friends. Firstly let me apologise for the accidental tuesdoodle. Which isn’t even a word. I was working hard all weekend (hello to everyone at the markets) and then spent the last two days at a school, MGC, in Richmond. Hello awesome girls! We had a very productive and fun two days. Well I [...]
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Mondoodle 09-08-2010

It’s nice to draw without an agenda. I was watching the Goodies tonight, after getting home from uni, and saw Bill and Graham running around in rabbit suits. They do that rather a lot from memory. So I began to doodle, only it seemed more appropriate to draw horns, and when it needed arms, little [...]
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New arrivals!

I have been quiet for a while! After the show I took a little break – the first in a very long time. And have been getting back into a variety of projects slowly. I even had a break from painting although I’m getting twitchy around paintbrushes now – its definitely time to pick them [...]
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Mondoodle 02-08-2010

After three days alternating between couch and bed I’m feeling much better, if not sounding it! I don’t think I’m patient enough to ever get a long-term illness. I was sorry to miss the market and to not get out into the sun today. Winter can have some amazing weather and I saw it all [...]
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