More summertime fun!

Another  #splash
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SURPRISE! SCBWI Draw this!

This month prompt is Surprise!
Here are two of my sketches:

Surprise!
copyright 2017
Andrea K. Lawson

Surprise! Miniature Pets-in-A-Box
by Andrea K. Lawson
copyright 2017

Love! #sbwidrawthis

Childhood, Dream with Cuddly Blanket

Flying on Cuddly Blanket by Andrea K. Lawson copyright 2016

3 or 4 Wolves

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD MEETS THE WOLF

 

 

 

 

several versios that I tried for fun looking for a very sneaky wolf?

I'm looking forward to the SCBWI Summer Conference!!!

This will be my first time attending the L.A. conference. I was born in Hollywood so it will be  nice to visit my family as well. I'm going to LACMa and will definitely see "Levitated Mass".
https://www.scbwi.org/events/44th-annual-scbwi-summer-conference-in-los-angeles/

I'll be bringing my picture book dummy for It's Raining Cats and Frogs: Folk Sayings About Rain

From Around the World

"It's raining shrimp in Thailand"

Shine for the SCBWI Jan/Feb inspiration challenge:

The SCBWI Bulletin is in black and white but I did it originally in color, so here are both. I was remembering the Waldorf School lantern festivals that we use to take our daughters to.

 Shine

Ink and watercolor

Shine

Black and white version

2013 SCBWI Tomie dePaola Award

This was my entry this year for the Tomie dePaola Award.
Tomie's directions were to  illustrate the poem, Sneeze  with  an 8 by 8"inch composition
using any color or medium. The illustration was to target the 2 months to 2 year age group!
You can find the other entries in the Unofficial Gallery of the Tomie dePaola Award 
and see the winners at http://www.scbwi.org/winner-of-the-2014-tomie-depaola-award-is-announced/

Sneeze

My black and white  illustration of Little Women won an honorable mention from Tomie dePaola last year. It was a challenge to have to use only black and white!

 

http://www.andreaklawson.com/page/httpwwwandreaklawsoncomillustration

This is the 2013 First Prize winning illustration from Akiko White :

Here is my friend Rowena Russell's entry, I love the simplicity and idea of the sneezing snowman!

Illustration Friday: Travel

 Traveling by Air

On a Visit

Illustration Friday

Worn

Illustration Friday!

Worn

 

 

Worn Bear

Illustration Friday; Train

 

 

Wedding Train

Wild!

 

 

Mr. Tiger goes wild!

 

Illustration Friday

 

Wings

New Illustrations, still debating Seaweederella or Swimerella

               Swimerella Rides to The Ball in my twist on Grimm's Fairy Tale, Cinderella. In my version, Cinderella is a mermaid, Swimerella or Seaweederella.

 

     Last weekend I had a fabulously inspiring time attending the Society of Children's Writer's and Illustrators Western Washington conference.

As part of the conference, I took a master illustrators intensive with Scott Magoon, Art Director, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and  Lucy Ruth Cummins, art director with Simon and Shuster. Both are also children's book illustrators.  The two directors really got across their excitement and love of children's books. Our assignment was to create an illustration from Grimm's Fairy Tales, with a twist. This was fun and also crazy to see all of the variations from my Seaweederella  to an adorable  fluff ball monster Little Red Riding hood, ( Ben Clanton)  and Robin's nutty Rapunzel with a beard.

Working with variations on fairy tales is a fun way to expand both  visual and literary ideas.

These drawings led to some new illustrations for my portfolio which are now on view at my website gallery. http://www.andreaklawson.com/gallery/illustrations/

I named my underwater Cinderella, Seaweederella, thinking that Cinderella was named for her proximity to the cinders and that Seaweederella  would be all covered in ocean muck and seaweed. I had a suggestion  to name her Swimerella and  think it has a nice sound to it.  For now, I won't say who the suggestion came  from as that might sway public opinion. I'll give the person credit if wanted,  later.