A Grown Up Look at Children’s Doodles Part 2

By heather at 1:49 am on Monday, March 8, 2010

yeondoo jung children's inspired illustrations

Yeondoo Jung creates incredibly surreal scenes inspired by children’s drawings in this collection titled Wonderland. I love this piece titled “Cinderella,” especially the crooked lights! I came across Yeondoo’s work through this article about artists who take a grown-up look at children’s drawings over at BrainPickings.org

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Mumbai Waterfront Property | Part 2

By heather at 1:15 am on Friday, March 5, 2010

heather castles acrylic painting india mumbai waterfront

Here’s a recent look at my painting of a filthy section of waterfront across from the ritziest shopping district in Mumbai. I’ve added mainly neutrals and some lights… not the brightest whites yet, I want to build up the texture and colours first. You can see how it looked before this step here.

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A Grown Up Look at Children’s Doodles Part 1

By heather at 1:42 am on Wednesday, March 3, 2010

dave devries child illustrations ninja

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time… illustrators who use children’s drawings and re-render them with their own style. Dave DevRies over at The Monster Engine stays true to the original child’s drawing, but illustrates them in an adult style. I found DevRies art over at Brainpickings. I think this idea is brilliant, would love to give it a go myself!

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Riley’s Lost Tooth | The books arrived!

By heather at 1:21 am on Monday, March 1, 2010

heather castles riley's lost tooth illustrations

riley's lost tooth children's book cover Eeeeee! So excited, my copies of Riley’s Lost Tooth (Written by Diane Cantrell, Illustrated by moi) arrived in the post! Hera was right into them, opening up each one up, flipping through the pages, then declaring “The End.” I’m really pleased with how they’ve turned out, Brown Books did a great job. Riley’s Lost Tooth now available online at Amazon.com. Book launch party in San Antonio is planned for March 27th… I’ll post details later!

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