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Frances McKay Illustration
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White Ravens Bologna Exhibition

Donough O Malley is very happy to announce his inclusion in the International Youth Librarys White Raven exhibition in Bologna. The International Youth Library, based in Munich, is the largest libra...

21 mar 12 1 person likes this

Jane Eccles Little Fidgets

To kick in March with some hopes of Spring and sunshine, Jane has provided us with some bright and fun illustrations she did for a company called Little fidgets. Little Fidgets is a company running F...

01 mar 12

The Play’s the Thing or The Problem of What to Draw

I was always told that I should keep a sketchbook; it is a discipline, a resource, a vital tool. Good advice, no doubt, but I have never kept one. I’m not confident, I can’t lose myself enough, to st...

10 feb 12

Bee Willeys Rory McRory

Bee Willey shares with us some of the artwork for the re-launched book Rory McRory. The story by Sandra Horn, and illustrations by Bee, was originally released by by Hodder Wayland in 1998. It will b...

02 feb 12

RINGO THE RAVEN

A new Year and a new book illustrated by Henning Lohlein. This cute little story is by the author Manfred Mai and published by the suitably named Ravensburger in Germany. Ringo the Raven is differen...

24 jan 12

Happy New Year !

Happy New Year All !Illustration by Henning Lohlein

06 jan 12

Merry Christmas!

Its that time of year again in case you hadnt noticed, so all of us here at Frances McKay want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year with a selection of seasonal illustrations. These...

21 dec 11

Tom Morgan-Jones War on Terror, the iPhone app

For the last five years TerrorBull Games have published board games - specifically satirical and subversive board games. Last year we met a French vegan anarchist and artificial intelligence speciali...

13 dec 11

Hennings handsome Mr Fox

Julia Donaldson, childrens laureate and author of the Gruffalo, chose "My name is Mr Fox" written by Shen Roddie and illustrated by Henning Löhlein, amongst her top ten favourite recent pictu...

29 nov 11

The Peoples Book Prize 2011/12

Bee Willeys The Mouse who saved Egypt written by Karim Alrawi and published by Tradewind Books has been entered into the childrens books section of The Peoples Book Prize. Heres a message from B...

21 nov 11

Images 35

Its that time of the year again when the great and good in British Illustration pop up in the A.O.Is IMAGES annual. Judgement on number 36 is out soon, while IMAGES 35 recently had its private view i...

04 nov 11

VG Lees Guest Post

I am a writer, but for the last two years I’ve also been a stand-up comedian. At the age of fifty my first novel ‘The Comedienne’ was published, ten years later in my sixtieth year a friend enrolled ...

28 oct 11 2 people like this

Carey Morning - Mysterious Births

What a mystery! We give birth to our stories - conceived in what impenetrable realms? - and they fly off into the world, a few hundred words, flapping black and white. If we are very very lucky some...

10 oct 11 1 person likes this

Going to Mecca

Going to Mecca, my first full-size picture book written by Na’ima B Roberts with publisher Frances Lincoln, is nearly ready to go to print! Through poetry and pictures the book takes us on a pilgrima...

07 oct 11 3 people like this

The Big Draw 2011

As part of the Big Draw 2011, a number of Illustrators in Bristol U.K. will be holding an event this Saturday 8th October. Brillustration, is a loose group of Bristol based Illustrators who regularly...

04 oct 11 3 people like this

Tom Morgan-Jones - Free Print & Play Game

Ive been inking away in the TerrorBull Games bunker recently. And the result of these fevered sessions is our 5th free print and play game. There have been four before this? I hear you cry. Oh yes, ...

26 sep 11 2 people like this

Small Change for Stuart

Last February I finished illustrating a book by author Lissa Evans called Small Change for Stuart. I drew on A4 drawing paper, a pad of which I bought from Trago Mills (a department shop in Falmouth)...

20 sep 11 5 people like this

Donough O Malleys editorial work

When not drawing cuddly creatures or pesky kids, I spend my time thrashing out some editorial illustrations for a number of publications. The approach couldnt be more different from illustrating book...

14 sep 11 4 people like this

?Nichts fuer Weicheier?.

In September my latest book (cover) is going to be released. This is my first book cover for 10-year-old boys. When Maya Geis, my editor from Oetinger Publishing House called me on the phone I was ve...

09 sep 11 3 people like this

The Pink Place

I have drawn two designs for a card which Im doing for The Pink Place in Basingstoke. This is a charity which offers free support,information and complementary therapies to people who have or have ha...

06 sep 11 1 person likes this

Childrens Book Rally

 Throughout September the wonderful Illustration Rally will be running a Childrens Book Rally. This is one to enter! Make no mistake there is a nice prize for the winner but the real beauty...

31 aug 11 2 people like this

Jack and Jill

Having completed my first book while pregnant, eight weeks after Alfie was born it was time to tackle book number two, Jack and Jill. Im not sure how I managed to do this. My candle was thoroughly b...

19 aug 11 2 people like this

Meerkat Smiles, (I hope!)

Recently I have been very happily sketching meerkats, for a possible new project!! Frances rang me up one day to ask, “How do you feel about drawing meerkats?” I answered, “Well, I’d definitely like...

17 aug 11 1 person likes this

I’m an Ape-Man

(Click on the images to enlarge the illustrations) I first met Jane Goodall at Heathrow airport with the publisher Michael Neugebauer. Michael had already published The Chimpanzee Family Book with Ja...

11 aug 11 1 person likes this

The Electricity of Ideas - D J Connell on Creativity

I’m a novelist and write books for a living. But my first love was illustration. I can’t remember learning how to draw. It was something that fell from the sky and landed in my lap.I was never formal...

03 aug 11 2 people like this

School for Princes, and the Mouse Who Saved Egypt

The Mouse who saved Egypt will be published by Tradewind Books in July 2011 in the US and Canada, September 2011 in the UK. Tradewind are small but publish interesting stuff and have a fab typographe...

30 jul 11 1 person likes this

The Guardian - Buy of the day!

Just as I am gluing the word “end” on the final page of “A Frisbee to Fly”, the latest of Secret Seed Society books, I was very excited to hear that they have been featured on the Guardian as the “bu...

26 jul 11 1 person likes this

Latitude Festival, and lots of ink

Its been a bit crazy manic recently as Ive been doing all sorts with The Geography Collective - We are a collective of Geography activists, teachers, academics, artists and guerrillas. We’ve come...

16 jul 11 1 person likes this

Scribblemania at St Edmunds

Author and illustrator Chris Mould visited St Edmunds Catholic Primary School in Godalming and did Something Wickedly Weird – He stepped into their world, took them back to a time when he was seven ...

14 jul 11 1 person likes this

49 Brilliant Picture Books from the past 5 years as chosen by Award Winning Illustrators

This post by Zoe Toft featured on Playing by the Book back in April this year. Its so good we are putting it up again for those of you that missed it the first time - Enjoy! At the start of this ...

12 jul 11 4 people like this

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