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The Red Poppy |
Here are a few illustrations I have done for children's books. I work in a variety of mediums but always looking for new ways to get a visual image across. I'm experimenting with 3d builds, collage and watercolour in Photoshop at the moment- you can see the results with Fairy Glad which is now out in an anthology 'Read Me Another One Please'
For 'The Red Poppy' written by David Hill (Scholastic March 2012). I worked in oil paint, chalk pastel and photoshop to create the illustrations for this very special ANZAC book. 'Far Far from Home' by Elizabeth Pulford published by Scholastic is created almost entirely in digital collage.
Wearable Wonders is a non fiction book all about wearable art inspiration and creation and is a must have for the home and classroom! Ghoulish Get -Ups is the follow up companion and with these two books, you'll have everything you need for costuming on a shoestring!
If you'd like to see more of my work go to my online portfolio here
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from Itiiti's Gift by Melanie Drewery |
and here are all are the books I've illustrated and some that I've written...
Published Works &
Awards
Novels
• Verity’s Truth Fifi Colston (Scholastic) 2003 Junior
Fiction Storylines Notable Book Award
• Janie Olive : A Recipe for
Disaster Fifi Colston (Scholastic) 2005 Junior
Fiction Storylines Notable Book Award
• Glory Fifi Colston (Scholastic) 2009 Junior
Fiction Storylines Notable Book
Award Finalist for The Esther Glen Award
LIANZA 2010
• Wild Cards: Fifi Colston - Tessa Duder YA
Award Finalist 2016
Non Fiction
• Fifi's Crafty Arts (book one) Fifi
Colston (Scholastic)1995
• Fifi's Crafty Arts (book two) Fifi Colston (Scholastic)1995
• Fifi's Festive Fun Fifi Colston (Scholastic)1995
• Wearable Wonders Fifi Colston (Scholastic)
2013 Storylines Notable Book Award Non Fiction
Finalist New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014 & Winner LIANZA 2014 Elsie Locke
Award Non Fiction
• Ghoulish Get Ups Fifi Colston (Scholastic)
2014 Storylines Notable Book Award
• Torty and the Soldier- Jennifer Beck & Fifi Colston
Finalist NZCYA book Awards 2017 Storylines
Notable Book Award 2017
Inclusion
in Anthologies
• Poem 'The Schoolbag' - A Treasury of NZ
Poems for Children (Random House) 2014
• Short story 'Fairy Glad Makes a Friend'
- Read me Another One, Please! (Whitcoulls) 2012
Magazine
• Verse
'n Visual - humour: verse column published monthly from 1995-2003
Next Magazine (84 poems in total)
• About Kids Magazine
(ACP) regular columnist and illustrator
• What Now Magazine 1984-
86 art director, writer and illustrator
Other Illustrated
titles- Trade and Education
• The
Old Man and The Cat- Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls) 1984
• Mr
Magee Comes Home for his Tea- Janet Slater-Redhead (Scholastic)1984
• Rain-
Barbara Hill (Scholastic)1984
• The
Oldest Garden in China- Anthony Holcroft (Whitcoulls) 1985
• Not
Without Randolph- Ruth Corrin (Scholastic)1993
• Midnight
Feast- Elizabeth Pulford (Scholastic)1996
• Get
Real Paddy Manson- Ruth Corrin (Harper Collins)1996
• This
Tail- Brosie Browne (Lands End)1996
• It's
My Bread- Diana Noonan (Learning Media)1997
• Dear
Tom- Diana Noonan (Lands End)1997
• Mystery
Valley- John Parsons (Nelson ITP)2000
• The
Great Egg Problem- Quentin Flynn (Nelson ITP)2000
• Going
Places- Margaret Cahill (Learning Media) 2000
• Brother
Trouble- Anna Kenna (Learning Media )2001
• The
Great New Zealand Activity Book (NZ Illustrators’ Guild) 2000
• Toroa
(The Albatross) Hannah Rainforth (Huia) 2001
• Kei
te Papa Kainga- Te Waari Carekeek (Huia)2003
• Nga
Taonga O Te Kaitiora- Wiremu Grace (Huia) 2002
• Te
Takaro Tirama – Robina Broughton (Huia)2003
• Te
Ao Ahuahanga - Chelsea Wharepapa (Hui) 2003
• My
Brother- Sally Sutton (Learning Media) 2003
• Tylers
Tower- Vivienne Joseph (Learning Media) 2004
• My
Name is Laloifi- Dan Taulapa McMullin (Learning Media) 2005
• Waka
Wairua- Yvonne Morrison (Reed) 2005
• Finding
Tibs- Sian Burling-Claridge (Learning Media) 2006
• Papa’s
Island- Melanie Drewery (Reed) 2006
• Itiiti’s
Gift - Melanie Drewery (Reed) 2006 Storylines Notable Book Award
• School
Journal Illustrations and covers for Scholastic, Learning
Media, Shortlands, McMillan, Longman Paul, TVNZ
Enterprises
• I
Mind One Time- Hugh McDowell (Stevens Publishing)2010
• A
Place to Sleep- Andrea Foot (Learning Media) 2012
• The
Red Poppy- David Hill (Scholastic) 2012 Storylines
Notable Book Award
• Far
Far From Home - Elizabeth Pulford (Scholastic) 2012
• Torty
and The Soldier - Jennifer Beck- Scholastic 2017 Storylines Notable Book Award
• Grandad’s
Guitar- Janine McVeigh -Makaro Press