I have to actively remind myself to leave time to stop and play with materials. Like lying around reading, it is actively part of the job, but rarely feels like it. It’s closely related to remembering to do studies for … Continue reading
This follows on from yesterday’s post about the structural role of triangles in editing and silhouettes. It’s about the points that connect and strengthen fragile pieces of a design (or, if you wish to extend the metaphor in yesterday’s post, … Continue reading
First: Current events have made it a little tricky for authors & publishers to celebrate new books and get them to you. This book comes out in May, but is available for preorder now. Please consider doing so! A month ago, … Continue reading
A new cover is out in the world! Welcome to the Bitch Bubble, a collection of stories by Lauren Dixon, is now available for preorder (consult your local bookstore, but failing one of those, see also B&N, Amazon), and will be … Continue reading
A quick summary of the February blog posts (not including Patreon posts): Read and Seen — January 2020 — books and movies (and art) Howl’s Moving Contracts — Diana Wynne Jones conference proceedings Loving the Tools — scathing personal critiques … Continue reading
A trial silhouette sun-print (cyanotype) from an ongoing fascination with metamorphosis in fairytales. I was trying to get different degrees of exposure on a cyanotype, in this case by using two silhouettes, one cut out of black paper (the bird) … Continue reading
“One English village. Two thousand years of stories. Best-selling legends of Australian fantasy Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins have teamed up in this collection of 7 incredible stories, all original and never-before published.” I’ve had the honour of creating the … Continue reading
This is a cut paper piece (c 8×8 inches) that I made for Light Grey Art Lab‘s exhibition TOBEYOU: personal narratives, tales and memory. It is called “Into the Woods”, and is about growing up reading fairytales when you live in … Continue reading
Very recently I had the great pleasure of doing my first illustration for Strange Horizons. It was for Philip A. Suggar’s surreal and charming story “London Calling“. Some of my patrons had the chance to see early progress pictures and … Continue reading
The Illustration Friday topic is “mischief”, which has a rather softened meaning in modern English. The illustration, however, turned into the love child of The Cheshire Cat and Tailypo, and other things that hang head-down from the trees and whisper … Continue reading
Kathleen Jennings 