Close up of my back cover watercolour illustration for "Honest John Pine", a golf book fiction written by Vince Wheeler. #golf #GolfIllustration #watercolour

Anne Sharp was friends with Jane Austen. She died in 1853. Her address was perhaps a pleasant reminder of that friendship.

Here's the cover for US author Vince Wheeler's book "Honest John Pine", with my watercolour illustration. So happy that Vince asked and trusted me to create the front and back covers. 🎨⛳️📚 #golf #GolfIllustration #watercolour

So happy to share a watercolour illustration I created for author Vince Wheeler's book "Honest John Pine", a 1940s golf fiction I can't wait to read. ⛳️📚 #golf #GolfIllustration #watercolour

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books: pls credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are helping to boost them, but also shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

Hello everyone! I am Josh, a poet, performer and workshop leader. Do please visit my website for lots of fun, FREE poems and resources: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk. Below is one of my best known poems, which is one of the many on my site. I hope you enjoy, and do please gimme a follow! #EduSky #poetry

Here’s to enjoying the longer Spring and Summer days ahead. 🌷🌷👩🏻💜🐺🌷🌷 My watercolour illustration of another scene with the girl and the dog. #colour_collective @clr_collective #CCStudioViolet #sandrarussellart #kidlitart #watercolour

Two years ago yesterday I posted the first #NewIllustrationoftheDay on a platform I abandoned the day after the US election. Since the first I've shared 746 images from as many picturebooks (counting Xmas arrangements) - some 500 on Bluesky. If you enjoy this, perhaps encourage a friend to follow?

‪ In the rather unlikely event that you are eager to know more about what I'm up to, check out my relaunched website www.nicolettejones.com for books, blog, bio, events and gallery. Many thanks to those who can be bothered. This photo shows me dipping George Eliot's pen. @rsliterature.bsky.social

Happy Mother's Day! 🪲🌷

Looking forward to Spring with another of my dog and girl watercolour illustrations for this week's #colour_collective , using #CCAndroidGreen . Wishing you all a happy weekend! 🐺🍦👩🏻🇮🇹 #colour_collective #dog #sandrarussellart #kidlitart #watercolour #illustration

The Persian Sibyl, 1647-8, by Guercino, Italian Baroque painter active in Bologna, died #OTD 1666; the pose and exotic costume of Guercino’s Sibyl inspired Mengs, Benjamin West, and Louise Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun. Musei Capitolini

A post budget #cartoon from the reject pile

More recognition for women artists, please.

Metamorphosis: Apollo and Daphne, c. 1625, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, great Italian Baroque sculptor & architect; died #OTD 1680. Galleria Borghese

The paper artworks of Asya Kozina who also designs life-sized sculptures, wedding dresses and masks, 100% out of paper #WomensArt

In amongst the Lancashire day bookfest….my art

My coloured pencil version of @StudioTeaBreak.bsky.social’s #PortraitChallenge suggestion to draw ‘Thyra Elisabeth’, painted by her sister Ellen Thesleff, the original was created in 1892. #sketch #drawing #portrait #DrawnOnTheFrontOfAnEnvelope

Catching up with another fab #PortraitChallenge set by @studioteabreak.bsky.social. My pencil #sketch of Portrait of Laurie Morrocco, original was oils on canvas painted by his father, Alberto Morrocco, 20th century. The eyes were so tiny to draw… #DrawnOnTheBackOfAnEnvelope #drawing #portrait

Junes the Florist, Southport

Oh my goodness…

I’ve pre-ordered my copy and can’t wait to read it! Another gem from Stephen Proctor to add to my bookshelf. 📚⛳️🏌🏻‍♀️ #golf #GolfHistory #GolfLit #WomensGolf

"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers! Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡 Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!

Happy August all!⛱️🌈🌞 Thank you for following 🧡 !

Every day the world presents you with the wrong battles, designed to waste your energy so you don't fight the right ones.

I will never, ever get over this.

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Having fun drawing @studioteabreak.bsky.social ’s #PortraitChallenge. 🥴📖✍️ My black & white pencil on brown recycled paper version of “Strong smell” character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt circa 1770-1781 cast in lead-tin alloy. Victoria and Albert Museum #sketch #sketchbook #art

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ ‘Strong smell’ character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sometime between 1770-1781, cast in lead-tin alloy Victoria & Albert Museum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_X... Larger image: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

The best tip (imo) for illustrated books: never repeat what's in the text in the image. Always add something to the narrative in the image. Think of the art and words as two widgets in a machine with slightly different jobs that work together to make the machine work.

‘The Royal Blimp’ for today’s #throwbackthursday #flyingmachine #airship #art #artist #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #illustration #fantasy #cartoon #fantasyart

My coloured pencil sketch version of @StudioTeaBreak.bsky.social #PortraitChallenge - ‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955, via @ahistoryinart. #TheDailySketch #portrait #sketchbook

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ ‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_... via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social

Oops! 🐭 Little peek at an illustration for our seventh #Adventuremice book, launching this October ✍️

Thurday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Young Man Reading, painted by Octavian Smigelschi in 1892. Brukenthal National Museum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia... via @wikivictorian.bsky.social

My Waddle-on-Sea penguin is out for all to see! ✨🐧🧣✈️✨ It’s for a fab Wild in Art trail raising awareness and funds for @havenshospices.bsky.social in Southend-on-Sea. Tag me if you spot Captain P. Penguin in Leigh-on-Sea! Wilson James are my sponsors. #WaddleOnSea #WildInArt #LeighOnSea #penguin

UK artist Laura Knight, Untrodden Sands, 1912 #WomensArt #Summer

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Portrait of Louise d'Épinay, drawn in pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard around 1759 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-%C...

Sketch I did whilst visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum (the home of the Bronte family). #Bronte #Haworth #Yorkshire #drawing #art #artist #traditionalart #blackandwhiteart #pendrawing #pensketch #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #urbansketching #urbandrawing #sketching #sketch #doodle

#cartoon about freezing too obsolete for the modern world

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Australian Robert Ingpen, now 88. Sampling exceptional draughtsmanship from his illustrated Alice. Posting for the 160th anniversary intermittent Alice illustrations by living artists from breathtaking work prompted by Carroll’s book. @thestorymuseum.bsky.social #Alice

*** PLR alert *** Don't forget to register your books for Public Lending Right before 30 June folks! #kidlitUK

Clip of my painting process creating the Albyn School tartan for the “All One Clan” Wild In Art sculpture event in aid of Clan Cancer Support called The BookBench Trail. It’s at the Westburn Park in #Aberdeen for several weeks. #TheBookBenchTrail #OpenUpWithClan #SandraRussellArt #WildInArt

I painted “All One Clan” for The BookBenchTrail that is at Westburn Park, in #Aberdeen. In aid of Clan Cancer Support. My Wild In Art sculpture is sponsored by Albyn School and features it’s school tartan, seen below. 🟦🟨🛋🟥🟩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TheBookBenchTrail #OpenUpWithClan #WildInArt

This #cartoon was published in The Oldie... #diningout #restaurant #ripoff

Drawing @studioteabreak.bsky.social’s #PortraitChallenge whilst on a rocking train going backwards. 📖✍️😄🛤 My coloured pencil version of Portrait of the Painter Hans Massmann, painted in oil and metallic paint on canvas by Egon Schiele in 1909. #sketching #DailySketch

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Portrait of the Painter Hans Massmann, painted in oil and metallic paint on canvas by Egon Schiele in 1909 egonschieleonline.org/works/painti... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Sc... via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social

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