#design for children
Dear friends, I’m happy to post here about my new book that was published at the beginning of this month.
“My color is rainbow” is a children’s picture book, written by Agnes Hsu, illustrated and designed by me.
The artwork in this book was created manually in ink and assembled digitally.
“Follow Little White Arch on his journey as he wonders what his color could be. Along the way he meets many colorful characters who help him realize the answer. A playful story about kindness, acceptance, and openness that celebrates how we are not defined by one, but many wonderful characteristics.”
If anyone is interested in buying this book directly from me, you can proceed to one of my shops etsy andbig cartel. I have a very limited amount of books and they all will come signed by me (and can also include a special note if its a present).
Thank you for following along and supporting my projects :)
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snaps of my work lately. Keep learning to silkscreen through screen printing #mycolorisrainbow book illustrations.
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Got my copy of Okido magazine and happy to see my Puddle mirror activity in it! Thank you OKIDO magazine and MAKI minimag :)
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Yesterday I tried silkscreen printing for the first time and fell in love! I can’t wait to use this technique for my future projects. Here are some photos from a two days learning process at Grafishce werkplaats.
This is my first sketch of the artwork. I’m working on some mama/baby related project and wanted to print these elephants as part of it. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible since it was my first silkscreen printing experience ever.
Here is the final digital version, ready to be printed in black as separate layers (part of the preparation process I didn’t know about).
Choosing my colours
Screens!
this is how my design looked on the screen when I was printing the blue layer.
First layer!
And here it is ready! Thinking of sending some of them as presents to friends :)
Grafische werkplaats is closed for summer Holidays now, so I will have to wait a bit until my next screen printing session.
Last Friday I had my first ever kids’ workshop held in Dutch language. I was very nervous that my level of Dutch might not be enough and I might have difficulties communicating with children (who don’t speak any english) but it all went pretty well! It felt very satisfying too, considering that I’ve been living in the Netherlands for the past 8 years.
I’ve also noticed that kids liked hearing my little excuses about not being fluent in their language and asking them to help me learn :)
I was doing this workshop together with Art-s-cool, a cultural organisation that brings together kids and parents to see and make art. This workshop was organised in partnership with Blended festival. Kids were making dioramas that later will be used for the festival’s posters.
Kids split up into groups designing different dioramas about music, dance, food, theatre and other topics they associated with festival.
It was lots of fun and I’m looking forward to the next workshop this month. Here are some of the pictures I took during the workshop.
Rain Rain. Illustration for Maki minimag, the final version was changed quite a bit, but I like this one a lot!
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