Reading is magic — Lauren Saunders Illustration

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Illustration competition entry for New England Illustration Prize, 2024

Watercolour, gouache, pencil, digital.

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All images © Lauren Saunders 2024

Some PPP course homework. An exercise in buildings as mass - one palette, 2 moods.
I had so much fun doing this one!
If you want to do a really fun illustration course and learn tonnes along the way, check out @margrete_lamond's wonderful Pitch Perfe

I know it's Love Your Bookshop Day, and while I haven't gotten to a bookshop (yet), I did visit the local library this morning, and came home with this lot. After scanning the first five, the librarian pulled The Dictionary Story out from the returns

A fun visit to Russ the Story Bus at Darling Harbour today! The kids loved reading on the bus, followed by book readings, songs and games with @debra_tidball. Also great to meet a fellow @cardboardboxillustrators @ramonaofjersey! 🥰

The ultimate speed-sketching challenge - when your subject won't stop moving, and keeps trying to steal (and eat) your materials! 😆
(To be fair they were his crayons.. gotta work with what's at hand!)