Illustration Friday - Prepare

The King and Queen prepare for their daughter's wedding in The Frog Prince 

Couldn't think anything for this week's topic, but browsing through some of my past books came across these which fulfil the brief perfectly...

They were done for German educational publishers Cornelsen's book The Frog Prince.  The pictures of the King and Queen preparing for their daughter's wedding were witty fillers devised by Cornelsen's Marie Keenoy. 

Illustrations copyright - Please do not reproduce without permission.

Un-colour-corrected whole page.

Illustration Friday - Separated

I think this must be a Romeo & Juliet situation, or one of the squirrels must have a bad cold or something, as most squirrels would be able to meet up quite easily usually!

Partly inspired by previous Illustration Friday entry for Crunchy.

Season's Greetings!

© Frances Cony

Illustration Friday - Round

The Bristol Zoo Wow! Gorilla, which I designed and painted, Endangered PJs (aka Bert) is very rounded...like all the other 62 Gorillas designed by Chris Wilkinson of Wild in Art.  The shoulders, head and especially the bottom are beautifully rounded.  The Giant Panda emphasises the lovely round bottom!

See my gorilla blog for Bert's development:  www.franwowgorilla.blogspot.com

Illustration Friday - Vanity

The Fox and the Crow © Frances Cony

 

Years ago for Oxford University Press, I illustrated the fable The Fox and the Crow.  This is a quick sketchy reinterpretation.  The fox keeps praising the crow, and asking to hear the beautiful voice it must have in order for the crow to open its mouth, and thereby drop the cheese it was holding.  The crow's vanity gets the better of it.

Illustration Friday - Stripes

Easter Zebra   © Frances Cony

Don't think I'll have time to draw a new picture this week.  I do have quite a selection of zebra pictures.  Here is quite a stripy one.

I even illustrated a book of Zebra Jokes!, currently unavailable...

Illustration Friday - Scattered

Having previously scattered the seed, Little Red Hen is now gathering the wheat.   (Little Red Hen : Cambridge University Press)