Frances McKay Illustration

Willey's Winter Wonderland

While a lot of people in the UK may have had enough of the recent snow, FMI's Bee Willey was up to her elbows in the stuff creating some great artwork.

Bee Willey's Rory McRory

Bee Willey shares with us some of the artwork for the re-launched book 'Rory McRory'.

Merry Christmas!

It's that time of year again in case you hadn't noticed, so all of us here at Frances McKay want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year with a selection of seasonal illustrations.

The People's Book Prize 2011/12

Bee Willey's The Mouse who saved Egypt written by Karim Alrawi and published by Tradewind Books has been entered into the children's books section of  The People's Book Prize.

 

School for Princes, and the Mouse Who Saved Egypt

The Mouse who saved Egypt will be published by Tradewind Books in July 2011 in the US and Canada, September 2011 in the UK. Tradewind are small but publish interesting stuff and have a fab typographer!

Flotsam and Jetsam

'Yellow Hand' by Bee Willey. Recently featured on Illustration Rally's 'Ganbare Nippon Rally'

 

'Boy with Peach' by Bee Willey. One of two original artworks donated by Bee to Illustration Rally's Ganbare Nippon Etsy Shop - raising money for Japan.

 

Witchy Magic

 
Here's Bee Willey's entry to Illustration Rally Halloween, with many thanks to illustrator Natsuki Otani.

Happy Halloween from Bee, and all of us!

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School for Princes

 
Finally after nearly two years or is it three, I have finished School for Princes, by Jamila Gavin, to be published by Frances Lincoln. These are stories based on the Panchatantra, ancient texts of wisdom from India, involving animals. Here are two of the line drawings I have done for the animal tales included in the book.