Frances McKay Illustration

Rocket-Boy

This week I spent more time than planned on small illustrations for my 4-year-old son Anton. On Monday the 15th we have a special day called "Rosenmontag" in Germany which is one of the main days of Germans "Karneval". On this specialized monday all children can wear costumes at kindergarden. Anton decided to go dressed as a postman.

So I need some postcards he can deliver to other children in kindergarden. This rocket-boy is one of these postcard figures which the children can colour if they want to. As I worked on it I decided to add it to the main page of my webpage, which I am redesigning at the moment. This is my first idea on how it might look like. I will let you know as soon as the redesigned page is up!

Best wishes,

Christina Bretscheider

www.kritzel-kram.de

www.peppig-illustration.de   

James and the Giant Peach

As I had a look at James's great new book cover I remembered a fictional book cover I did last year. One I haven`t added to my website yet. This cover feels like a hopeful preview to what is coming up for all of us in 2010.

After last years meeting in November we (mostly John & Elena-thank you so much!) have brought this blog on it`s way and I am looking forward to the development of the other projects which will follow if we work together continuously. I am sure we, as a group of illustrators, will have a surprising and successful year coming up!

Christina Bretschneider  

Big Fat Angels

Today is the first day of beautiful shimmering snow coming down in the eastern part of Germany. It reminds me of the time I was at art school in Hamburg. Every December my drawing teacher, who became a friend of mine over the years, encouraged us to draw angels. Angels we had never seen before. Big, fat ones, angels who were missing an arm or an eye. I did my best and over the years I built up an amazing collection of strange looking angels. Today I drew my first nice-looking angel, with a slightly unusual hairstyle, sport shoes and loosing her pet whilst reaching up to catch a letter from the sky. However, I still do have a fondness for the strange, wild, angels... Merry Christmas to you all.

Christina Bretschneider

www.kritzel-kram.de

www.peppig-illustration.de