Frances McKay Illustration

Happy Christmas 2017

Rosie Eve

 

Charlotte Cotterill

Kate Sheehy

 

Christina Bretschneider 

 

Henning Löhlein 

 

Happy Christmas and all best wishes for the New Year from everyone at Frances McKay Illustration.

 

Happy Christmas

The children from Irene’s debut picture book ‘Blocks’ having fun opening their Christmas presents. I wonder what this one could be! Published in the UK January 2016 by Nosy Crow) 

Irene Dickson

 

Sean Julian

 

This Reindeer Family, became my first Christmas card design for Woodmansterne this year, on sale beside the likes of our own Jane Eccles, AND Sir Quentin Blake!!

And I just love these cute and merry robins.

Jill Latter

 

After winning the Sheffield Baby book prize with "Fish Food' just over a year ago, I thought Father Christmas should have a look what those fish are up to over Xmas. 

Henning Löhlein

 

Alan Marks

Nicola Pontin

 

Happy Christmas and all good wishes for the New Year from everyone at Frances McKay Illustration.

 

 

Season's Greetings and Festive Cheer

 

Rachel Boulton 

Jill Latter 

 

Festive jollity to everyone from Jane and her cat, Celeste.

Jane Eccles 

 

 

Have a jolly Festive Season, and a fabulous happy New Year!!! 

Henning Löhlein 

 

The two characters that have made it onto my Christmas card this year are from a picture book story I am currently developing about possessive friendships.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

Algy Craig Hall 

 

 

 

Tom Morgan-Jones 

 

Donough O'Malley 

 

  

 

Belinda Worsley 

"That looks painful!" said Penguin.

Sean Julian 

 

A piece of concept art for a picture book about the magic of Christmas.

Neil Price 

 

http://www.fidgetandco.com/ Latest poster to download for free, in time for the holidays... The Adventures of Dr Fillie Fidget and Hamish the Dog. 

Happy Christmas all!

Bee Willey 

 

The north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will the robin do then? Poor thing!

He’ll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing!

Alan Marks 

 

This is a little booklet I made in the style of a medieval woodcut chap book, illustrating the Christmas story of Babushka, for those not familiar with it....

I recall this story being read on Jackanory one December long long ago on the TV, and it had such an impact on me a child, and it has stayed with me ever since.

Often mistakenly thought of as a traditional Russian tale, this is really an Italian tradition, alive and well, with the children there receiving gifts and sweets down the chimney on January 5th from La Befana - a kindly old woman with a broomstick - they are threatened with getting lumps of coal if they misbehave.

After much digging around researching the origins of the 'Russian' tale, I read that it was actually an English woman visiting Russia in the early 1900s,  who coming across a published version of the story and was not aware it was a translation from the Italian to Russian, as she subsequently translated it to English thereby becoming responsible for creating the myth in the west of the Russian Babushka story! The basic story was not however lost in translation!

  

I hope you enjoy the little tale as much as I did all those years ago: along with the notion that a kindly hardworking woman is responsible for the mysterious gifts in your stocking on Christmas morning and not an old man with a big beard and muddy boots!!

Irene Dickson 

 

 

Season's Greetings, Happy Christmas and all good wishes for the New Year from everyone at Frances McKay Illustration.

 

Merry Christmas from all at FMI

Wishing you all a merry Christmas from here at Frances Mckay illustration. We are taking a break until the New Year but we will be back with some more amazing work and posts for you. Until then, thank you for following us in what has been a great year, and we hope you all don't over do it on the mince pies, as we will likely do.

Illustration by Jane Eccles.

 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The big day is nearly upon us so the good people here at FMI thought we would give you a slightly early present with a bumper crop of some fine festive images for your seasonal delight.

Christmas is drawing in!

With Christmas rapidly approaching again, Bristol based group Brillustration are having another big draw for the festive season.

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.

Carey Morning - Mysterious Births

 
What a mystery! We give birth to our stories - conceived in what impenetrable realms? - and they fly off into the world, a few hundred words, flapping black and white. If we are very very lucky some may return to us as full-grown books, in full-colour, to perch on many strangers' shelves! What a miracle! What gorgeous plumage!