How to get picture book projects

I'm getting very busy with picture book projects and others. Re getting picture book projects, it's highly recommended to display your splendid, most confident and unique art work on social media or internet. Publishers and clients are very well researching illustrators who meet their need/texts. They will contact you, if you match what they want.   

Credit on Harry Sowden

My stylefile at ASA is getting many projects this year. ASA stylefile is great (*submission information. Go, try!). Also, my facebook and instagram attract publishers and clients. They directly contact me through facebook as well as stylefile. 
Similarly, SCBWI and other peak bodies will help an illustrator's marketing. Join them and demonstrate your art work in conferences and on their sites, is a good strategy! 
  

I've posted an Australian woolshed based on Harry Sowden's black and white photo. Colours are from my imagination. Whilst working on the picture book projects and portraits, I enjoy looking up secondhand landscape books in a break. Interesting! I love to capture light in Australian bush. 

Friends, let's go and enjoy challenging in our lives. Go every direction. 

Happy Painting! 

How to get picture book projects

1) Australian Landscape 2) ASA party = Networking

Whilst working on the projects and art work, I enjoy studying landscapes. I post an Australian woolshed based on Harry Sowden's black and white photo. Colours are from my imagination. Paradoxically, following instinct is much better than being distracted by a real subject. Value is crucial in painting. 

Credit on Harry Sowden

A dry brush technique, waxing and scratching were used in this work. I will explore more about techniques and learn the timing of wet in wet.

Now, a Christmas party season is coming. It's the time for networking in publishing industry. We get together, catch up, chat over projects and exchange information. Here's one upcoming is Australian Society of Authors Christmas party, below. 

If you are interested in Australian publishing industry and if you like, you can pop up my facebook page, too. There, especially, people in publishing industry keep in touch. I'll post photos. 
https://www.facebook.com/sadami.konchi
See you there, in an ASA party! 
Friends, Happy Painting!!  

Location
ASA offices, C1.06, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007

Date & Time
12th December, 5.00pm - 6.30pm

Prices
Free for members to attend

End of year party, NSW

NSW members are invited to the ASA Christmas/end of year party.

Wednesday 12th December, 5.00pm - 6.30pm

Suite C1.06 22-36 Mountain St Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia

Come celebrate and meet the team! Some information on the team, and pictures so you know who we are on the night, can be found here: https://www.asauthors.org/about-us/our-staff

Register below to RSVP (you must sign in to register).

1) Australian Landscape 2) ASA party = Networking

Australian Landscape, Study 1

I post the study of an Australian woolshed based on Harry Sowden. I found his book, "Australian Woolsheds" in a market, published by Cassell Australia Ltd in 1972. All the photos included in the book were black and white. Today, woolsheds are disappearing in Australia. They are a part of Australian culture with the unique architecture that fascinates me. I always seek for a similar architectural structure in bush or on a field. But like a last year, we have rain in June and very cold. In a studio, I study landscapes, add colours on them from "memory." It seems my memory works well to complete a landscape = I do not get distructed by other visual information. 
Only a few colours were used in this study. 

Credit on Harry Sowden

The study of a woolshed in black and white. I imagined sunshine, a wind and rusted roofs. 

Credit on Harry Sowden. 

The most outstanding impression is the very strong contrast between sunshine/highlight and a dark area in Australia (*we have many skin cancer patients, btw). Once, I sketched an all handmade house in bush, below. I will study more about landscapes in winter, now. 

The other day, I saw a little boy drawing a landscape. He once looked up a subject and got on drawing without looking at it until he finished it up. His work result looked nice, which inspired me. I thought of my landscape study above. Trust in my memory and add colours -- it could be one solution, I feel. Many colours are not needed, which confuse me at this stage. When it becomes fine, I'll enjoy sketching in sunshine! 
Friends, Happy Painting!  

Australian Landscape, Study 1