Art
Women Artists A to Z by Melanie LaBarge, illustrated by Caroline Corrigan
A review by Annabelle Lee Women Artists A to Z (due for release on February 18th, 2020) is a collaboration between New York writer and …
Fanart: A Lifetime of Impossible Days
A Lifetime of Impossible Days is the third book I tried scrapbooking, bearing in mind that The Starless Sea version 1 came first and version …
Fanart: Daughter of Lies and Ruin
Once more a book I loved inspired me to venture into scrapbooking: Daughter of Lies and Ruin is about two witches who brew potions in …
Fanart: The Starless Sea
The history behind this fanart of The Starless Sea. My family is well aware that art and craft is part of who I am. My …
Fanart: Kate Forsyth presents the Blue Rose
It was the Canberra Writers Festival the weekend after the Apple Today class teaching me how to use the Clips app. This was insidious timing. …
Fanart: How to pack lite by John Birmingham
John Birmingham was in town for the Canberra Writers Festival and he brought me a super-sexy totally gorgeous HARDCOVER copy of The Cruel Stars. The …
Cicada by Shaun Tan
A review by Nalini Haynes Cicada works in an office job, possibly in the public service or at a university. He’s been there a very …
Creative process in developing picture books part 2
Dr Belle Alderman continues showing us the creative process behind developing a children’s picture book, using Dinosaurs Love Cheese and associated artwork. Dinosaurs Love Cheese …
Creative process in developing picture books
Dinosaurs Love Cheese is an adorable book by Jackie French for which the Centre has original artwork demonstrating the creative process of developing art for …
Art Collection in the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature
In the below 6th video in this series, Dr Belle Alderman shows us a sample of the Centre’s art collection associated with Australian children’s Literature. …
Banksy’s UNexhibition
A review by Nalini Haynes On 7 November after a huge weekend at PAX, my partner and I walked up to Fed Square in Melbourne …
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell
A review by Nalini Haynes This is a new special edition of Odd and the Frost Giants. The first was released in 2010. This hardcover …
Accessorize this!
In 2005 I was horrified by a photograph of two young women wearing civilian clothing, walking down a street in Jerusalem, both carrying automatic guns as …
Jensen Ackles portrait by Nalini Haynes
All this Supernatural fan-girling reminded me that, several years ago, I drew a pencil portrait of Jensen Ackles and I’ve never put it online. One day …
Sir Terry Pratchett lives in graffiti, the voice of the voiceless
Sir Terry Pratchett, a brilliant and prolific author particularly known for his 40+ Discworld novels, said: “You ignore graffiti at your peril. It’s the heartbeat …