EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 14 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

16 ABOVE: The Silent Hero (2009), oil on linen, 24” x 20”, this painting is about how silence and the inability to speak can be a virtue in life sometimes. From the ‘Silent Heroes’ exhibition at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Spain held on July 9th, 2009. FACING PAGE TOP: Untitled I (2009), pencil, India ink and acrylic on Arches watercolor paper for the same exhibition. but what new ideas come from her colourful mind. As to her working process, she usually starts a piece by doing some writing and little roughs. “Writing and brainstorming to get my ideas out is always my initial approach, no matter what, whether it’s a fine art painting for a gallery show, a rock poster or an illustration. The writing helps me solidify the concept and the direction I want to go in. You can make some interesting connections if you’re just brainstorming and throwing words out there… kind of getting a flow of consciousness.” Then she does small-sized roughs: if it works at a small size, she knows it will work on the board or canvas, whatever size she blows it up to. “It is really hard for me to start initially using a 14 by 17 sheet of paper: it’s too big. So, I do tiny roughs and then develop it from there. Then I scan the rough drawings, enlarge them, choose a layout and put it on the light table where I do my main drawing. There’s something captured in that fluidity and looseness in the roughness—if Text continued from page 9