Month: August 2020

8/25/20

Watch Coffee Time with Lilla and Kim as we reveal a box full of some of our favorite products.

Back before the pandemic when 2020 was still new and fun and we were allowed to be together, Kim and I gathered a box full of our favorite products by our artists to show you. We hope you enjoy this short video.

 

Watch Coffee Time with Lilla & Kim

 

 

More great products by our artists…
Fabulous circular puzzle for eeBoo.
Photo: eeBoo

 

Kids Quilt set for Anthropologie.

 

Creative Co-op

 

Design of Storybook for Hasbro’s Baby Alive doll.
Photo: Hasbro

 

American Greetings

 

Land of Nod / Crate&kids

 

I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
8/20/20

Join me today at 12:30 PM ET to meet an incredible artist, Jennifer M Potter and see her gorgeous work.

We’re excited to invite you to join us TODAY at 12:30 PM ET for the next in our series of WebinARTs with our artist Jennifer M Potter, who has worked on a variety of incredible illustration projects for clients such as The American Library Association, The Boston Children’s Museum, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Nosy Crow, Running Press, Sasquatch Books, The Washington Post, Up With Paper, and more.

 

Click here to join our free public WebinART on Zoom with our artist
Jennifer M Potter today at 12:30 PM ET.
Password: Jennifer77

 

I’ll ask her how she transitioned to a full-time career as a freelance illustrator, how she creates such dramatic cinematic pieces (hint: she studied animation, comics and storyboarding at SCAD), what her very favorite illustration project was and why, and how she stays organized. If nothing else, come for the gorgeous work in the slideshow. Plus we’ll take a few questions live.

 

One lucky participant will win Jennifer Potter’s lushly, fully illustrated book, Voices of Justice.
We can’t wait to see you there!

 

 

 

Jennifer M Potter, illustrator
San Francisco, USA
Above and Left: Voices of Justice
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)

 

Cover of Songbird Dreams of Singing (Running Press)

 

Illustrations for The Washington Post

 

Above, left: Local Living Section cover, article on Middle School friendships
Above, right: Real estate section, article on moving during a pandemic
Below: Weekend/Going out section, article on Hygge

 

Children’s Book Work
8/20/20

WebinART #12 with illustrator Jennifer M Potter

August 20th, 2020 – Webinar #12 with illustrator Jennifer M Potter

#12 in our ongoing series of WebinARTs featured our artist Jennifer M Potter, and it was wonderful! Jennifer’s gorgeous work is characterized by stunning lighting and expert rendering. Hear what resources she uses to achieve these effects, plus her thoughts on “where to put the camera”. Fascinating!

Replay Link
Access Password: 6Vb^%SLf

8/17/20

Guess who I’m interviewing next? Plus a time-lapse video by Sarah Walsh

Coming this Thursday!

 

Jennifer M Potter
San Francisco
Above and below:
Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator (Sasquatch Books)
Join me Thursday for our WebinART #11 as I chat with the unparalleled
and view her gorgeous work.
This Thursday,
August 20th at 12.30 PM ET.
—–
We’ll be broadcasting live on Zoom here on Thursday. See you then!
WebinART link here
Password: Jennifer77

 

Did you miss last week’s WebinART and portfolio showcase with Kelly Anne Dalton? You can catch the replay here; Password: 51Zfn7.f

 

Find links to our entire WebinART series HERE.

 

 

 

Congratulations to Åsa Gilland whose book The Perfect Shelter (Little Tiger Press) also received a starred Kirkus Review.

 

“Gilland’s illustrations use gorgeous layered colors, patterns, and clean lines with plenty of white space for thoroughly engaging pictures.”

 

 

 

 

Check out this lovely piece that Janie Secker did for one of the assignments for my text, I Paint Purple, for my Illustrating Children’s Book course. Stay tuned for an upcoming newsletter and see the big reveal of all the work by our artists for class!

 

 

Click here to see a time-lapse of Sarah Walsh creating this piece.

 

Sarah writes:
I’m in portrait/fan art mode! Been nibbling at this piece for a minute and finished last week. If you don’t know, Slick Woods @slickwoods is a dynamo, an artist, and a boundary breaker. Giving her the label of supermodel seems so narrow! Slick is a beam of bad a*s light! She’s changing the tired perception of what beauty is in the world and I’m here for it. She’s worked with Rihanna, Mark Jacobs, UGGS, Vogue and soooooo many others. Not only is she incredibly beautiful, she’s hilarious as well. Her one liners on @lauraperlongo Moms In Hot Tubs kill me. (Yes she’s also a mom) Slick your spirit speaks to me! I had to put my brush to the paper✨✨✨✨✨

 

 

Puzzle by Crocodile Creek
Rebecca writes:
It’s always a lovely surprise when I come across one of my illustrations unexpectedly. Spotted my little mouse puzzle in a gorgeous gift shop by the beach.

 

 

Available for licensing as of this writing.
8/13/20

WebinART #11 with illustrator Kelly Anne Dalton

August 13th, 2020 – Webinar #11 with artist Kelly Anne Dalton

Hear how Kelly Anne’s past as an off-Broadway star at the age of 17 still influences her work, and how she has traded sprinting for endurance running in life, as well as in art.
Replay Link
Password: 51Zfn7.f

8/13/20

Join me today at 12:30 PM ET as I chat with our artist Kelly Anne Dalton and view her magical dream world of illustrations.

 
Join us TODAY at 12:30 PM ET for the next in our series of WebinARTs with our artist Kelly Anne Dalton, whose magical art has been commissioned on a variety of illustration projects for top clients including Quarto Publishing, Random House, Sellers Publishing, The Washington Post, Editions Auzou, and more.

 

Click here to join our free public WebinART on Zoom with Guest artist Kelly Anne Dalton TODAY at 12:30 PM ET. Password: Kelly77

 

I’ll ask what she did before becoming an illustrator (quite surprising!), how she tackles huge book illustration projects, what makes a great art director, how her style has morphed over time, plus enjoy her gorgeous work in a slideshow.

 

We can’t wait to see you there!

 

Kelly Anne Dalton, Illustrator
Montana, USA
We’ll have a giveaway of Kelly Anne’s illustrated book Chemistry for Kids(Quarto) (above left, and below) during the webinART.
Above: Cover for Random House

 

 

Editorial illustrations

 

 

Greeting card & Decorative illustrations

 

Above: Sellers Publishing

 

Children’s Book illustrations

 

8/11/20

Join me for my next live interview with our artist Kelly Anne Dalton as we chat about her work and career.

Join me on Thursday for #11
in our popular series of
Zoom WebinARTs as I chat with our artist
and view her gorgeous work.
This Thursday, August 13th at 12.30 PM ET.
—–
We’ll be broadcasting live on Zoom here on Thursday. See you then!
Password: Kelly77
It was so wonderful getting to know our newest artist Janie Secker in our previous WebinART. You can catch the replay here; Password: $RiEDi5y
Find links to our entire WebinART series HERE.
Left: Book cover for Random House
Below: Illustration for The Washington Post on five extraordinary young women.

 

Art Directors: Have you checked out our new PDF tab on our site yet? You’ll love all the downloadable PDFs chock full of art. You can search by category or by artist. Categories include Puzzles, Children’s Books, Home Decor pitches, and more.
Below, check out highlights of our newest PDF of packaging work, featuring commissions our artists have gotten to illustrate the packages of cookies, chocolates, ice cream, hand cream and more.
Beauty packaging for L’Occitane en Provence

 

Monthly box packaging for Fab Fit Fun
Read a great interview with our artist Helen Dardik about this project here!

 

Beauty packaging collection for L’Occitane en Provence

 

Cookie packaging for Fika

 

Illustrated collection for Godiva Chocolates

 

Ice Cream packaging for
Publix Supermarkets
Fragrance packaging for Blue Q
I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
8/5/20

See the meditating mustachioed man and a selection of editorial images picked for you.

At the end of our weekly Zoom staff meetings, Patty, our studio assistant and yoga teacher leads us on a relaxing meditation. We slide back in our chairs, close our eyes, and breathe. Patty says, “Meditation brings us back to our bodies, what’s real and present, and out of our fears for the future.”

 

Agent Kim Fleming selected a number of meditative illustrations she thought you’d enjoy. I love Mara Penny‘s bath scene full of floating fruit slices and flowers and Trina Dalziel‘s mustachioed man and guitar, below.

 

Contact us to assign or license art–we’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!

 

 

Editorial commission

 

Available for license as of this writing.

 

Available for license as of this writing.

 

Available for license as of this writing.

 

Diabetes Magazine

 

Congratulations to Bambi Ramsey and Jennifer M Potter, whose illustrations were selected for the Washington Post’s “Best Art During the Pandemic” article, also with an honorable mention to Carolyn Gavin.
Check out the full article here.

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells