Earlier this summer I and my fellow CBIG officers were panelists at the New York Public Library, speaking about what we love: illustration and the Childrens' Book Illustrators Group. Read all about it in this nifty article!
Children's Literary Salon in Retrospect: Illustration on June 2, 2012 | The New York Public Library
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Ghost of a Wedding Cake
A Ghost of a Wedding Cake © Diana Ting Delosh Black Medium Point Bic® Pen |
Something about Dickens made me think of doing a black and white illo. Originally I thought of using my trusty double zero rapidiograph pen to ink and brush on a wash but then I thought how well a ball point pen could do whisper thin lines -great for cobwebs. That clinched it. I decided to use a Black Medium Point Bic® Pen as my medium. I frequently use ball point pens to sketch with as they're just so handy and flexible. Depending on your pressure and the tooth of the paper you can get a variety of strokes from barely there to bold black. However using this as my medium on a Finished piece of art required me to shift my perspective on this everyday tool. I mean was it really OK? Sure it was fine for impromptu sketches but serious, planned, finished art? Sure, I mean why not? What do you think?
The above illo is in the CBIG Illustration Exhibit, A Celebration of Dickens in Pictures at the Yonkers Riverfront Library Gallery. The show will run from August 25th to October 31st, 2012. The artists reception will be on September 13th. For a complete schedule of events for this show please visit cbig-nycexhibits.blogspot.com/ .
If you can't make it to the show my fellow exhibitors and I will also be posting the art over on cbig-nyc.blogspot.com during the run of the show.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
IF: BOUNCE!
Dancing Bunnies ink and watercolor © Diana Ting Delosh |
They stand on their toes and twirl, twirl, twirl.
And If they fall they Bounce right back.
Here's my entry for the illustrationfriday.com weekly illo prompt.
Here's to bouncing back from all the missteps and mishaps that life throws at us.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
PumpkinEater Promo Postcard
July2012 Postcard front & Back Art on Front is © Diana Ting Delosh Art on Back is from An Armful of Acorns © Farfaria NOTE: I've smudged out some info out of privacy concerns |
I had these printed via VistaPrint.com and as they were running a sale - even printing in color on both sides did not bust my budget. I must say I'm really pleased with how bright and vivid the colors are. Now postage of course is the 1st class rate so that did tack a bit more to the price. Is it worth it? I hope so, however as I just mailed these out it's too early to say. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they get noticed and pinned to that coveted bulletin board. I can even dream that they lead to an actual assignment.
Any other news? Well lots but unfortunately it's all still hush hush.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Mr & Mrs. Pumpkineater
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Pumpkineater, © Diana Ting Delosh, Ink & Watercolor |
had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her very well.
Tah Dah! Here's the finished painting for Mr. & Mrs. Pumpkineater. Please view the previous post if you'd like to see the Work-In-Progress steps.
This painting will be part of a CBIG Mother Goose Exhibit, Dec 2012 - Jan 2013. Where all the original art will be for sale. Which sounds lovely except as I was watercoloring, I realized this meant I had to be extra careful as I didn't have Photoshop to fall back on to clean up any slips or drips. While the "hand of the artist" and slight human imperfections are fine - This would be it. What you see is what you get...But matted and framed of course.
I will still clean up the original art file in PS so I can make this image available as giclée art prints, cards and possibly other products. It's a bit horrifying what imperfections appear when you blow up the 600 dpi scan to 200 percent. Splotches and stray marks appear that aren't seen by the naked eye on the original but somehow are there on the file and need to be cleaned up while leaving the human brushstrokes and quirky line and marks that gives it the charm of hand drawn and painted art.
In case you were wondering - the original physical art may be sold etc. BUT the COPYRIGHT still remains the property of the CREATOR unless it is specifically and formally transferred or licensed or sold.
Details about the CBIG Mother Goose show will be posted closer to the show date.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
W-I-P: Mr & Mrs. P. Pumpkin Eater
It's been awhile since I last posted on this blog. I've been busy with commissioned illustrations this spring (YAY!) but of course that means I can't blog about it - yet (Sigh). However I can share the Work-in-Progress of some personal work. I'm working on a series of Mother Goose images for an upcoming CBIG Group show.
Yup - I'm depicting Peter and wife as mice. What else eats pumpkins and can live very well in one? I know: chipmunks, snails, perhaps a small bird or even a toad, etc. but this is my illo so I'm doing Mice. Next question - to dress or not dress the mice? Well if they can get married and set-up house in a pumpkin shell they can wear clothes.
... And the finished watercolored version will be coming soon.
Sketch for the 1st illo - for the Mother Goose nursery rhyme: Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
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Here's the ink for Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater. |
... And the finished watercolored version will be coming soon.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Spring Cleaning - Website
Been busy spiffing up my DianaDelosh.com website. Added BOOKS, FOOD and TYPE to my Portfolio sections. As well as put the links to my online shops at the top of each page. Still deciding if I should have a FAQ page. Hoping these changes make my illustration website more user friendly. Please take a gander at my New and Improved site.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Hoppy Bunny Day!
Bunny Dance Hoppy Easter © Diana Ting Delosh Ink & Watercolor cards: www.gcuniverse.com/dianascards prints: wingedrabbit.imagekind.com gifts: www.zazzle.com/deloshdesigns* |
Monday, March 26, 2012
Garden Fresh Grilled Cheese- TDAC/KRAFT illustrated Recipe contest
Garden Fresh Grilled Cheese - TDAC Kraft Contest entry © Diana Ting Delosh Ink, watercolor and photoshop |
I've been eyeing theydrawandcook.com for about a year now, drooling over the gorgeous ingenious recipe illustrations and telling myself one day I'll do one. When along came the Kraft recipe contest. Which meant I didn't have to come up with a recipe to illustrate - I just had to illustrate 1 of the recipes from the Kraft collection. After all while I'll admit I cook, I'd much rather draw.
I had a lot of fun creating my entry for the TDAC KRAFT Contest. Coming up with the story behind the layout: Bunny Dreams of Garden Fresh Grilled Cheese. Drawing the ingredients and having fun with the hand lettered title. Even putting together all the ink & watercolored elements in Photoshop. I wanted my illo, including the type to be light hearted and springy.
Creating this illo reminded me that I used to do B&W spot art for Food & Wine and Cuisine Magazines. I'd love to get a freelance project illustrating food or doing some organic hand lettering. Food for thought as to new applications for my style.
Keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be one of the 6 winners but I'm not holding my breath. There are 175 illustrated recipe entries. Just take a gander at the mouth watering competition at kraftcontest.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Seasons - Gallery Connect March Show
Seasons © Diana Ting Delosh, Ink and watercolor on watercolor paper. art size aprox 13.5 x 8.25 Original art - Price $200 Giclée Art Print - HERE |
Big Bear Little Bunny © Diana Ting Delosh Ink and Watercolor Original Art -Not for Sale Giclée Art Prints* are available HERE |
Bird & Mouse © Diana Ting Delosh Ink & Watercolor Original art -Not for Sale Giclée Art Prints* - HERE |
This show, organized by Deborah Cuneo, features the work of 14 illustrators. They are, in random order: Deborah Cuneo, DianaTing Delosh, Leeza Hernandez, Teresa Tyler, Diane Allison, Penny Weber, Laura Goetz, Maxine Lu, Donna Miskend, Beth Bogert, Cheryl Taborsky, Barbara Mason Rast, Roberta M. Rivera, Amal. The show will run for the month of March.
Gallery Connect is run by the C3 Church and is in the Rainbow Chimes building.
320 Broadway/Greenlawn Rd., Huntington, NY 11743
631-271-0272
- see http://www.c3churchli.com/events/ for more info.
*Giclée Art Prints are available at my Winged Rabbit Gallery. They come in a various sizes from Petite to humongous - paper choices... Prices vary according to your selections. Custom framing is also available.
*Giclée Art Prints are available at my Winged Rabbit Gallery. They come in a various sizes from Petite to humongous - paper choices... Prices vary according to your selections. Custom framing is also available.
NOTE: As 12 of the above illustrators are members of CBIG some of the work will be posted on the CBIG Blogzine: cbig-nyc.blogspot.com.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Squirrel & Anteater Are Out of the Bag!
HOORAH! Farfaria is now LIVE... and has published the 2 ebooks that I illustrated. Finally - the gags been lifted. So without further ado I can now show you what I've been mum about. Between mid September and early February I illustrated, An Armful of Acorns by Adrian Riding and The Greedy Ant Eater by Christine Sawinsky.
Both books were illustrated using my traditional ink and watercolor technique but with a digital twist. As these were going to be for an ebook app or is it just a book app, each page illustration was constructed of layers of individual illos. For example: P 7 from An Armful of Acorns, the blue sky is the base layer. The tree is a separate illo and another layer. As is the squirrel and the nuts and the leaves. Each page element is individually inked, painted, scanned, cleaned up in Photoshop and than finally combined into one layered Photoshop file. This way the app developer can make the leaves flutter or the squirrel twirl or acorns spin. These 2 are my first ebook projects. They were a fun creative challenge and it helped that Farfaria was very easy to work with.
Below are my favorite illustration from each book. Both now available on the App Store.
P-7 from An Armful of Acorns © Farfaria Filbert is nuts about acorns which lands him in all sorts of predicaments. To view the cover art or to find out more - click HERE
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Illustration Friday: TWIRL
Long Tailed Dragon - © Diana Ting Delosh - Ink, watercolor, photoshop A long curlicue tail is fun to TWIRL Twirl for Illustration Friday. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dragons - 1 Sketch to Several Dragons
Monday, January 2, 2012
My Chicken Licken Illo entry for the SCBWI TDP Illo Award
Chicken Licken (Chicken Little)
© Diana Ting Delosh
Ink and Watercolor
TA DAH! Here is my entry for the 2012 SCBWI Tomie dePaolo Illustration Contest. The winners will be announced very very soon. Keeping my fingers crossed but I'm not holding my breath as the competition is an amazingly talented bunch!
If you'd like to see some of the other entries please go to http://scbwicontest.blogspot.com/. Fellow contestant, SCBWI Houston Illustrator Coordinator, Diandra Mae, has put up an unofficial showcase of the entries. This gallery was created to show off more of the art as the official SCBWI announcement will only show off the winners.
Winners announced on January 9, 2012.
And the winner isn't moi -sigh- back to the drawing board,
The winners can be viewed here.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Beary Christmas!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Vote for...#22!
Howdy Friends - I entered my Snowman - Christmas in a Greeting Card Design contest: Let it Snow and now the polls are open for voting. Anyone can vote. You don't have to be a member of the GCU community. Voting ends December 18th. Please view and vote for your favorite design by going to this link: http://gcucommunity.com/2011/12/13/design-contest-let-it-snow-time-to-vote/ |
Hint hint... my design entry is #22 ...wink wink.
Thanks for voting!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Illustration Friday - Brigade
SNOWMEN! Ink & Watercolor © Diana Ting Delosh |
I created these snowmen for my POD stores*. The arts done -now just need to sneak in the time between assignments to make the illos into "products". I know I'm a wee behind, at any rate the snowmen will be arriving into my various stores and depending on how you look at it they're either too late for this winter season or too early for next year's. In the meanwhile I hope you liked the preview.
Snowmen will be arriving soon at my *stores:
Note to self: 2012 resolution #1 - create seasonal art 3-6 months ahead of the season for my POD shops. Give them time to build some SEO and all that other good stuff.
Friday, December 2, 2011
YAY -I Completed PiBoIdMo 2011!
I do solemnly swear that I have faithfully executed
the PiBoIdMo 30-ideas-in-30-days challenge,
and will, to the best of my ability,
parlay my ideas into picture book manuscripts.
WHEW! - so glad I completed the challenge, although with a dry patch in the middle I almost gave up. All in all even with a bit of creative block it was a lot of fun: reading the daily inspiring posts on Tara's blog, hoping to win a prize here or there. Most of all just having fun and knowing that I'm not the only one muttering PB ideas to myself for the month of November.
Now the work ahead and into 2012 is to flesh out at least 1 of these scribbled ideas into a real PB story - a PB dummy even!
For more info about PIBOIDMO please read or Follow Tara's blog at http://taralazar.wordpress.com/
Friday, November 18, 2011
M-M-M-M It's a PBDummy!
M-M-M-M CUPCAKES
Scan of my Picture Book Dummy
All art and text © Diana Ting Delosh
Web/Portfolio - dianadelosh.com
Tah Dah - I'm so happy to say it's a DUMMY! I've been working on this dummy , betwixt and between jobs and life and there were many times that I thought it would never be a cohesive piece. This 32 page dummy is comprised of 2 finished colored spreads and the balance is loose sketches. I even created some yummy cupcake type for the title. Finally, here it is all put together and in time for my big portfolio review last weekend.
So how was M-M-M-M CUPCAKES PB Dummy Debut? I saw 3 reviewers; 2 editors from small to midsize publishing houses and 1 Art director from a large Big Name Publishing house.
The Big Name Publishing House Art Director liked how my dummy demonstrated that I had a real sense of how a picture book should flow. However her imprint was not interested in Concept Stories.
Editor # 1 was also not looking for picture book illustrators although CB liked my portfolio and told me I could send her ideas and sample art. Sigh.
However I really seemed to hit it off with editor #2. PG seemed to really like my portfolio and my dummies especially M-M-M-M CUPCAKES. She also really liked concept books as this mid-sized house tends to sell to libraries and schools, hence their lists are school curriculum driven. PG even quickly read through the brief text and gave me a few suggestions and permission to formally submit this proposal after I've made her suggested revisions as well as send other new proposals to her. YAY -very exciting! Keeping fingers crossed!
Note I did not mention the Publishing houses nor the reviewers by names. I have a superstition that if I talk too much about something prematurely I may jinx myself. More importantly though is that this is my experience and yours with the same company and reviewers would be your unique experience based on your work. This review has convinced me to try a new strategy of picking smaller or midsize publishing houses as they seemed to be more open to acquiring new projects/illustrators.
FYI: I only show my hard covered dummies in person at reviews, conferences etc. To submit this project as a Picture book proposal, I create a multipage PDF from the 16 spreads (15 internal spreads plus the cover) that I can easily pop in the mail or even just attach to an e-mail, with cover letters of course.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
PiBoIdMo 2011!
Here we go again! I just signed up for PiBoIdMo 2011, Picture Book Ideas Month at http://taralazar.wordpress.com/. The challenge is to come up with 30 picture book ideas in the month of November (30 days). Just ideas - no outlines etc. -keep it simple and have FUN.
Last year I put my ideas onto index cards. Not sure if I'm using the same low-tech method for 2011. I may just scribble them into my journal and enter them on a running list. My 2010's participation in this challenge resulted in the current dummy that I'm almost finished with. Click HERE if you're curious about that project.
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