Miss Mouse Takes Her Tea

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Here’s a tiny little spot illo I originally created for a tea party invitation. Just a little frothy, frilly fun. She’s been converted and colored in Adobe Illustrator and is now a scalable vector.

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Folk Tales

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

I recently finished an illustration for an African folk tale called the Lion and the Hare. Hare, in African lore, is a trickster and in this particular story, he manages to convince the large, but easily outsmarted, Lion not to eat him. I’m sharing my process, again in this illustration, starting with the initial concept [...]

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Illustration Process (pt 2)

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

As you might remember, I promised you a peek at the final illustration I was working on for the SCBWI. Well, here it is. If it weren’t well past my bedtime, I might be compelled to write some more about it. That will have to wait until later. This is what the artwork looks in [...]

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Illustration Process

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

I wanted to share a bit of an inside peek at my illustration process for a recent piece I did for the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Newsletter Cover. The image is a fall theme. I chose this vignette of a little mouse couple relaxing on a cold autumn afternoon by their fireplace. This is the very first [...]

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Tamara Traylor: Illustration and Design

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