SCRIBBLE SKETCH by Stephen Aitken

Fine art processes in a variety of media. Musings on the art of writing and illustrating for fiction, non-fiction and books for children - tips, anecdotes and sketches.

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Hot-pressed watercolour paper

This lovely Arches paper has a kid-glove feel to it and it can be used for highly detailed dry brush artwork as well as for spontaneous, unforgiving, everything shows watercolours. The images above were created for Macmillan Educational for a new series of ESL books.

Posted 3rd December 2017 by Stephen Aitken

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Stephen Aitken: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; I am a Canadian author/illustrator of fiction and non-fiction for both trade and educational publishers in Canada, the US, and abroad. I have written 4 trade books for Orca books, illustrated and written over 2 dozen picture books and am coauthor/illustrator of an environmental middle-grade fiction series for Harper Collins Children's Books in India. Email: steve@stephenaitken.com

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