Blog Posts - Marina Wild

Red tractor, teenage elephants and notes to self: book launch

10/6/2016

We will launch three books I illustrated (two for children, one for adults, all published in 2016) on Thursday, June 16, at 1pm in the College Bar, NUI Galway. All welcome!

Red's Road to Green, written by Amie Ní Nualláin

Jumbo Joins a Gang, the third book in the Jumbo trilogy, written by Lionel Gallagher, design by Conor Gallagher

I am a Notebook and I Talk to Myself, written by Pilar Alderete-Diez and Irma Mento

Red's Road to Green

6/6/2016

Red's Road to Green (written by Amie Ní Nualláin and illustrated by me) is now available in Ireland via our Etsy shop (in the US via The Indie Celt)!

Re-reading: Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska

25/4/2016

Currently on my bedside table: this beautiful edition of one of my favourite books, Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska, about the artists Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith, art and life, art-in-life, modernism, feminism, Australian history, and so much more. Thank you for this wonderful gift, Pi!

Red's Road to Green

13/3/2016

Red's Road to Green, written by Amie Ní Nualláin and illustrated by me, is out now in the US and coming to Ireland very soon!

Seeds

8/2/2016

This collaborative project (part self-help, part creativity notebook, part memoir, written by Irma Mento and Pilar Alderete-Diez and illustrated by me) is now out in book form. More information to follow!

Emil

27/12/2015

A pencil sketch of my four-month-old nephew - photo taken with winter afternoon sunlight streaming in (see gigantic pencil shadow!)

Preparatory paintings

20/12/2015

These two paintings, which were done in preparation for illustrations for a forthcoming children's book, are now available in our Etsy shop. They are in acrylics, which were also used for the final illustrations, but for the book we decided to go with a flatter, blockier style.

On the easel

26/11/2015

Lately I have been copying myself a lot - this is the third version of the figure-in-bird. We moved into our house about three months ago and are living in the sitting room and kitchen while doing it up. So my current studio is the kitchen table. The reason I have a framed painting on the easel is because I am recycling an old painting I no longer liked. I do this a lot, which means I don't have much of an archive!

Original Jumbo illustrations for sale

15/11/2015

I have added two more Jumbo drawings to our Etsy shop. Somehow more than a year has passed since my sister and I opened it, and we still haven't really announced it yet!

Pirates

8/11/2015

Finally putting these into book form years after the idea was hatched (a collaboration with the one and only Rab Swannock Fulton). Watch this space!