The making of When Sadness Comes to Call - part 1 Where ideas come from and how they sometimes follow you long enough to make it into a picturebook

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You can read more about the origins of my picturebook ‘When Sadness Comes to Call’ it here, my latest illustrated letter

My news letter ‘An illustrated letter’ will drop in your inboxes tomorrow morning if you are subscribed. If you haven’t yet and want to receive it, you can do so here: evaeland.substack.com

I tried something else this time, still finding my groove…

#creativeprocess #risographart

How to silence your inner critic A Conversation with Margaret Sturton on the Creative Process

Had a wonderful creative reconnection with Margaret Sturton last week. We talked about silencing the inner critic, making space for joy, and taking a kinder approach to creativity.

I wrote about it on my Substack.

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#creativity #innercritic

hand holding a book in front of a bookcase, on the cover is a cat hiding behind the title and Suzy, the toddler, looking for the cat

latest little review up on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog, Where is the Cat by Eva Eland, fun little book about normal cats and normal toddlers

great fun finding the cat

@andersenpress.bsky.social @evaeland.bsky.social #WhereIsTheCat #KidLitUK 💙📚

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I had a lot of fun during the ‘research’ phase, making my picture book Where is the Cat? as you can see here in the end papers 🤭
Do you have a cat? And where’s the strangest place they’ve ever hidden?

The paperback edition of Where is the Cat? is out today! 🐱✨

To celebrate, I made a few new cat risoprints, now up in my webshop evaeland.com. I’ve also written about the making of this book in my latest Substack, which will go out today. open.substack.com/pub/evaeland

I wrote a new ‘an illustrated letter’ on my Substack. You can read and/or subscribe here: open.substack.com/pub/evaeland...

The 10th Klaus Flugge Prize Longlist is here! ✨
Celebrating the most exciting newcomers in children's picture book illustration! Huge congratulations to all the longlisted artists! 📚💛

Which book are you most excited to read? 👀👇

#KlausFluggePrize

The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe

The latest Read for Empathy collection is released by @empathylabuk.bsky.social tomorrow. With the way the world is heading, we need these books in homes, schools and libraries more than ever before. Please take a look at their site for more information. www.empathylab.uk/RFE-2024

Paper copy of my latest @newyorker.com cover. On newsstands now.

Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', 1959 edition, by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

We're 5 months into January but we can now confidently say that there is only 1 day left! It's been a long one but you did it! We did it and we're almost there.

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Where Happiness Begins - risograph print

Where Happiness Begins - risograph print

Where Happiness Begins - risograph print

Are you looking for Happiness?

New riso print in my webshop, the opening page of my picture book Where Happiness Begins, published with @andersenpress.bsky.social Seems an apt illustration for January?

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#riso #januaryblues #wherehappinessbegins #picturebookillustration

Tiny colour experiments with risograpy. Keeping it small so it’s easy for me to carve out some time for experiments and play. The colours I used here are the difficult to capture fluorescent orange and blue. #risography

Panel One: A scientist works at a blackboard. Diagrams and text on the blackboard contain the phrases: crushing darkness, seemingly no escape, time drags and, inhospitably cold. A second figure approaches and, seeing the blackboard, asks "Black Holes?" Panel Two: The scientist replies "January"

A timely cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Print looking up at bird in flight, in silhouette, in a space in the canopy of treetops

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman

Thank you Lele!

Trying to find a happy corner on the internet. Will this be it? What do you think?

Hello. What’s one of your favourite accounts here to follow?