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https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/illustration-friday-zoo_24.html?showComment=1196022780000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ ZOO From an interior spread for the book I just illustrated and now available from Stagger Lee Books "Song For A Giraffe" It took almost a year... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalzoo https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/backgrounds.html?showComment=1196390220000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: BACKGROUNDS ~ The Background is an integral part of any illustration. Sometimes it is simply a textured area and in other cases it needs to represent some... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalbackgrounds https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-charley-thornpaws-color-pages.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Little Charley Thornpaws ~ The Color Pages Here are some color pages for Little Charley Thornpaws. The book is available from the publisher, 4RV Publishing LLC, and soon from Amazon.... ginger nielson https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/10/finished-from-earlier-sketch.html?showComment=1193394840000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Finished from earlier sketch This is most likely my last post for a while. I started a new assignment that will keep me quite busy, along with introducing Henry into our... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalfinishedearlier https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/06/interview-season-at-picture-bookies.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: INTERVIEW SEASON at the PICTURE BOOKIES Over the next few weeks the PICTURE BOOKIES GROUP will be featuring interviews with the talented members of this group. You can look for t... ginger nielson https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/04/visit-gallery.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: VISIT THE GALLERY ~ The Picture Bookies Gallery Showcase features a theme each week that is populated by the work from 50 children's illustrators. Take a look ... ginger nielsonvisit theillustratorjournalgallery https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/07/illustration-friday-hollow.html?showComment=1247408743774 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ HOLLOW This is one of my favorite illustrations from the book, " My African Bedtime Rhymes " by Brettell Hone. I illustrated this last year and i... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalhollow https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2012/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: 2012 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/05/illustration-friday-wide-reminder.html?showComment=1211232720000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WIDE ... a reminder Where there was once a WIDE expanse of ice mass the latest climate changes have contributed to massive melting. The polar bear is now on the... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustrator https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/04/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: April 2008 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalapril https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2012/08/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: August 2012 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalaugust https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/backgrounds.html?showComment=1196335860000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: BACKGROUNDS ~ The Background is an integral part of any illustration. Sometimes it is simply a textured area and in other cases it needs to represent some... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalbackgrounds https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/illustration-friday-signs.html?showComment=1179533880000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ SIGNS ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalsigns https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/illustration-friday-zoo_24.html?showComment=1196172900000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ ZOO From an interior spread for the book I just illustrated and now available from Stagger Lee Books "Song For A Giraffe" It took almost a year... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalzoo https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/05/illustration-friday-wide-reminder.html?showComment=1211337420000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WIDE ... a reminder Where there was once a WIDE expanse of ice mass the latest climate changes have contributed to massive melting. The polar bear is now on the... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustrator https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-new-book-i-illustrated-has-just-been.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal A new book I illustrated has just been released. You can read more about Brian Halla's lovely first picture book using the link provided. ... ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/11/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: November 2009 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalnovember https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/12/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: December 2013 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournaldecember https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/10/work-in-progress_03.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Work in Progress I am stopping here, just for now, and may or may not go on, but I kind of like the softness and don't want to add too much more. This way y... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalworkprogress https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-books-for-2010.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: New Books for 2010... This past year and a half has been a fortunate one for me as an illustrator. It proves that really hard work pays off... well it may not p... ginger nielsonjournal newbooks forillustrator https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/10/to-e-or-not-to-e.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: To "E" or not to "E" I am lucky enough to be doing a job that I truly love. Illustrating for children's books. Some of these I also write. My goal has always be... ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-news-about-gunther.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: More News about Gunther *:) A visit to Sunshine Smile Publications will feature an announcement about my first book as both author and illustrator. The article is ju... ginger nielsonmore newsillustratorjournalgunther https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/01/nice-weather-for.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Nice Weather for.......... ginger nielsonnice weatherillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/11/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: November 2010 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalnovember https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/10/monster-mash-sketch.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: MONSTER MASH ~ SKETCH This is the beginning sketch for my entry in the 2007 Monster Mash, hosted by Penelope Illustration. To enter go to her Monster Mash site... ginger nielsonmonster mashillustratorjournalsketch https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustration-friday-ripples.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ RIPPLES Today we have a very special topic to announce. The topic is "Ripple", suggested by Kelly Light. Kelly is making an effort to help with the ... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalripples https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/04/time-to-wake-up.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Time to Wake Up! Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsontime toillustratorjournalwake https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/07/illustration-friday-hollow.html?showComment=1247517536869 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ HOLLOW This is one of my favorite illustrations from the book, " My African Bedtime Rhymes " by Brettell Hone. I illustrated this last year and i... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalhollow https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2011/02/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: February 2011 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalfebruary https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/10/work-in-progress.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Work In Progress My advice to others is always to draw every day, or night. This is the beginning of a work in progress that began as a late night sketch. A... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalworkprogress https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/09/illustration-friday-welcome.html?showComment=1252808391400 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WELCOME Of course the Welcome Mat is always out! ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalwelcome https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/04/soggy-saga.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: A Soggy Saga.... The storms in the Northeast caused our power and phones to be disabled. Roads were closed and the fire department couldn't even get to our h... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalsoggysaga https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-new-year-and-more-new-beginnings.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal A New Year and more new beginnings. I have a habit of wanting to do too many things at once. I guess the ideas won't leave me alone. But I ... ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2014/10/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: October 2014 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournaloctober https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-milestone-in-illustrating-childrens.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: A Milestone in Illustrating Children's Books Today I added another book to the growing list of those I have illustrated. Today's count is at 31! I have three more waiting for me an... ginger nielson https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/01/flyers.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Flyers... Imagine! I wish I could distribute flyers to publishers as easily as this. I may just use this illustration on the envelopes I will be usi... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalflyers https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/09/illustration-friday-strong.html?showComment=1252507118111 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ STRONG It's not magic! Fresh air, sunshine and vitamins have a direct effect on one's health . ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalstrong https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2014/01/another-step-by-step-by-step.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Another Step by Step by Step I normally finish all my work as digital paintings, but I like to paint traditionally as well. Sometimes the traditional work goes into the ... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalanotherstep https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/08/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: August 2009 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalaugust https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/10/from-sketchbook.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: From the Sketchbook Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonfrom theillustratorjournalsketchbook https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: 2013 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/illustration-friday-signs.html?showComment=1179604380000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ SIGNS ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalsigns https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/12/illustration-friday-winter.html?showComment=1293660689944 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WINTER ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalwinter https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/06/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: June 2008 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournaljune https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2014/07/i-received-wonderful-review-for-book-i.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal I received a wonderful review for the book I wrote and illustrated: The Star Giver. I hope it will be an invitation for many readers to dow... ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2012/03/working-on-this-one.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: working on this one Still not sure where I want to go with this one. It has been through a number of changes... and I keep thinking about where they ... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalworkingone https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/12/dummy-up.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Dummy up... I have considered several styles of dummy for presenting to publishers. In the past I have done the labor intensive stitched kind, with heav... ginger nielsonillustratorjournaldummy https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/09/illustration-friday-welcome.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WELCOME Of course the Welcome Mat is always out! ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalwelcome https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2014/12/it-is-hard-to-believe-it-has-been-so.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal It is hard to believe it has been so long before updating anything on the blog. I try to keep up, but fortunately the assignments I have ca... ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingernielson.com/ Ginger Nielson Illustration Homepage Home site of children's book author and illustrator Ginger Nielson ginger nielsonillustrationhomepage https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2011/06/weather-alert-clouds-are-coming.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Weather Alert : The clouds are coming Another bit of fun in this review for Carla's Cloud Catastrophe, by Beth Bence Reinke. If you like weather, are fascinated by clouds and ... ginger nielson https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/illustration-friday-signs.html?showComment=1179508980000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ SIGNS ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalsigns https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2011/10/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: October 2011 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournaloctober https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/12/conversations-with-myself.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Conversations with myself Each time I revisit this unfinished story I find a new direction for the main character. This scene will definitely stay in the book. The... ginger nielsonconversations withillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/11/illustration-friday-balloon.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ BALLOON This is another one of those illustrations that had an earlier life. It is now part of my banner. Before it looked like this it was a two p... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalballoon https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/05/illustration-friday-wide-reminder.html?showComment=1211659500000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WIDE ... a reminder Where there was once a WIDE expanse of ice mass the latest climate changes have contributed to massive melting. The polar bear is now on the... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustrator https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-seasonal-mailer-ready-to-print.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: New seasonal mailer ready to print I ordered the seasonal mailers today. They will be here in time for mailing to select publishers and a few friends. Henry was kind enough... ginger nielsonjournal new https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2012/06/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: June 2012 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournaljune https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/02/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: February 2008 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalfebruary https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2013/02/illustration-friday-b-whee_1.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Illustration Friday b~ Whee ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalb https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/02/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: February 2010 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalfebruary https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2010/02/head-count.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: The HEAD count I have been working on illustrations for some books for Stemmer House Publishers in NH and for 4RV Publishers in OK. For each assignment I h... ginger nielsonthe headillustratorjournalcount https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/07/another-advantage.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Another Advantage Another advantage of computer programs to create illustrations, is the ability to make a huge sketch into a smaller integrated part of a lar... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalanotheradvantage https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/08/revison-decision.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Revison decision I finally decided on this version... at least for today. And yet... taking a second look at this one with fresh eyes, I think I will extend ... ginger nielsonillustratorjournaldecision https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/08/opening-night-gallery-show.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Opening Night Gallery show Our Son in law, Michael Leopold Schreiber ( aka Nigel) will have his first gallery showing of his Metal Work Sculpture on Sept. 4 at Atomi... ginger nielsonopening nightillustratorjournalgallery https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: 2008 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournal https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/illustration-friday-zoo_24.html?showComment=1196212320000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ ZOO From an interior spread for the book I just illustrated and now available from Stagger Lee Books "Song For A Giraffe" It took almost a year... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalzoo https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/09/illustration-friday-welcome.html?showComment=1252712281500 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ WELCOME Of course the Welcome Mat is always out! ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalwelcome https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/illustration-friday-signs.html?showComment=1179836340000 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ SIGNS ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalsigns https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/07/illustration-friday-hollow.html?showComment=1247358883428 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ HOLLOW This is one of my favorite illustrations from the book, " My African Bedtime Rhymes " by Brettell Hone. I illustrated this last year and i... ginger nielsonillustration fridayillustratorjournalhollow https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/07/little-research.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: A little research I needed do to some active research this morning for my current dummy. Because I want to represent leaves, ferns, berries and pond water I ... ginger nielsona littleillustratorjournalresearch https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-children-never-do-this.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Now children, never do this.... This is one of the illustrations from a book by Brettell Hone, that I had the pleasure of illustrating. The entire experience was a learnin... ginger nielsonillustrator https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2007/11/frosted-leaves.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Frosted Leaves This morning when I was out early with Henry the hound.... we had had a heavy frost and the leaves were ringed with sparkly frost. If it ha... ginger nielsonillustratorjournalfrostedleaves https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2012/09/ Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: September 2012 Welcome to my blog, a journal in words and pictures from the small studio where I work full time as a children's book illustrator. ginger nielsonillustratorjournalseptember https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2008/01/iftales-and-legends-pied-piper_25.html Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: IF~TALES AND LEGENDS ~ THE PIED PIPER Unable to comprehend the seriousness of his actions, the Mayor of Hamelin sought to save money by denying the Piper his pay. Sadly the payme... tales and legends https://gingerpixels.blogspot.com/2015/07/so-you-want-illustrator-for-your-book.html?showComment=1435940672265 Ginger Nielson ~ An Illustrator's Journal: Ah, you are looking for an Illustrator for your book .... There are a few times a week that I will get an email or phone call about my rates or availability for children's book illustrations. Some...