Monday 27 January 2014

Mini Grey

Mini Grey sounds like an amazing lady! So please check out her website at the end of this post. She was given her name after being born in a mini car park in South Wales. On her way to becoming an illustrator she sis a Foundation course in Fine Art, studied for an English degree at UCL, also worked as a theatre designer and a primary school teacher, and then studied for an MA in sequential design which was at Brighton University. She made the decision to learn to write her children's book herself, especially as finding someone to write them for her would be more difficult. And from then on she has realised and illustrated many books which I can show you now. I love how some are taken from a fairy tale and twisted to make her own. I'll show a few examples.

Biscuit Bear





The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon




Three by the Sea




Her illustrations are so intriguing. There is actually a lot more going on than you originally think, and that keeps me wanting to look more and more! It's also been cleverly done because the pages aren't ever over crowded. 



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