Purple Island Award for Dépêche-toi!
My illustrations for Dépêche-toi! (Hurry Up!) have won a Purple Island Award in the Nami Concours! 18 prizes were distributed with the Grand Prize going to Polish designer, Malgorzata Gurowska, for her book, “The Locomotive.” The Nami Concours is a biennial international children’s book illustration competition that aims to give winners global exposure and inspire others to higher […]
Animal chess for Grilled Cheese magazine
The editors at Grilled Cheese (the bilingual magazine for kids) invited me to design and illustrate a board game for their Play issue. I decided to adapt a game that my father played with me when I was a kid : Chinese animal chess. This is a game of strategy but with very simple rules that children […]
Double sided mask for Grilled Cheese magazine
For the Play issue of Grilled Cheese magazine, I created this double-sided mask – a tiger on one side and a jungle to be colored on the other. The magazine was printed on a Risograph (a printing machine that’s a bit between photocopying and screen printing. Like screen printing, you can only print one color at a […]
Petit Lion comes to life at Raffin
It was lots of fun meeting new friends of all ages at the signings we held for Petit Lion. Katia Courteau-Pairoux did a dynamic reading of Petit Lion (pictured above) at Raffin book shop at Plaza Saint-Hubert in Montreal last month. Starting with an introduction about colors and weather (our story takes place in the tropics and it was minus 25 Celsius […]
Big Year for the Birds
2014 has been a big year for the birds, or rather, the birdhouses that I drew for La Presse+ last December. The illustrations were recognized in three different competitions in 2014 – Applied Arts in Toronto, Canada, 3×3 Professional Show #11, New York and the 3×3 Picture Book Show #11, New York. Three different juries […]
