The brief for this project was to reimagine Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale, The Wind in the Willows.
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I wanted to capture the traditional feel of the book whilst also showing moments of humour, without the illustrations becoming overtly whimsical.
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Using a restricted colour pallette, I combined the traditional mediums of pen and ink and monoprinting with digital collage to create the illustrations.
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I worked on this project during my final year of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.