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This is but a ‘see you later’. See also: Auld Lang Syne
A monthly dispatch from me, Judith P. Raynault, about my illustrations, inspirations, and general talk about the creative process.
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This is but a ‘see you later’. See also: Auld Lang Syne

When I picked up illustration again in 2017, I did it on an iPad. It was easy. Going analogue requires more. More time to set-up, more light, more stuff.

Our feet shifted the path’s fine, golden-white dust as we walked around the Jardin des Tuileries.

The low winter sun was streaming through the trees, casting blue shadows on the snow. The brook water could be seen here and there, like black shimmering holes...

I’ve always been intimidated by collages. What do you mean just leaf through a magazine or two, cut out a few things and create something out of them?

I started the year by finishing a book cover illustration.

the Christmas tree

Dolores—or Dolo, as she liked to be called because she hated her name—was absent-mindedly paddling around in the swimming pool.

I never knew my maternal grandmother, she died years before I was born.

In which I'm concluding the creative process behind the illustration I submitted to the Folio Book Illustration Award 2025