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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! The Children's Book Review (call sign TCBR) is declaring a reading emergency. The weather is clear and suitable for reading outside.

Meg Hunt is an illustrator who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and creates drawings, paintings and prints.

Some of Meg’s work uses a traditional/digital approach in which inked drawings are colored digitally with textures of pencils, and then more ink layered in and colored to complete the illustration. Meg’s illustration process seems informed by her printmaking background in the way that the separate colored elements build up the final composition.

Meg also posts sketchbook work of pencils and ink drawings on her blog and portfolio site at MegHunt.com.

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Drawn mega-pal Meg Hunt has posted a gorgeous short video of her solo show, Cosmic Forest, currently up at Portland’s Land Gallery. I had the great fortune of seeing the show in-person last weekend, and… well, it’s hard not to gush over a friend’s work anyway, but this show truly is superb. Meg’s linework and drybrush and colors (the colors!) and the tantalizing tease of a narrative that drifts across the collection of work is just awesome.

If you’re in Portland or nearby, make the trip before the show comes down! If you’re too far to see it with your eyeballs, don’t miss Meg’s Flickr set, linked below.

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Okay! So it’s a lovely Friday in Portland and one week later, I have lots of documentation from Cosmic Forest, including the video above. Again, all this stuff was shot by my awesome intern, and it’s a lot of fun to see stuff in motion. If nothing else, it was a perfect summer show.

Cloudy Collection is excited to announce our latest special edition print set, honoring and including the inimitable Ed Emberley. There are two “Monster Parade”-themed prints available: one 8”x10” four-color letterpress made exclusively for Cloudy Collection by Ed Emberley, and the other is a set of fifteen (plus one!) 4”x6” four-color screen prints by Ed Emberley, his daughter Rebecca Emberley, S. Britt, Tad Carpenter, Maura Cluthe, Becky Dreistadt, Bob Flynn, Meg Hunt, David Huyck, John Martz, Caleb Neelon, ;Heather Ross, Souther Salazar, Bwana Spoons, and Nate Wragg.

A portion of the sales of these prints will go to Heifer International, providing reliable sources of food to women and families in developing nations, and to the Central Asia Institute, which provides books and literacy and educational opportunities to girls and women in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Get one or the other or both sets right now at Cloudy Collection!

I’ve already posted about the Authors for Japan auction, which started yesterday and runs for the rest of this week: there are some very tempting lots on offer, so take a look. All money raised will be paid directly to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

Through one of the donors, Rachel J. Fenton, who is offering a Hand-made artist’s pamphlet of poetry and art work, I discovered another initiative that’s being set up to raise money for Japan: booksthathelp.org is proposing to create New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan, “a collection of stories and poems and art honoring and celebrating Japan”.

Here’s what they need:

your stories, poems, and artwork (see their submission page)
your tweets and blogs and vlogs and facebooks (see their helping out page)
your eyeballs and discerning literary and artistic judgement (see their helping out page)

They would welcome any submissions that are “relevant to or evocative of Japan” – including manga and microfiction… They will then be donating 100% of the proceeds to a charity working with the relief effort in Japan. And “they”, by the way, are authors Sessha Batto, Frankie Sachs (who would love to be able to include a wood-cut), Elle, Susan May James, Solange Noir and Michelle Goode.

Then, thanks to Playing by the Book, I’m able to pass on two more initiatives which have both put the call out for illustrators:

Art for Japan, set up by sisters Meg and Alice Hunt, is calling on any “cartoonist, illustrator, designer, animator, crafter, fine artist, etc.” for donations of work to be auctioned on eBay in early April. Anyone who can help is asked to email artforjapan2011ATgmailDOTcom; for full details go here.

And Illustration Rally has launched Ganbare Nippon: Don’t Give Up Japan, calling out for both original artwork to auction and submissions to their Rally for Japan, from which they plan to produce merchandise to sell – “so please give us your best imag

Arrrrrrrgh! from Meg Hunt on Vimeo.

http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/02/vorrei-avere-topipittori.html (Thanks to Andrea Marazzi!)

http://www.meghunt.com/#198140/Animals

http://www.jlindenberger.ch/work/cardgame/overview.html

I am very excited to announce the launch of Picture Book Report, fifteen illustrators creating a new scene from their favourite books every month. The project was created and is organized by Meg Hunt who kicks things off with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Each artist will show off a title/bookplate for their chosen books, and then every month you’ll be treated to an illustration from each of them. The impressive lineup includes Andrea Kalfas, Daniel Krall, Israel Sanchez, Jeremy Sorese, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Kali Ciesemier, Laura Park, Lizzy Stewart, Meg Hunt, Phil McAndrew, PMurphy, S.britt, Sam Bosma, Will Bryant, and myself.

For a peek into what to expect, Sam has been posting some concept drawings for his take on a certain short, hairy-footed, ring-toting hill-dweller.

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Radiolab is my favourite thing on the airwaves. Or podwaves, or whatever you want to call them. And now the science and philosophy podcast for the layman has been treated to a tribute by some of my favourite designers and illustrators. In Radiolab We Trust is a set of affordable Gocco screenprints being sold to benefit Radiolab and its parent station, WNYC New York Public Radio.

The prints are the work of Jez Burrows, Frank Chimero, Nicholas Felton, Meg Hunt, and Impactist. And dig that perfect logo.

Here’s Frank Chimero’s print, taken from Jez Burrows’s Flickr set of the prints:

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Wondering what other illustrators’ mailers look like? Illustration Promo showcases postcards and other promotional pieces from a variety of illustrators. Here’s a postcard from our friend Meg Hunt.

You’re invited to submit your own promos as well!