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Monday, March 31, 2014 10:01:35 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Where have you been Jellybean?:
Samantha said, "Hello there, I have missed your wonderful face. Would you like a cup of gorgeous geisha green tea? It is my new very favourite. I made biscuits. But then I had to eat them all because they were full of chocolate and pecans. I even pressed my finger..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 3:03:30 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Once Upon A Time:
Samantha said, "I had a simply splendid weekend. It was filled with painting and music and the good company of talented illustrators from the SCBWI WA chapter. (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.) We spent this weekend painting a mural in the..." more
Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:11:01 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Asian Festival of Children's Content:
Samantha said, "In one week I will be in the amazing city of Singapore getting ready to speak at the Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC). This festival truly is a smorgasboard of treats for anyone interested in creating and sharing books, television or..." more
Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:09:18 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Chocolate for breakfast:
Samantha said, "One of my very favourite photos from my childhood shows a very round toddler grasping a chocolate rabbit in her fat little fists. Around her is the debris of all the other bunnies, all with their foil peeled back and their ears bitten off. In the..." more
Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:33:15 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Make Things:
Samantha said, "Making makes me happy! Whether it's baking brownies or painting on envelopes or sewing little felt creatures... using my hands and my brains to make beautiful and lovely things lifts my spirits and gives me a sense of pride. I have lots of new..." more
Friday, March 22, 2013 12:03:02 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Cardigans Are The Best!:
Samantha said, "I've been tidying up my wardrobe and I am happy to report that my cardigans (and all my other clothes) are once again arranged in rainbow colour order. It gives me with a little thrill in the morning to open wide my wardobe doors and see my colour..." more
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:44:00 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Who Wants To Play Video Games?:
Samantha said, "I do!!! Is there anything better than settling in for the weekend and playing video games in your pants? Well, maybe playing video games and making things and eating freshly baked decadent chocolate brownies. How's your weekend shaping up?Gouache..." more
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:44:20 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Zombies Love To Dance - Mail Me Art:
Samantha said, "I was super excited to be invited to participate in Mail Me Art this year. I saw the last book and thought it was such a brilliant idea - inviting artists to decorate envelopes and then mail them off into the wilderness of the postal system to..." more
Monday, March 4, 2013 10:06:18 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Doodly Tuesday:
Samantha said, "I was having a bad art day. The kind where the page is filled with silence. In times like this I find putting on a classic, well loved film helps reset the mood in my studio. Having feel-good music or movies on in the background while I make things..." more
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:30:08 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Sometimes Fashion - Birthday edition:
Samantha said, "I am not a Summer Person. I love the light, but I do not love the heat. I am a Cardigan Girl, which is not a great match for the weather we have in our city for a large portion of the year. (Although the arctic air-conditioning at work does help out..." more
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:57:59 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Sometimes Fashion - Cardigan and Bunny edition:
Samantha said, "I have a pretty enormous wardrobe. Ok ok, I have three wardrobes, and I may need to construct a shoe-seum at some point in my lifetime. I like the notion that fashion is another form of art-play in my daily life and so, every now and then I am going..." more
Saturday, February 16, 2013 6:03:54 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled I heart you:
Samantha said, "It was midnight on Valentines Eve. We snuck downstairs with our hearts in our hands. Quite literally. We were clutching strings of paper hearts we had just spent an hour putting together on the kitchen floor. I had cut the hearts out of pink and red..." more
Monday, February 11, 2013 10:42:23 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Doodly Tuesday:
Samantha said, "Ooh, this is a fine little shape. Perhaps it will be a giant tooth monster? Find out after the jump...Cat Lady drawn with pencil and my lovely brush pen in the Turrety House StudioSurprise! It's a cat lady. What would you have made out of this shape?"
Monday, February 4, 2013 9:34:12 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Doodly Tuesday:
Samantha said, "Here we are with another fine random shape, all squidgy and roundy. Any guesses? Let's see what is waiting after the jump... Oh of course. Monsters with bunting! Drawn with my lovely brush marker in the Turrety House Studio."
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:50:06 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Cloud People like jam too:
Samantha said, "Jam Jam Jam! I am super-stoked to have been accepted into this little slice of awesome - the next Mail Me Art exhibition. Art in the form of mail? What a delicious and delightful distraction! I'm doing a few warm-up paintings to see just how much..." more
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:58:04 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Doodly Tuesday:
Samantha said, "Every year I escape with a group of friends to a retreat for writers and illustrators on Rottnest Island. And every year we come up with fabulous drawing games to keep ourselves amused as we wait in the cafe for the ferry to arrive. One of my..." more
Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:04:01 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled The Cardigan Club:
Samantha said, "New Years Resolutions, eh. I make them and forget them just like everyone else does. But I really like this years resolutions to focus on family and art and living a bit more simply, so hopefully that will give them more stickyness as the year..." more
Monday, December 24, 2012 1:27:16 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Merry Happy!:
Samantha said, "Wishing you all the right words and an abundance of art for the festive season and the new year."
Friday, November 30, 2012 7:52:55 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Markety Goodness:
Samantha said, "This Sunday it's the Made On The Left market! Huzzah!I've been painting up a storm with lots of mini art treats. There will be miniature paintings, badges, prints, monster matryoshka dolls and more! Here is a sneak peek at some of my new wooden eggs..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 7:52:55 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Big Red Viking:
Samantha said, "I've been lurking around the blogosphere, soaking up inspiration from fabulous illustrators and artists. I discovered Noelle Stevenson this week, and her fabulous Ginger Haze tumblr. Gah! I'll admit it, I've got a little bit of a girl..." more
Monday, June 18, 2012 8:30:09 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Wriggled and jiggled:
Samantha said, "One of my gorgeous friends had a baby recently. And you know what that means (apart from enormous amounts of squeeeee!) it means presents! So we made this awesome matryoshka set for the new little baby - The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.I thoroughly..." more
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:28:21 PM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled From little things:
Samantha said, "I'm finally starting the paintings for my book of short stories. It's been lovely dipping back into these dark little tales and deciding which ones I'm going to paint for my submission. (I'll be sending it to to one of my favourite publishers Friday..." more
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:54:06 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Where you been Jellybean?:
Samantha said, "I've been here on the other side of the screen. Typing and drawing and writing and designing up a storm in the world of Storytopia. I have just finished an amazing commission for a kids collectible card game - The Hairy Tales of Heroboy! It..." more
Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:34:00 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled Chicken Licken:
Samantha said, "I loved Chicken Licken when I was little - that wonderful feeling of superiority over the silly chick who thought the sky was falling, and of course there were those joyful nonsense names. I was always deeply taken into the world stories as a child..." more
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:58:08 AM
Samantha Hughes wrote a blog post titled I'm having a SALE!:
Samantha said, " Come on over to Etsy and join in my little Festivus party! I will be adding lots of discounted original art as part of my Studio Spring Clean. Plus I have lots of gorgeous little lovely things that would make perfect Christmas..." more