Inktober 2017

For the first time, this year I participated in Inktober – an annual challenge for artists to do a daily ink drawing. No erasing. I used a list of witchy word prompts designed by Julianna Swaney (you can see her beautiful work...

A Writing with the Stars Update!

Hello again! Tara Luebbe from BeckyTara Books asked if I would do a follow-up post for them about my experience as a Writing With the Stars Mentoree (Mentee? Hmmmm…) So I did! Here’s the link, for those who are interested in what Lori and I got up to! WWTS...

Postcard time!

Illustrators are often told that postcards are one of the best promotional tools available to us.  Editors and Art Directors at publishing houses will save their favourites, and refer back to them when looking for illustrators, and so the hope is that your postcard...

Making a Header

I just made this new header for the website, and to go along the tops of my query letters, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the process that went into it! First, here is the finished header, full size: I knew that I wanted something that would tie into...

The Store is Open

Hello! I just created a store on RedBubble! Here is the link that will take you directly to it: https://www.redbubble.com/people/LaurenSoloy/shop And here are some of the many items you will find!...