°0° But... Who's there ? °0°

    Mais oui ! C'est bien un petit livre qui pointe le bout de son nez !!
Après plusieurs démarchages, du travail, du démarchage à nouveau, et encore du travail... Mon deuxième petit livre publié est enfin là ! Et c'est grâce à ma tatie, qui écrit sous le nom de Suzanne Max, que j'ai pu donner vie à ce texte avec mes illustrations.
Je suis tellement heureuse qu'il soit là !!! :D

Il s'agit d'un adorable conte pour se préparer tout en douceur pour Noël sur fond de légendes. À l'intérieur se trouvent deux illustrations en couleurs ainsi que deux en noir et blanc.
Il est possible de le commander à petit prix directement sur le site de la maison d'édition :

https://editions-exaequo.fr/

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    Well yes ! It definitely is a little book that is showing the tip of its nose !!

After lots of prospection, work, prospection again, and some more work... My second published little book is here at last ! And it is thanks to my aunt, who is writing under the name of Suzanne Max, that I could give life to this text with my illustrations.

I am so very happy that it is here !!! :D

It is about a lovely tale to get softly prepared for Christmas with some legends background. Inside are two colour illustrations as well as two blacka nd white ones. Sorry it is only in French but for those interested anyway, you can check it out at this link :

https://editions-exaequo.fr/

*° I'm still alive...

... and I have LOTS of news !!! °*

    As I really have a lot of things to say, I will write exlusively in English, otherwise it would take me forever to write in both versions :D

Gosh, almost one year since I haven't posted anything in here... That actually saddens me because my blog is the first place where I've ever started to post my work online. But the reality is that a blog post is taking some more time to do and I really don't have here the visibility not the interaction that I have with other social medias.
Anyway, it was still important to me to come back to it at one point or another.

Like I said, I have a lot of things to say. Maybe I won't say everything in details but let's start by the most recent and the biggest of all :

I NOW HAVE AN ONLINE SHOP ! :D

It is for now on Etsy and you can find there all the postcards for my seasonal animals, as well as some prints and felt decoration figurines :) More things will come but it was already a lot of work to come to that, so let's see how it goes !

You can access by clicking on the picture ^^

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After this big announcement, I think I can show you part of what you will find on the store, which is to say : my summer animals series !! They've been done last month so this is still quite new. I'm slowly completing the collection as I have only the autumn animals now remaining. So for this time, may I introduce you the flamingo (that you already know), the sea turtle, the koala and the mouse !! :)

You may also have noticed my signature changed on the way. Yayyy ! It's because I revamped my logo completely, to have something fitting much better with my personality and with my work ^^

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Finally, out of the things I can share and want to share, I will drop here three characters that I painted for a two-day long workshop I did in February.
These two days were magic. Exhausting but full of emotions and discoveries. The first day was with two small groups of children from 7 to 15 years old. We illustrated together a character from a tale that we could identify with. And on the second day, I was with two classes of 6 and 7 year-old children. This time, they had chosen a story with their teacher and we illustrated it together.
To read about my whole experience and see some pictures, you can go to the Facebook post I wrote.

As of now, I will just the three original characters that I had created to give some inspiration to the children of the first day and help them find strong figures they could identify with. 
To read their story, I invite you again to go on my Facebook page. I've written the synopsis for two of their tales.

And with that, I will stop for now !
I'll try to come write here again in less than 10 months, I promise ! :D
But as of now, it's kind of late, I'm tired, and I think I already shared enough for one single post ^^

So if there are still people coming over here, I hope you enjoyed what you saw and you are interested to follow me more, I invite you to join me either on Facebook, on Instagram (@justinefillustration)... Or both ! :D

<3

Chapter one : DONE !

    Hello ! :)
En ce moment, j'ai pas mal de projets qui se préparent et ce weekend j'ai terminé le premier de la saison. J'ai super hâte de vous le montrer, c'est quelque chose qui était en préparation depuis Noël dernier !! Je vous laisse sur ce petit aperçu et vous dit à bientôt pour la suite ! :)

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    Hello! :)
These days I have quite a lot of projects in the making, and this weekend I finished the first one of the season. I really can't wait to show it to you, this is something that has been planned since last Christmas !! I leave you with this preview and I'll see you later for what's next! :)

° Typography & Animals °

    À l'occasion du baptême d'une nouvelle venue dans la famille, j'ai réalisé ce petit dessin avec son prénoms et comme deux animaux totem, reprenant l'idée que j'avais eue pour créer l'affiche du salon Dévore-Livres :)
Si l'idée vous plaît, n'hésitez pas à me laisser un message expliquant votre projet, je serais ravie de prendre votre commande !

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    At the occasion of the baptism for a newly arrived in the family, I realised this little frawing with her name and like two totem animals, using again the idea I had had to create the poster for the book fair-trade Dévore-Livres :)
If you like the idea, do not hesitate to leave me a message explaining your project, I would be glad to take your commission !

**°° Christmas, Winter, Snow... °°**

    I have weeks of delay, but that way I will be able to give a very long post with many pictures, and I hope you'll like :)
Right above is the last winter animal that I finished for my bi project that was my very first Christmas market ever ! Just like the spring animals, those four new illustrations were meant to be printed as postcards and fine art prints.

I let you discover below what my table was loking like on the market, and all the products I presented there.

Note that I still have some necklaces, postcards and fine art prints in stock, so if you're interested in one, just leave me a comment ;)



Postcard : 1,90€
Fine art print (20x20cm) : 20€

Necklace with figure painted : 12€
Necklace left "nature" : 10€

°°° Deer Family ! °°°

    Après un bon moment de doute et quelques difficultés, voilà enfin le troisième animal de l'hiver terminé ! Si tout va bien, il n'en manque plus qu'un pour compléter la collection et vous en révéler un peu plus sur le projet !! :)

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    After a good moment of doubt and some struggles, here is at last the third winter animal finished ! If everything goes well, there is only one left to complete the collection and reveal a bit more about the project it's from !! :)

L'appel de la forêt...

    Je suis un peu en retard, mais voici l'animal qui se cachait derrière ce parterre de neige et de pommes de pin :) Un loup rêveur qui attend peut-être l'arrivée du Père Noël... ^^
Je vous dis à très bientôt pour la suite !

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    I am a bit late, but here is the animal that was hiding behind this stalls covered with snow and pinecones :) A dreaming wolf that's maybe waiting for Santa Claus to come... ^^
See you very soon for the rest !

Enter the white winter...

    Continuons avec le décor pour mon nouvel animal... Lequel sera-t-il ? Suspense !! ;) Mais vous pouvez déjà voir un thème resurgir avec le précédent post, et si vous m'avez suivie durant cette année, peut-être avez-vous déjà une idée de ce que cela va devenir... ^^

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    Let's continue with the setting for my new animal... Which one will it be ? Suspense !! ;) But you can already see a theme coming through with the previous post, and if you've followed my work during that year, maybe you already have an idea of what it will turn into... ^^

** Frozen pinguin **

    Et voilà un pingouin terminé ! On continue avec la suite du projet et je vous en dis plus très très bientôt ! :)

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    And here is a finished pinguin ! Let's continue with what's next for the project and I tell you more about it very very soon ! :)

*°*° The countdown is starting ! *°*°

    Dès aujourd'hui, et ce pour les 4 prochaines semaines, je vais alimenter ce blog comme jamais ! Plein de super nouvelles à venir, avec plein de nouvelles illustrations ^^
Je vais économiser mes mots pour le moment et vous présente mon nouveau petit compagnon à venir... à très bientôt !!! :)

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    From today and for the next 4 weeks, I will feed this blog as never before ! Many great news to come, with many new illustrations ^^
I will spare some words for now and will just introduce you to my new little friend to come... See you very soon !!! :)

!! Many news !!

 

Here they are !!!

    This is what my "secret project" was all about ! My spring animals have been made in collaboration with the little shop Harjun Paperi in Jyväskylä, Finland. And here is the result, four brand new postcards. On sale in the shop since Tuesday and on their Facebook page, these postacards have already been sent to reprint ;)

I am really, really happy about this project because I loved painting those animals and most of all, I'm happy I've been trusted. And it seems it has success ! :)

For those who don't live in Finland and would be interested in buying one of or all the cards, you can leave me a comment or just send me a mail to the adress at the right top of the page : justinef.illu@ymail.com

I have some in stock myself ;) 

    And to make this experience even greater, I have been offered just a bit more than a week ago to settle an exhibition along with two other classmates of mine. We are all studying Finnish in this "school for adults" but the same building include also no other than the main library of the city, which is also the main library of the whole area of Central-Finland ! It started on Friday the 6th and will stay until the 20th. It is a real pleasure, albeit a bit of pressure, to expose there :)

    But because two never comes without three, I have a third great piece of news to announce.
I have been invited this year again to a meeting around the book, organized by the bookshop La Portée des Mots in Salon-de-Provence, France ! These adorable people had welcomed me already last spring to present my work and sign my freshly released book.
This meeting starts at 10, on the place down from the castle, and it's going to be amazing I'm sure ^^ I can't wait to be there !!!

 

On the road... To a new story

   Aujourd'hui, je vous offre un post un peu spécial puisque très personnel.
En ce jour du 23 Octobre 2015, cela fait très exactement 4 mois que je suis partie à l'aventure. L'aventure de ma nouvelle vie.

Depuis ma Provence natale, j'ai rabattu le frein à main et roulé jusqu'en Finlande, mon nouveau pays. Allemagne, Danemark, Suède... Autant de merveilleux paysages qui m'ont accompagnée durant ces deux jours et demi de voyage. Je voulais en partager donc quelques extraits ici, sous une forme assez modeste mais à laquelle j'ai réfléchi pendant pas mal de temps.

Je n'ai que peu de choses à rajouter à ces photos, si ce n'est qu'elles ne sont qu'une infime partie de toutes les merveilles que je découvre et vis chaque jour. Et certaines de ces merveilles sont des sensations tellement intimes qu'elles ne peuvent pas être photographiées, mais elles n'en sont pas moins intenses, bien au contraire.

Je ne pense pas prendre trop de risques en disant que je suis actuellement plus heureuse que je ne l'ai sûrement jamais été :)

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   Today, I'm offering you quite a special post since it is very personal.
In this 23rd October 2015, it's been exactly 4 months that I went onto an adventure. The adventure of my new life.

From my native Provence, I pushed down the break and drove all the way up to Finland, my new country. Germany, Denmark, Sweden... As many wonderful landscapes that were alongside me during those two-day-and-a-half-long trip. I then wanted to share some extracts of it here, under a rather modest shape but about which I thought for quite a long time.

I have barely nothing to add to those pictures, except for the fact that they are only a tiny piece of all the wonders I am discovering and living every day. And some of those wonders are so intimate sensations that they can't be photographed, but they are not less intense, that's all the opposite.

I think I don't take too many risks by saying that I am currently happier than I have ever been :)

 

Olen onnellinen ja rakastunut :)

Nouvelles d'ici... News from abroad

  Ce que ça fait drôle d'avoir son article dans le journal ! En tout cas, j'en suis ravie :) Pélissanne, mon cher et tendre petit village, m'aura décidément beaucoup apporté !!

Et je rappelle, pour les personnes dans les alentours de Salon-de-Provence, que je serai à la librairie La Portée des Mots ce samedi 13 juin à partir de 15h pour une rencontre-dédicaces !! :)

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  Oh how it feels weird to have one's own article in the newspaper ! No matter what, I'm delighted about it :) Pélissanne, my dear and sweet little village, will have definitely opened a lot to me !!
(I may provide a translation for you soon, dear English-speakers :))

Dévore-Livres à Pélissanne !

 

 Hier, c'était le salon du livre jeunesse à Pélissanne, celui-là même pour lequel j'ai créé l'affiche des "mots à la louche". J'y ai animé un atelier avec les enfants, où ils ont pu dessiner leurs propres lettres-animaux. Et puis j'ai aussi dédicacé mon livre ! Et fait de belles rencontres.

En conclusion, j'ai passé une journée magique sous un grand soleil d'été !

Je remercie encore Jocelyne, Fabien, Juliette et toutes les personnes qui travaillent à la médiathèque et au service communication de Pélissanne pour m'avoir permis de vivre toutes ces belles choses, de la création jusqu'au salon :)

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Yesterday, it was the children books' exhibition in Pélissanne, the exact one for which I created the "mots à la louche" poster. I've animated a workshop with children there, where they could draw their own animals-letters. And I've also dedicated my book ! And met lovely people.

In a nutshell, I've spent a magical day under a bright summer sun !

I thank once again Jocelyne, Fabien, Juliette and all the people working in the library and in the communication service of Pélissanne for having allowed me to live all those lovely things, from the creation up to the exhibition :)