Merry Xmas

We want to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS full of joy and peace



Tomie de Paola Award Entry - Sneeze

This is my Tomie dePaola Award entry.

IF: Refrain

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Refrain",this is an old illo done for a indie comics,thought it could fit the word:)



SkaDaMo 2013 Day 30

I missed day 29 but for the last day of SkaDaMO I thought to draw something that I love to follow.Ice skating is a great sport even if I can't do it:) It's been a great expereince to parteciate and loved to see others illustrators illustrations:)



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 28 (Late)

Few days before December starts and Xmas will arrive soon:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 27 (Late)

They go up and then.....they can't go down!Anyway cats always menage to find someone helping them:)

A gift in my mail

So excited:))See what arrived yestarday in my mail from the great writer and blogger Leandra Wallace.This is a wonderful necklace giveaway for the celebration of Anna Staniszewski new book "My Sort of Fairy Tale Ending"Visit their blog,they are great artists:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 26

An ordinary day at the parkor maybe not :)



SkaDaMo 2013 Day 25

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Shadow",I thoght to use it also for the sketch of the day:)



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 24 (Late)

I lost some days but yestarday I menage to do this little sketch,I love nature but there a some people that really to strange things to photograph nature.



Thanks to Amber Hamilton

A big thanks,(even if a little late) to Amber Hamilton, that used my pig sketch for her poem.Visit her blog, she'a great author and a kind person:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 21

Nothing better for piggy then writing under a tree. 

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 20

 Books always bring us in an other world,this time the other world decided to come for a visit:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 19

This new sketch is also for the Illustration Friday week topic " tail". What happens when in a little zoo two cubs decide to play together and one of them,guess who..,suggest to play Tarzan?

SkaDaMO 2013 Day 18

I lost some days but for day 18 I menage to scan this:) In front of my house there is a wonderful tree and after trying to sketch its sleeves I decided to add  three little tree climbers.



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 14 (late)

Yestarday I haden't the time to scam this, but here you are a little circus sketch.



IF: Energy

This week Illustration Friday is "Energy", we did this some time ago for an indie comics "Night Warrior"andwe thought it was good for this week topic:)

SkaDaMO 2013 Day 13

Probably something you are used to see if you have a dog:) How can you resist to their expressions:)

SkaDaMO 2013 Day 12

A balloon trp is something I'd like to do one of these days,my little friend begun his adventure:)



SkaDaMo 2013 Day 11

Yestarday I didn't menage to do the daily sketch:) But this morning when I woke up and the weather was awfull and rainy I did this little one. The idea came thinking at my little mandarin plant under that downpouer:)



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 9

A 5 minutes sketch for day 9:) Nothing better then a day at the hairdresser.



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 8

Ok,today I hadn't the time to do a real sketch,done this while talking at the phone:) Who said they can't be friends;)



SkaDaMO 2013 Day 6 & 7

 Yesterday I didn't menage to scan the day 6 so here it is.Book time is great with a friend like this:)

Today I skeched more or less what happened yesterday.Wait for the bus can be a very,very long affair:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 5

Skadamo day 5 is arrived. This is another sketch for the Illustration Friday "Secret".Nothing better that an adveture with your best friends:)

SkaDamo 2013 Day 4

For today Skadamo I  used the word for Illustration Friday "Secret". She has a little monster under her bed but is  a secret,no parents allowed. He's a vegetarian monster so a lot of apples for him:)

SkaDaMo 2013 Day 3

Done this in the car of a friend this morning thinking at my boyfriend with me for this shopping day:)



SkaDaMo 2013 Day 2

And Day 2 is done:)A very quick sketch.



SKaDaMo 2013 Day 1

A day at the park:

 here my first sketch for this SkaDaMo 2013.For all november I'll try to post a sketch everyday. Today at the park was so sunny and hot that it was like springtime,what a great First November :)

IF: Creature

Another sketch for Illustration Friday.This week the word was" Creatures". Halloween approaching and maybe somewhere we and all the children doing trick or treat are the real creatures.At the end everything change when the perspective change.So here you can see little creatures at school having a lesson about creatures.This week also I menage to do only a sketch ,hope you like it :)

IF: Entangled

Finally I menaged to do a rough for Illustration Friday.This week topic is "Entangled". What's happen when you have a monster and a jumping rope? I think he has to exercise a little more.

Sweet Award

This morning I received from my dear friend Ruth Schiffmann a super sweet award.She nominated me for Super Sweet Blogging Award.
The rules are: 1. Answer the following five sweet questions 2. Nominate five sweet bloggers.

1. Cookies or Cake? : Too difficul to choose,but if I have I only can say I love cakes.

2. Chocolate or Vanilla? : All my life chocolate,chocolate,chocolate :) but if you have something with vanilla I won't say ...no:)

3. Favorite Sweet Treat? : Not sure to understand the word , but I love puff pastry with apples

4. When Do You Crave Sweet Things The Most? : Every time is the right moment, but after lunch and dinner it's great :)
5. Sweet Nick Name? : Never had a sweet nick name :)

Now, I'd like to share this award with five sweet blogging friends:

Monica Ortiz
Naomi C Robinson
Ottavia
Mirka Breen
Elizabeth W Seaver





Merlin's Ring Cover

Here you can see the cover we've done for Merlin's Ring #1 an upcoming comics copyrighted by Jay LaValley and produced for Affinity Press.

Liebster Award Nomination

This morning the very talented Leandra Wallace nominated me for the Liebster Award. It's a way to help out bloggers with less than 200 followers who could use some more of you awesome people!  Below are the questions I was asked, and my answers.

 1. Who do you credit as being most inspirational in your life?

      Don't know if my answer will be the right one for the question( due my not very good english)    but what inspire me the most are people around me.

2. What is your favorite thing to do on the weekend?

     Relax with my boyfriend and have fun with him and our friends

3. Top three authors?

     Ray Bradbury, Richard Adams and Terry Pratchett and so many others:)

4. Snow or no snow?

    Absolutely snow,I love winter :)

5. If you could visit any city in the world, what one would it be?

    Tokyo is so different from here

6. What is your favorite restaurant?

     Probably you'll say that I'm the tipical italian,but I love pasta and pizza, so my preferred reastaurant is the italian one:)

7. Do you loan your books out?

    Yes I do it, but only if I'm sure that the person  will have the same respect as mine

8. What's the one thing you're sick of seeing on book covers?

     I think that there are too many photomanipulations (I love some of them but in these days when you see a cover,at least here in Italy, they looks like all the same)

9. If you could travel back in time to any major historical moment, what would it be?

    I'd like to travel everywhere back in time,I'm so curious:) but maybe the nineteenth century could be an interesting period to begin wiht.

10. If you could pick a name for yourself, what would it be?

      What a difficult question,I like my name :) but if I have to choose I like Gaia:)

 

Thank you very much Leandra and now it's time for me to pass on the Liebster Award to the following:

 

Angela Sbandelli

Atelier Brigitte

Jane Heinrichs

Mai Kemble

Bron Smith
Dayle Dodwell
Tim Bowers
Ruth Schiffmann

If you choose to accept here are the directions: Link back to the blogger that tagged you. Nominate 5-10 others and answer the questions of the one who tagged you. Then ask 10 questions for the bloggers you nominate as well as letting your nominees know of their award.

And last but not least, here's your questions ( sorry if my english isn't very good and questions very simple):
1. What got you into blogging/Why'd you start blogging?
2. Who inspired you?
3. Favorite food?
4. The place where you love to create
5. Favorite books?
6. Are you for cats ,dogs or other animals?
7. If you can be an historical character,who would you like to be?
8.Your preferred season?
9. A city you love and a city you hate
10. You can't live without...

Have fun:)

 

TOOFS at Story Arts Festival

Here you can see Jennifer Poulter at Story Arts Festival,Woodlands,Ipswich with some of her books and with TOOFS. For this occasion we also did some activity/coloring sheets with Toofs characters:)

TOOFS at Brisbane Writer's Festival

 

First public airing of TOOFS! Alphabet Zoo at Brisbane Writer's Festival, SCBWI Reading sessions 

TOOFS books arrived

See what we found this morning in our post:) Yes our first children's book TOOFS,can't believe we have in our hands:)Thanks to Jennifer Poulter and to Andrea Kwast our publisher :)

Rescue 2

 Always for Rescue topic here another rough, as you can see not everyone want to be rescued:)

While others are waiting only for it:) 



IF: Rescue

This summer I hadn't a lot of times to draw and  to do colored illustrations but I like to do roughs everywhere I am, so for this week Illustration Friday topic "Rescue" I did this little mouse who is trying to rescue this little plant between garbages:)



 

 





TOOFS is available to order

This morning we received a great news,our first children's book "TOOFS" illustrated by us and writter by Australian authors Jennifer and Estelle Poulter is available on the PUBLISHER WEBSITE, TELL ME A STORY BOOKS

 



Toofs reviews by Dr Virgina Lowe

 

I received from our author Jennifer Poulter a lovely review about our children's book "Toofs" done by author,editor and CBCA judge Dr Virginia Lowe :

Toofs by Jennifer Poulter and Estelle Poulter, illustrated by Monica Rondino and Andrea Pucci (Tell Me a Story Series, Laidley Publishers)

A topic I have never seen tackled in a picture book before, but quotidian one that affects us daily – at least while we share the house with a teething baby.

He’s learning just what teeth will do.
They’ll munch and crunch and, yes, they’ll chew!

In this case the baby is a [wolf] cub, but the teething effect is the same – and the solution also Mum and Dad suggest coping mechanisms for baby’s sibling.

We are so happy about this review and we hope to write soon about the release of the book:)

                                                                    

 



IF: Jungle

 

I didn't be a great blogger in this period, I didn't have the time to post something for Illustration Friday.But this week at last I menage to do a sketch for the topic "Jungle".Why don't use our home plants to do an inhouse jungle:) 

IF: Robot

Andrea did this for this week Illustration Friday topic "Robot" Even in a robots world there is always a dad with a gift for his children:)

Flame of Cybertron

Andrea did this fanart using Painter and Photoshop.



IF: Sweet

 

This week IF topic is"Sweet",while working on a new children's book we did this just for fun:)

Akira Contest

We did this illustration for an Akira Contest

IF: Future

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Future"

We thought that this little illustration came out while we were doodling with Photoshop could be a nice way to come back to Illustration Friday after so long. 

TOOFS

 

A sneak peek of me and Andrea upcoming book, TOOFS by Australian authors Jennifer and Estelle Poulter, to be launched end of June and published by Tell me a story books 

Transformers classic fanart

While waiting for the third transformers season "Beast Hunters", Andrea drawn just for fun this Transformers Prime.