Oregon Illustrator News
We're glad you're here!
Hello, Oregon Illustrators! Whether you’re a current or future PAL, prefer picture books or graphic novels, work digitally or on paper, or wear multiple kidlit hats, you can come here for illustration-specific news and information. If you have questions about events or want to be more involved in our region, reach out to Robin at oregon-ic@scbwi.org or Jordan at oregon-ic2@scbwi.org. Check back often for the latest news!
Featured Illustrator
Oregon SCBWI is proud to feature one Illustrator member each month. Below you’ll find information about this month's artist, Ryan Bear, and links to their portfolio. We encourage you to take a few minutes to learn about this Oregon Illustrator and to enjoy their artwork. If you would like to be featured, contact Robin at: oregon-ic@scbwi.org
SCBWI Oregon Illustrator Opportunities
Winter Home Page Artist: Francie Towne
Each season we feature a different Illustrator's work on our homepage. Francie Towne is featured this winter. She lives in a small, noisy house in Bend, Oregon with three October-loving kids, a nerdy, chemistry-teaching husband and a cat named Figgy Pudding. If you would like to be featured as our seasonal artist, contact Robin and Jordan at: oregon-ic@scbwi.org or oregon-ic2@scbwi.org
Jessica Lynch-Jonely: Draw This Winner!
Congratulations, Jessica, for submitting (and winning!) the October Draw This challenge. You're inspiration to all of us to value our work and keep submitting! Jessica Lynch-Jonely is an author/illustrator who enjoys writing silly and imaginative stories, and playing with color and texture in her illustration pieces. When Jessica isn’t writing and illustrating picture books, or reading them to her kids, she can probably be found knitting, or baking something. (She has been known to stockpile yarn and butter like it’s doomsday rations.) Her sons, ages 9 and 5, keep her imagination in high gear, and provide plenty of inspiration for her stories and art. Jessica lives with her husband, her children, her dog, her cat, and an accidental tortoise, at the very end of the Oregon Trail, in a house that is probably haunted.
