Final day of Imagined Book Cover

Above: Sudden Strangeness

Above: Marina Henina

It’s a last day of #theimaginedbookcover2025 and the prompt is Becky Pinkerton's Bicycle'. What is wonderful about Monty's challenges is that you find so many wonderful illustrators and that it is an incredible supportive welcoming community. Please check out all of the artists links on their names and see what joy you can find in these marvellous portfolios. 

Above: Sarah Cathcart Anderson Below: Monty Lee

Above: Hazel Terry Below Nella Gatica

Above: Emilia Wharfe Below Mia Sedding

Day 3 'The Cat and Lord Snodbury'

 

Above: Isobel Ross's collaged grandure for 'The Cat and Lord Snodbury' day three's imagined book cover challenge designed by Monty Lee. As usual as the challenge is worldwide I will add posts as the challenge matures. 

Above: The dark and delicious cover of Ellie Marianchik. Below a cheeky cat by Marina Henina.

Above: a soft snowy scene by Lisa Hagspiel. Below: Vintage style alchemy by Katya Tabakh.

Above: A wry companionship by Christiane Fürtges. Below: Jacquie Hughes

Above: Nella Gatica

Mary Poppins Challenge Day 5

Day five of the Mary Poppins Challenge:

 "Mary Poppins took the sparkling gingerbread stars from her basket and glued them to the sky, where they twinkled furiously,  sending out rays of golden light." PL Travers

 Above: Katya Klimova Below: Marina Henina

Above: Lara Peres Rocha, Below: Katya Klesse

Above: Mariia Tikhonova Below: Stephanie de Coo

Above: a wonderful monochrome illustration by Katja Kudjakam. Below: Bright collage by Anna (Macaskill) Malyon

Below: Lena Afanaseva

Tiny Tetrapak Prints Day 2

 

Above: Deborah J Stein

Above a tender image by Ehud Neuhaus. Below: Ellie Marianchik

Above: Print and plate by Katya Klimova

Above: Marina Henina

Above: Nathan Carr

Above: Karen Dubrovsky

 

Pinocchio Challenge

A wee reminder that this month of Pinocchio posts is in support of Monty Lee's Pinocchio challenge (Monty's illustration above) which I am one of the co-hosts. With:

Deborah J Stein (above)

Sudden Strangeness (above)

Marina Henina (above)

Lynn Harvey (above)

Kate Fedos (above)

Brigida Magro (above)

Hannah Bessross (above) 

Oliver St Gabriel (above)

"Book Series Challenge - Pinocchio "

The 7 prompts for the next challenge in the Book Series: Pinocchio: 

1. It was a wild and stormy night. Pinocchio had a great fear of thunder but hunger was stronger than fear, he therefore made a rush to the village. 

2. The embraces that Pinocchio received from the excited actors and actresses (all puppets) of the puppet company beat description. 

3. But Pinocchio had not gone far when he met on the road a fox lame with one foot and a cat blind with both eyes... 

4. The doctors came immediately one after the other: namely a crow, an owl and a talking cricket. 

5. Pinocchio swam and swam but to his surprise he found himself enclosed in a great net, together with a swarm of fish of every size and shape, who were flapping and struggling like so many desperate souls.

6. Pinocchio (who'd turned into a donkey) was sold to the director of a company of buffoons and tightrope dancers, who bought him that he might teach him to leap and dance with the other animals. 

7. Pinocchio, who took the candle in his hand, and Gepetto climbed up the throat of the sleeping sea monster and having reached his immense mouth they began to walk on tiptoe down his tongue. ......

The challenge will start on the 4th of March and will run for 7 days so there's plenty of time to prepare.

Please note there are TWO hashtags every day:

HASHTAGS:
[  ] bkspinocchio (always the same)

[  ] bkspinocchio1 (the number changes daily!!!!) - see the prompt list for correct numbering