Patrizia Donaera Illustrations

New Book : The Prince and The Pauper

2012-03-04T16:03:00.000+01:00

A new book " The Prince and the Pauper " has been recently released.

I illustrated the English novel written by Mark Twain for the Korean publishing house Agaworld.

Set in 1547, the novel tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance : Tom, a pauper who lives with his abusive family in London and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.

" The Prince and the Pauper " is a traditionally book done in watercolor with touch-ups of colored pencil and pastel.

The time schedule was short, about 70 days and the book size large 470mm(w) x 330mm(h).

I usually illustrate children's animal art and I really loved doing a book with people!

I started the book with an intense historical research and the roughs which were approved with only slight corrections.

And here you go with a few of my favorite pages of the book :

During the Children's Book Fair in Bologna, 19th-22nd March, you'll be able to see some illustrations taken from this book displayed in Agaworld's booth H30- A56.

My new Website on-line!

2012-01-11T11:08:00.001+01:00

Hello,

I'd like to inform you that my new Website is now on-line.

Finally!

I've totally redesigned and rebuilt it in my spare time ( last year I illustrated four new books …), with Rapidweaver ," a web design application that allows you to design & create a beautiful website on your Mac. "

I've found helpful RapidWeaver Classroom (video tutorials), " the most comprehensive RapidWeaver training ."

In addition I used the Plugin Carousel (it builds an animated bar thumbnails from your images ) and RWmultitool 2 (an external image-editor dedicated to RWthemes).

The Website consists of five basic pages :

HOME

Home (welcome to my up-to-date website. Special appreciation to all previous and actual clients )

ABOUT

About ( my Biography, art style and subject for illustrations)

ILLUSTRATION PORTFOLIOS

Illustration Portfolios (I decided to show only a selected number of my images, both new and old, which I believe embody the true essence of my style; I divided this selection into three subpages, which will be updated from time to time.)

Subpages:

New Books ( I collected some of the illustrations taken from recently or soon-to-be published books. The target may vary from 0-5 years to young adults.)

Picture Books ( I collected some of the published commissioned illustrations as well as some of my book projects. Target 0-5 years.)

Non Fiction (I collected some of the published commissioned work as well as personal promotion works for a target ranging from 5 years to young adults and older.)

IMAGEKIND STORE

Two Offsite pages that links directly to my Blog and my Imagekind Store.

SITEMAP

Contact and the Sitemap.

I hope you will enjoy your stay.

I welcome any feedback!

2011-12-06T14:58:00.004+01:00

I have been selected as the Featured Artist of the day at Imagekind!

My new Website

2011-11-22T14:46:00.006+01:00

Hi,

I'd like to inform you that I'm redesigning my portfolio website with Rapidweaver. You'll be able to visit it very soon.

In the meantime please visit That's my Folio and Behance to see my work.

Latest little book

2011-10-18T16:01:00.019+02:00

I have a new work to share with you.

This is my latest little book illustrated for Ellea Eurolingue, School of foreign languages based in Italy, my private client.

They asked me to illustrate a short story," Thank You! " written by Marina Aicardi, to celebrate their tenth Anniversary.

So here are some illustrations from the book, I hope you enjoy it!

from : ELLEA SHORT STORY - THANK YOU!

Prizes and Awards

2011-09-09T10:04:00.016+02:00

My work has been selected to be exhibited at the "Illustrator's Exhibition" at the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2000 and 2007.

BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR 2000

from : LITTLE LOST DUCKLING

Annual 2000

"Illustrator's Exhibition"

Children's Book Fair - Bologna 2000

Artwork selected :

Bologna 2000
Children's Book Fair
my Artwork displayed

Bologna 2000
"Illustrator's Exhibition" at the Children's Book Fair
my Artwork displayed

BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR 2007

Annual 2007

"Illustrator's Exhibition"
Children's Book Fair - Bologna 2007

Artwork selected :

from : Who's Hatching (Watch them Grow)

Bologna 2007
"Illustrator's Exhibition" at the Children's Book Fair
my Artwork displayed

Bologna 2007
"Illustrator's Exhibition" at the Children's Book Fair
PRIZEGIVING

Moreover in 2007, after the "Illustrator's Exhibition" in Bologna , my work was displayed in a number of Art Museums several of which the most important ones in Japan and Korea.The Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo chose my creative male penguin and egg design for their material which they greatly appreciate:

Welcome to my Blog - Let me introduce myself

2011-09-09T08:43:00.012+02:00

I am an illustrator and have been working in the field of children’s books for 22 years

During those years I have worked with stimulating publishing houses and lovely people whom I would like to thanks for their guidance with their talent and professional skills.

In particular, I would like to mention Bernand Girodroux, the much lamented Artistic Director of Nathan in Paris.

I would like to thank Linda Cole, for whom I started working in 1994 (at the time she was Design Director at Dorling Kindersley in London), and in recent years I was extremely pleased to work with other London-based publishing houses: Marshall and Pinwheel.

Mary Cartwright , Art Director at Usborne of London: during the 2000 edition of the Bologna book fair, she noticed my works at "Illustrator's Exhibition" and gave me the opportunity to illustrate 7 books of the Beginners series. I would also like to thank all the designers – Zoe Wray in particular – and authors – especially Anna Milbourne – who helped me in illustrating that series.

Finally, I would like to mention two fantastic clients - Agaworld (Korea) and Denise Ryan & associates (Australia) - with whom I have just illustrated 3 books. As soon as I receive my advance copies of the books, I will certainly show them in my blog.