Art by Cathleen McAllister

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film studies in colored pencil for a gallery show called FILM SCHOOL II: The Return. Some of these pieces are still available for sale on the Giant Robot website!

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If you've ever wanted to learn about drawing and painting plants, buy a copy of my book Everything I Know About Plants: An Artist's Guide The guide starts with simply breaking down the shapes of a leaf, and ends in designing and painting a full environment.

Buy it here at my website: cathleenconcepts.com/shop I'm also selling a selection of postcard prints and stickers!

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If you've ever wanted to learn about drawing and painting plants, buy a copy of my book Everything I Know About Plants: An Artist's Guide The guide starts with simply breaking down the shapes of a leaf, and ends in designing and painting a full environment.

Buy it here at my website: cathleenconcepts.com/shop I'm also selling a selection of postcard prints and stickers!

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a summery painting of a forest 🌿 you can learn my process for painting this scene in my upcoming book about drawing and painting plants, which I'll be selling at Lightbox!

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Mini Market 🍅 a continuation of my series of paintings inspired by the Borrowers series (which inspired The Secret World of Arrietty)

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LA summers 🌅 study from a photo I took in my neighborhood

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Forest Fairies ✨ a very comfort zone painting that was a lot of fun to paint!

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a study of a tree I saw when I last visited Washington

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morning haze ✨ a study of a photo I took on a hike

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the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

one of the coolest ancient wonders IMO! I wanted to do a design-heavy piece using a lot of linework. had a lot of fun with this one! stay tuned for a quick process video

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this cover for Rebecca Mix's book, The Mossheart's Promise, was a dream project for me. Terrariums, fairies, AND mushrooms? I keep isopods to clean my gecko's tank, so I love this little guy in the front (his name is Shrimp!) the book is available for pre-order so definitely pick up a copy if you can! Many thanks to my wonderful agent as well, Jennifer Azantian. Art direction by Molly Fehr Please support the union members at HarperCollins who have been on strike for over 50 days just to get a live-able wage. You can find out more and donate at their IG page @hcpunion

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I got to do the US edition cover for Struan Murray’s Orphans of the Tide series. This is the second book in the series, Shipwreck Island. full wrap by me, cover direction by Julia Feingold and Jessie Gang

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banana nut muffins 

I’ve been collecting family-favorite recipes and writing them in my phone. Would love to make an illustrated cookbook one day!

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outfit exploration for the gang in SCOOB; these were done in 2017 so they’re a little dated, but I enjoyed working on them!

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plein airs I did by taking a mental picture of colors, and then taking an actual picture, and then hiding out in my apartment to do them digitally (is that cheating?? oh well)

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can’t remember if I posted this here; it’s an oldie, done in like 2017 or something. I love a good aerial shot

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i was wondering what happened to the architecture design tutorial you made with pencil kings? I am a huge fan of your art but i cant seem to find it, would be so great if you could point me in the right direction :) thanks so much in advance!!

I believe they removed it, so I now have it available on my Gumroad.

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