woodlands | Alison Lee Chapman

Raccoons Have Five Digits, Like Us

One goal of What’s In These Woods is to call kids’ (and adults’) attention to species of forest life that may be unfamiliar, particularly in the realm of children’s books. I’ve included the IO Moth, Morel mushroom, mahogany fern. Of course, the book needs some furry friends (for my sake, too, because I love any […]Read Post ›

Two Rabbit Ears, Revisited

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I’m re-drawing a few pages of the children’s book I started last year. At first, I was kind of annoyed with myself for thinking that what I had drawn wasn’t fantastic enough. It’s not like the book I’m putting together is a fantasy, or even a fictional story; What’s […]Read Post ›

Experiments With Masking

After looking at countless children’s book illustrations, I started to doubt my drawings for What’s In These Woods? a little. I thought that maybe my compositions didn’t have enough contrast or interesting shapes, or maybe my drawings weren’t illustrative or stylized enough. I tried to boost the contrast and create geometry in my watercolors by […]Read Post ›

What’s In These Woods?

I’ve been slowly working on a children’s book about things that can be found in the forests of the Pennsylvania/ New Jersey area. It’s been a slow crawl, mostly because halfway through it I decided to start over with my illustrations, even after I spent over fifty hours on the preliminary pen sketches and first […]Read Post ›

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