Children Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Marianna Coppo Works Hard — Plays Harder https://tettybetty.com/marianna-coppo-works-hard-plays-harder/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:57:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=33508 Illustrator and author Marianna Coppo is known for her naive style of illustration, creating playful illustrated narratives composed of simple shapes and blobs of color. A celebrated children’s author and a master of the picture book, Coppo employs a mixture of techniques that includes tempera, pastels, and digital collage. “Creating a book is an incredibly […]

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Illustrator and author Marianna Coppo is known for her naive style of illustration, creating playful illustrated narratives composed of simple shapes and blobs of color. A celebrated children’s author and a master of the picture book, Coppo employs a mixture of techniques that includes tempera, pastels, and digital collage.

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#selfportrait

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“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

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🐧🐧🐅🐅🐘🐘

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This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face https://tettybetty.com/this-childrens-brand-aims-to-put-a-smile-on-your-face/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:27:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32766 Carla van der Meer’s brand, Poppekins, serves as a colorful celebration of childhood. Based on minimal illustrations and eye-popping designs, van der Meer’s merch includes stationary (prints, cards, and custom made birth announcements, party invites, and portraits) as well as enamel pins and trays—all adorned with her signature style of illustration and design. It all began […]

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Carla van der Meer’s brand, Poppekins, serves as a colorful celebration of childhood. Based on minimal illustrations and eye-popping designs, van der Meer’s merch includes stationary (prints, cards, and custom made birth announcements, party invites, and portraits) as well as enamel pins and trays—all adorned with her signature style of illustration and design.

It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.

Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.

And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”

Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!

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Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way https://tettybetty.com/lisa-stickleys-art-is-childish-but-in-a-good-way/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:27:57 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=29563 Lisa Stickley’s illustration are a sort of upgraded version of kids’ illustrations. Naive, if a bit wonky, her artwork has a playful twist to it. A sure recipe for smiles. “At the moment I love drawing animals and have a particular penchant for drawing soft toys (old and new), building up layer upon layer of […]

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Lisa Stickley’s illustration are a sort of upgraded version of kids’ illustrations. Naive, if a bit wonky, her artwork has a playful twist to it. A sure recipe for smiles. “At the moment I love drawing animals and have a particular penchant for drawing soft toys (old and new), building up layer upon layer of texture to give the right look and feel to the character,” she relayed in an interview with Dulwich Festival. “I love making them look a little bit wonky and odd, giving them their own unique personality.”

Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

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Mom Draws Comics Based on Her Life with 5-Year-Old Twins https://tettybetty.com/mom-draws-comics-based-on-her-life-with-5-year-old-twins/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:11:26 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=18242 Winda Lee is not an ordinary mom of twins. Along with taking care of her two 5-year-old boys, she’s also an artist, Youtuber, and designer. “Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about […]

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Winda Lee is not an ordinary mom of twins. Along with taking care of her two 5-year-old boys, she’s also an artist, Youtuber, and designer.

“Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about my life and my family.”

She draws simple moments she wants to cherish forever and to keep as memories for her kids when they get older.

Scroll down to see some of her comics that we loved the most. Follow her on Instagram for more.

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Tweets That Capture the Essence of Living with a 4-Year-Old https://tettybetty.com/tweets-that-capture-the-essence-of-living-with-a-4-year-old/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:12:42 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=16201 Social media may be the place to paint a perfect picture of your life, but sometimes you simply have to share the struggles as well. This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing […]

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Social media may be the place to paint a perfect picture of your life, but sometimes you simply have to share the struggles as well.

This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing that’s happened. Especially if it’s hilarious at the same time.

Below are some of the best situations parents of 4-year-olds have encountered and shared with the world on Twitter. They sum up the reality of a life with a toddler pretty well, in case you were wondering what it was like to have one.

Enjoy!

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Children Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Marianna Coppo Works Hard — Plays Harder https://tettybetty.com/marianna-coppo-works-hard-plays-harder/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:57:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=33508 Illustrator and author Marianna Coppo is known for her naive style of illustration, creating playful illustrated narratives composed of simple shapes and blobs of color. A celebrated children’s author and a master of the picture book, Coppo employs a mixture of techniques that includes tempera, pastels, and digital collage. “Creating a book is an incredibly […]

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Illustrator and author Marianna Coppo is known for her naive style of illustration, creating playful illustrated narratives composed of simple shapes and blobs of color. A celebrated children’s author and a master of the picture book, Coppo employs a mixture of techniques that includes tempera, pastels, and digital collage.

View this post on Instagram

#selfportrait

A post shared by Marianna Coppo (@mariannacoppo) on

“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

View this post on Instagram

🐧🐧🐅🐅🐘🐘

A post shared by Marianna Coppo (@mariannacoppo) on

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This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face https://tettybetty.com/this-childrens-brand-aims-to-put-a-smile-on-your-face/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:27:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32766 Carla van der Meer’s brand, Poppekins, serves as a colorful celebration of childhood. Based on minimal illustrations and eye-popping designs, van der Meer’s merch includes stationary (prints, cards, and custom made birth announcements, party invites, and portraits) as well as enamel pins and trays—all adorned with her signature style of illustration and design. It all began […]

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Carla van der Meer’s brand, Poppekins, serves as a colorful celebration of childhood. Based on minimal illustrations and eye-popping designs, van der Meer’s merch includes stationary (prints, cards, and custom made birth announcements, party invites, and portraits) as well as enamel pins and trays—all adorned with her signature style of illustration and design.

It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.

Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.

And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”

Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!

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Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way https://tettybetty.com/lisa-stickleys-art-is-childish-but-in-a-good-way/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:27:57 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=29563 Lisa Stickley’s illustration are a sort of upgraded version of kids’ illustrations. Naive, if a bit wonky, her artwork has a playful twist to it. A sure recipe for smiles. “At the moment I love drawing animals and have a particular penchant for drawing soft toys (old and new), building up layer upon layer of […]

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Lisa Stickley’s illustration are a sort of upgraded version of kids’ illustrations. Naive, if a bit wonky, her artwork has a playful twist to it. A sure recipe for smiles. “At the moment I love drawing animals and have a particular penchant for drawing soft toys (old and new), building up layer upon layer of texture to give the right look and feel to the character,” she relayed in an interview with Dulwich Festival. “I love making them look a little bit wonky and odd, giving them their own unique personality.”

Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

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Mom Draws Comics Based on Her Life with 5-Year-Old Twins https://tettybetty.com/mom-draws-comics-based-on-her-life-with-5-year-old-twins/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:11:26 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=18242 Winda Lee is not an ordinary mom of twins. Along with taking care of her two 5-year-old boys, she’s also an artist, Youtuber, and designer. “Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about […]

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Winda Lee is not an ordinary mom of twins. Along with taking care of her two 5-year-old boys, she’s also an artist, Youtuber, and designer.

“Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about my life and my family.”

She draws simple moments she wants to cherish forever and to keep as memories for her kids when they get older.

Scroll down to see some of her comics that we loved the most. Follow her on Instagram for more.

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Tweets That Capture the Essence of Living with a 4-Year-Old https://tettybetty.com/tweets-that-capture-the-essence-of-living-with-a-4-year-old/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:12:42 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=16201 Social media may be the place to paint a perfect picture of your life, but sometimes you simply have to share the struggles as well. This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing […]

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Social media may be the place to paint a perfect picture of your life, but sometimes you simply have to share the struggles as well.

This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing that’s happened. Especially if it’s hilarious at the same time.

Below are some of the best situations parents of 4-year-olds have encountered and shared with the world on Twitter. They sum up the reality of a life with a toddler pretty well, in case you were wondering what it was like to have one.

Enjoy!

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