Alice Ratterree | Children's Book Illustrator

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  • Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    Thank you all for your patience while I slowly navigate the forest migrating from another host account and format. Progress is being made daily. Please keep visiting!

  • Intention


    With the enormous task of fleshing out my portfolio looming before me, I am aiming to tackle more black and white/spot art. Illustration Friday is my inspiration of choice for the next few months. This past week’s word was “Intention.”

    Here’s the early thumbnail depiction. (The Wolf encountering Little Red Riding Hood)

  • Alice


    Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of     having nothing to do. Once or twice she peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations.
    So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

    -Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    Entry for the 2012 SCBWI Carolinas art contest

  • Sink

    Illustration Friday.
    Sink….
    or, not to sink, that is.
    Today I’m working at staying afloat upon the fragile foundation that either saves or betrays.

  • Cats, part deux

    Final image for Upstate Book Project.

  • Hello world!

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  • Mama Earth

    There are times the wind blows too hard,

    Tossing trees and roofs.

    And there are times when the rain is too hard,

    Flooding rivers and towns.

    Until Mama Earth quiets the wind.

    Until Mama Earth stops the rain

    And dries the land.
    Illustration Intensive at the SCBWI Carolinas conference. We recieved the text on Tuesday, arrived on Friday with our preliminary sketch, then David Diaz took us through his process of execution. Layer of acrylic color on masonite board, then our sketch transferred with soft pencil and charcoal. We utilized the charcoal by smudging the entire drawing, adding depth and texture. Finished up with the detail work in more acrylics.

  • Buckle

    1-2 buckle my shoe
    3-4 shut the door
    5-6 pick up sticks
    7-8 lay them straight
    9-10 a big fat hen
    11-12 dig and delve
    13-14 maids a courting
    15-16 maids in the kitchen
    17-18 maids in waiting
    19-20 my plate’s empty

  • Launch

    ready .
    set . .
    go . . .

    illustration friday has launched me into my portfolio once more. this is where i live. the outer edge of the final countdown. before launch, there is a breathless, eternal second when anything is possible.

  • Hills

    “From the pleasant town of Maienfeld a footpath leads up through shady green pastures to the foot of the high peaks that gaze down solemnly and majestically on the valley below. Anyone who sets out in the path will soon catch the keen fragrance of low mountain herbs and grasses, for the footpath rises straight and steep to the Alps.”
    -Johanna Spyri, from Heidi