Theadora Whittington

It’s #worldpenguinday I see! Populations of Adélie #penguins are falling: #ClimateCrisis Long regarded as symbols of community amongst far Southern Hemisphere peoples; you can’t help but love the way they huddle together as communities. #wwf #sketch #conservation.

#Drawing while attending an online #scbwi meeting about the need to collaborate. #sketchbook #draw #glasses #faces #sketch #illustration #illustrator

Love this!

Love this story & the music, & sure this’ll be great! Beautiful cover @mrjamesmayhew @OtterBarryBooks

A #chicken themed day. A picture which brings out a certain #vegetarian stance… #hongkong #editorialillustration #illustrator #eggs #editorial

Water Splashing Festival — a day late but anyway it’s a celebration of #Spring so it will continue! It’s #Songkran in Thailand, there’s similar in Xishuangbanna (Yunnan - hope to go back!), Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos. You expect to get wet! #watersplash #water #illustrator

#HappyEaster Hope you’ve had at least a little of the obligatory celebratory #chocolate by now? Choc in the fridge for dinner tonight (of course). #bunny #easterbunny #easter #easter

A wee #chick is getting ready for #Easter! #illustration #waiting #paper #kidlitart #illustrator #artist

Had enough #hotcrossbuns today - yet? A lovely old #GoodFriday tradition. The #cross represents the #crucifixion of #Jesus, & spices represent the spices used to embalm him. I like to eat them with added nuts and bananas. #christianity #lent #illustration

Love this: those greens = memories of back in UK! Such a different feeling of Spring from that out here in Hong Kong!

Palm Sunday #palmsunday #donkey #christianity #illustration #paperart #illustrator #artist #jesus

Happy St Patrick’s Day! And happy memories of my time in County Meath a few years ago. #ireland☘️ #stpaddysday #green #shamrock #illustrations

Some photos from a fun time with a bunch of 5-6 year olds up in Kowloon Tong: they heard & looked at my stories, I heard and looked at theirs! #hkschool #hkkids #picturebook #picturebookillustration #childrensbook

#MotheringSunday Being #thankful for the idea of what a perfect (divine?) #mothering should be all about. And to those mothers, like my own, who tried to be a good #mothers. I’m also a mother - so far with good relations with my #sons #illustration #children #illustrator

Always love doing school visits in front of enthusiastic children! #picturebook #authorillustrator #hkschools #hongkong #hkkids #kidlit #kidlitart

It’s the season for Cotton trees here! So here is part of a story based on a childhood memory, albeit not then involving a cotton tree. #tree #hongkong #picturebookillustration #illustrator #hkillustrator #story #kidlitart

Lovely to hear that the Beach School here used ‘The Sand Turtle’ to inspire the children for their beach school adventure yesterday! So here’s Ben as he starts to dig - and more! #picturebook #picturebookillustration #childrensbook

For #InternationalWomensDay, let us think of all the #women worldwide trying to make ends meet in some way somewhere. Too many are struggling worldwide right now. Here are some of the locals here in #hongkong, who are lucky enough at least to live in peace. #iwd #arthk #hkart

@AngelaTilby Enjoyed your Lenten reflection on Thought for the Day a bit ago, Angela! Great you’ve this book a-coming too.

Nearly here!

#Holi, the #Hindu #Spring festival of #light and #love: today marks the end of the celebrations. Memories of Holi when visiting #India too long ago. 2nd pic is of a bonfire lit the night before so as to banish the darkness and let in the light. #illustrator #nonfiction