Is it me or is it Jennifer?
Posted on: July 30, 2010
A while ago I did a series of simple cartoons about a character called Jennifer. I’ve just put a piece of one up as my profile pic on my Facebook ‘Like’ page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/judy-horacek/129925351232?ref=s (trying to prove to myself I can do this whole new social media thing!)
Click on this piece of the cartoon to see the whole thing and … more »
The next big thing
Posted on: July 26, 2010
And you thought Masterchef was huge… (if you’re only seeing a partial picture, click on it to see the full cartoon)
A Growl is Born
Posted on: June 14, 2010
My name is Jordyn Boland and I am in Year 6 at St Brigid’s Primary School. We were asked to do an art project on an illustrator and I chose Judy Horacek. I also decided to make a soft toy of Growl at home. I have done a sketch book which includes my interpretation of Growl, along with the materials … more »
The Growl Quilt
Posted on: March 29, 2010
Following on from her wonderful Where is the Green Sheep? quilt, Merle Mitchell made this amazing quilt based on The Story of Growl for my niece Alice.
It’s a beautiful quilt, with lots of episode from the book represented. It probably took as long to make as the book did to draw! It was much more complicated to make … more »
Baby Noor and the Red Sheep
Posted on: March 29, 2010
Another beautiful cake inspired by ‘Where is the Green Sheep?’. This one comes all the way from London, and it’s the first one starring one of the other sheep in the book.
Dear Judy,
When trying to decide what sort of cake to make for my daughter’s first birthday, I thought that a sheep cake would be perfect. “Where is the … more »
Birds from Yellow
Posted on: February 1, 2010
I can’t as yet reveal the full beauty of my new book Yellow is My Favourite Colour, but here are three birds for you to be going on with. They are from the green page, the purple page and one of the yellow pages. I’m sure you’ll be able to work out which is which. Is posting birds some form of … more »
User Error
Posted on: October 3, 2009
The new pictures this month are of my pictures on the wall at my exhibition at Helen Maxwell Gallery, the image from the invitation for the exhibition, the face of the new soft toy Green Sheep made by Penguin now available in a gift pack with the Green Sheep book (ideal Christmas gift!), and a picture of a beautiful waratah … more »
Elizabeth and Growl
Posted on: August 30, 2009
Have a look at this wonderful clip of 19 month old Elizabeth, ‘reading’ The Story of Growl to her dolly. I’ve had it for ages, but I’ve only just worked out how to get it onto the website. (The way to get it onto the website is to ask Ben and he’ll sort it out. Thank you a … more »
Green Sheep Cake for Lucas
Posted on: July 31, 2009
Dear Judy,
This is a picture of our son’s 1st birthday cake. Lucas simply loves Where is the Green Sheep? Thank you and thanks Mem for such a beautiful book.
Yours sincerely
Ruth and Philip Glendinning
Just when you thought Green Sheep Birthday cakes couldn’t get any more magnificent, here is the wonderful cake made for Lucas by his parents – idea and two … more »
Feminist Book Fortnight Logo
Posted on: July 31, 2009
I think this is the biggest my work has ever been – a banner across the front of the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne for the 6th International Feminist Book Fortnight in 1994, purple of course. I did the IFBF logo – a flying woman on a book in various guises, nicknamed ‘Bookie’ by the organisers. People came from all over the … more »
Brag Book
Posted on: June 29, 2009
Welcome to the Brag Book. It isn’t quite working exactly as I’d like yet, but you’ll get the general idea. It’s stuff about my work, and about people having things to do with my work. Thanks to everyone who has allowed me to use their photos. There are more to come. If you have a photo you’d like to … more »
Campbell’s birthday cake
Posted on: June 28, 2009
There seems to be a bit of a cake theme happening around the green sheep. Mem Fox has sent me photos of a number of Green sheep cakes people have made for her on her birthday when she happens to be somewhere far from home giving a lecture or on a book tour.
Mem and I were sent this fantastic series … more »
Ella at the zoo
Posted on: June 28, 2009
Ella’s grandmother sent me this gorgeous photo. ”My daughter gave her niece (and my grand daughter) Ella, a copy of These are my Hands at a zoo twilight concert a fortnight ago.
This photo doesn’t show it but Ella is surrounded by adult aunts, uncles, cousins and grand parents. For the whole evening the focus of her attention was the book … more »
The Story of Growl
Posted on: June 27, 2009
The Story of Growl was launched at the old Books Illustrated with aplomb by the wonderful Julie McCrossin, who got everyone growling. Not just the kids, that’s too easy, but the adults as well. Because afternoon tea features so strongly in the book, I made hundreds of cupcakes for us to eat, iced in different colours. The little monster … more »
Green sheep quilt 2
Posted on: June 26, 2009
The second Green Sheep quilt – made by Berit Verburg–Kjaerstad, Netherlands.
”When I visited my grandchildren in Australia some time ago, we enjoyed your and Mem’s book “Where is the Green Sheep?” together. As I love sheep, I was very happy to find the book in a bookshop so that I could bring it home. I wanted to make a … more »
Green Sheep Quilt 1
Posted on: June 25, 2009
This quilt was made in Australia by Merle Mitchell who gave it to my nephew Oscar. Oscar and the Green sheep were born in the same year.
Not long after I saw this quilt, I received a picture of another Green sheep quilt made by someone on the other side of the world. They are both extraordinary, done with … more »
Eva and the green sheep
Posted on: June 25, 2009
Where is the Green Sheep? became a classic almost as soon as it was published. There’s a lovely photo to follow this, sent to me by proud grandmother Louise, but I just have to type enough words so that the more link appears, and you can click on it to see that there’s a photo. I’m sure this can be … more »
poetry on public transport and horacek
Posted on: June 25, 2009
Here are photos of two trams I decorated for a Poetry on Trams project, for the Fringe Festival many years ago. We’re talking trams, so we’re talking Melbourne obviously. The idea was based on a poems on public transport project that has been going in London since 1995, although our version was very low budget and low tech. There were … more »