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Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

“The Party”. Bright Plasticine pictures capture all the fun – the games, the food, the friends. Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid
Born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, Canadian award-winning illustrator Barbara Reid was fond of drawing even in her childhood. And she always enjoyed creating from modelling clay, or plasticine. Having graduated from The Ontario College of Art and Design, she was happy to illustrate her first picture book in plasticine. In particular, her plasticine illustrations for the book “The New Baby Calf”, written by Edith Newlin Chase has become a real success. In addition, more than twenty books later, and other awards. Among them – the UNICEF Ezra Jack Keats Award, The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book award, and the Elizabeth Cleaver Award. Her books, translated into ten languages, have been published in Canada, The USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Finland, Norway, China, Germany, Brazil, Korea and Thailand.

Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

Fox walked alone. Plasticine illustrations by Toronto based artist Barbara Reid

Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

The book titled "Fox walked alone". Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

The book titled “Fox walked alone”

Sing a Song of Mother Goose

Sing a Song of Mother Goose

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Beautiful black crow plasticine illustration

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Read me a book

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Two by two

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Mr. Spider

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Sing a Song of Mother Goose

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Logo for Literacy Place. Client: Scholastic Educational

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Welcome, baby

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Plasticine illustration

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

The subway mouse

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

An elephant

Plasticine illustrations by Barbara Reid

Peg and the Yeti

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Children’s book “Peg and the Yeti”

Effie. Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Effie

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Two by two

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Detail of Plasticine illustration for the book “Peg and the Yeti”

Sing a Song of Mother Goose

From “Sing a Song of Mother Goose”

The Golden Goose

Published by Scholastic Canada “The Golden Goose” Plasticine illustration

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Fox walked alone

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Beautiful Plasticine illustration

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Awesome art by Canadian artist Reid

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Old woman with plants

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Singing in the night mice

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

In the jungle

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

The book “Two by two”

Plasticine illustrations by Canadian artist Barbara Reid

Wonderful art by Barbara Reid

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