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Arctic Animal Illustrations Arctic Animal Illustrations by Irish children's illustrator Carla Daly I have been an a creative bender recently. Animals, animals and more animals. I have two possible outlets for my new art to license, both based in the United States Of America. As well as creating new map images, I am also creating a range of animal drawings.  The brief on these is very simple images and to use pastel colours. This takes a lot out of me as my images are usually very detailed with strong colours. When I started on the animal series I found it quite hard work but as I got into creating them, I really, really enjoyed it. These arctic animal illustrations had to be the most difficult, I really had to pare back on the use of colour.  I am hoping to add these to my personalised baby gifts category at Gifts4Baby.ie.   I want to create 3 more in the series, completing 6 arctic animals. I hope I can find 6 white arctic animals t...

Illustrated Map Of Florida Illustrated Map Of Florida by Irish artist Carla Daly I am happily working my way through my next illustrated map of Florida. A really beautiful state known as The Sunshine State .  I am illustrating it with a light sea blue and yellow to represent the land. I have added fish that are found in the sea around the state and the counties and county seats with famous buildings, people and other Florida attractions. Illustrating a map takes me some time, I have to spend time investigating the counties that make up the state. Each county is illustrated with an object, person, building, animal or bird. I place the county names and county seat onto the map first. Then I go through each county and add and illustration that will depict the county. I license my kids wall map art to an online shop Maps.com, they are based in the United States. You can also purchase my kids wall maps on my online shop Gifts4Baby.ie At Gifts4Baby.ie  we se...

I am starting to wind down my work this week. Sales are still coming in but by the end of this week they should be all finished. I have had a great year, still learning about seo and online marketing, I think I will never stop learning in that area! My Google Adwords campaign was a success so I hope to continue it into the New Year. I want to thank all my customers for shopping on my children's wall art sites CarlaDaly.com and CarlaDaly.co.uk . It means so much to me to receive all the postitive feedback and that my customers spend their time spreading the word about my children's wall art. Also knowing that so many children are enjoying my art, now that makes for a good Christmas! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!