Craig Smith is a prolific, award-winning illustrator. His witty, humorous artwork is enormously popular with children. With a wonderful sense of the absurd and a terrific eye for detail, Craig first came to popular attention with Whistle Up the Chimney, Commended in the Children’s Book Council 1982 Picture Book of the Year Awards, and he is still enthralling children with his illustrations.
Since 1983 he has illustrated many award-winning books for Scholastic and Omnibus Books including: Sister Madge’s Book of Nuns; Where’s Mum?; and Goodness Gracious!, as well as Dreadful David; How to Save the World Before Breakfast; The Brown Felt Hat; Anna’s Ghost; Putrid Poems; Petrifying Poems; Vile Verse, Yay!; and Musical Harriet.
A former lecturer in illustration, nurses’ aide and rust scraper on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Craig remembers copying comic books as a child. He prefers using a nib for line drawings and applies colour using inks, Plaka paint and pencil.
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