Artwork by Violet Lemay

As part of AGM’s Work for Free campaign, Violet Lemay created this book cover for Charlotte Schwartz, a law clerk and volunteer mediator for a court diversion program at Toronto’s City Hall. Charlotte and her husband Seth wrote Soy Boy to raise awareness about a genetic metabolic condition called “Galactosemia”, which affects roughly 1 in 60,000 people in North America—including their adorable little boy, Isaiah. About 75% of children with galactosemia do not make it past their first two weeks if the condition has gone undiagnosed. Thankfully ten-month-old Isaiah, a.k.a. “Soy Boy,” is healthy and happy, keeping Charlotte and Seth on their toes. Violet plans to continue working with Charlotte; over time “The Edible Adventures of Soy Boy” will be fully illustrated.

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News published at 10:45 am, Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay spent the summer illustrating several projects for Duopress, including “New York Baby: A Local Baby Book.” The cardboard book for small children features iconic sites of New York City, as seen through the eyes of adventurous babies. The final few pages include fun activities and tips for parents. “New York Baby,” written by Puck, is the fourth of five books created by Puck and Violet thus far, with many other joint projects planned to come. “New York Baby” is now available at Barnes and Noble.

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News published at 8:39 am, Monday, February 27th, 2012

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay’s third collaboration with duopress, “Doodle New York,” is now available for pre-order at amazon.com. A must-have for lovers of the Big Apple of all ages, the activity book offers 120 pages of fun doodling activities stemming from iconic New York imagery: everything from the Statue of LIberty to the Anthora (those classic blue-and-white coffee cups you get at Greek diners). Violet’s ten-year-old son Gray Fruisen contributed as well! He made five drawings of his favorite NYC buildings. The book contains several QR codes with links to additional drawings, coloring pages and activities at duopress.com, including young Gray’s five renderings. “Doodle New York,” which will be widely available this spring, is the first in a series of similar city doodle books which dupress will continue to release in the fall of 2012 and beyond. As a result, Violet is quite busy researching and assembling ink drawings of various cities throughout the world.

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News published at 10:32 am, Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay was hard at work all summer completing three children’s book projects, one for Highlights and two for duopress. The final art is on its way to the printer but will not be available for viewing until various dates in 2012. Meanwhile, Violet took this photo to prove that she hasn’t been sitting still: it took over a thousand sheets of paper to make the 144 illustrations required by these three books.

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News published at 10:35 am, Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay created this image on a very quick turn-around for Jason Chiu at the Globe and Mail. The illustration, published March 18, 2011, accompanied a Facts and Arguments essay written by a woman whose father recovered from a brain aneurysm. She likened him to a cat with nine lives; no matter how many times he falls, he always seems to land on his feet.

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News published at 4:18 am, Monday, March 21st, 2011

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay made this image to accompany a charming article in The Baltimore Sun, about new trends in the realm of marriage proposals. With art direction expertly provided by Jay Judge, the art was published on January 30, as part of the magazine included in the newspaper every other month.

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News published at 3:50 am, Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay illustrated the cover for January’s edition of The Presbyterian Record magazine. Caroline Bishop was the Art Director.

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News published at 1:14 am, Friday, January 14th, 2011

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay recently illustrated the cover for Food Service and Hospitality Magazine, expertly directed by David Heath.

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News published at 6:16 am, Friday, January 7th, 2011

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet Lemay spent a lovely Saturday signing copies of My Foodie ABC: A Little Gourmet’s Guide at Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia, USA on November 14th, as part of the Savannah Children’s Book Festival. Over 20,000 visitors passed by, from early in the morning until quite late in the afternoon. Violet signed tons of books and was hoarse from all of the talking. Everyone who stopped by loved My Foodie ABC, a charming alphabet book for small children, written by Puck, published by DuoPress. They also enjoyed actual fruits and veggies from the book which Violet brought as table decor: Meyer lemons, jicama, radicchio, chanterelle mushrooms, xuxu, and one particularly enticing habanero pepper (which had to be hidden almost immediately, to prevent any little ones from trying a bite).

See all of DuoPress’ adorable titles for small children at their website, http://www.duopressbooks.com/.

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News published at 1:55 am, Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Artwork by Violet Lemay

Violet is usually sitting in front of her computer clicking away, either creating digital art, or writing, which she enjoys doing between projects. She does take breaks occasionally, though, sometimes even cracking open a tube or two of paint. As witness: these acrylic portraits of a friend’s children (Sonya, and the twins). Hopefully, more portraits and/or similar paintings will be forthcoming! Says the artist, “Sometimes, a girl’s just gotta have fun!”

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News published at 4:05 am, Wednesday, November 10th, 2010