Nicole Monahan
Illustrator.Artist.Educator

Each year I create a new illustration for the Lunar New Year. It is so fun to do the research into the meaning of the animal each year...

A great illustration starts with a creative idea. For me, it is like packing a good snowball. You start with a small crumb of an idea and...

I have done many jobs in my life from from the age of 7 with my newspaper route to working in a factory during graveyard shift welding...

It is easy to get caught up on erasing, redrawing, and erasing, over and over until the paper is muddy, messy and sometimes torn. You end...

The year of the bull starts tomorrow and I think the bull will be a welcome change in 2021. It will be a year of hard work through...

This winter, my advisor suggested I offer holiday Illustrations on custom greeting cards. True to form, I went into the idea full force...

People have been asking me for years to do a YouTube channel, but I just didn't want to and felt I didn't have time. There is the...

Well, I'm not sure if it is the best ever, but that is what my husband thinks and suggested I write, lol. I have been working hard on my...

I'm not sure about you, but I get sick of sitting in front of the various screens hunched over staring at the glow. Like me, are you...

Know a creative teen? The 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are open for submissions! Creative teens can submit work in 28 categories...

I found a tiny little visitor who was lost in the studio. A baby Shrew. Shrews are not rodents, but are actually related to hedgehogs!...

Before 2020, I never would have thought school could start without the need for a backpack, but here we are going to school on-line. No...

I love to sketch and watercolor while traveling across the world or just in my own backyard and have tried many different watercolor...

Between now and June 15th, create some art in your yard which can been seen from the road to participate in this grassroots national...

The past couple of months have been a bit of a blur, trying to find my footing and adapting to the new world of COVID-19 craziness. With...

I am contacted for many reasons in request of Illustrations. Most recently I was contacted to create an illustration to be used in...

I try to draw from real life whenever possible and so when I was hired to illustrate for a book with the main character as a real bunny,...

It is so fun each fall meeting all the new students, reconnecting with students who take a break over the summer and getting back into...

During the summer months we all look for fun activities to do with our family and to spend some time outside. One option is to bring...

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