Illustration

Bluegrey Illustrations — breathing life into dreams…

I make ink and watercolor art inspired by nature, books, and folklore.

My biggest love is illustrating books. In my personal work, I’m drawn to fantasy worlds with a spirit of whimsy, serenity, poetry. I enjoy working on commissions and miscellaneous pieces in digital art too.

Storytelling

Everything I make is rooted in my love of storytelling.

I often draw a wanderer on a journey, walking through dream worlds or lost in the pages of a book.

Finding my way back to art was also a kind of journey. When I was little, I wanted to grow up to be “someone who draws.” Though it’s been a winding path, I finally returned to my childhood dream around 2020. Always curious to explore new ways of expression, I value process over product in my everyday practice, and I like to stretch out to other media whenever I get the chance, especially making quirky curios in ceramics and painting on things I collect on my walks, like leaves and rocks.

My ongoing series include the vignettes of the wandering herbologist, Altair the Fox, and 100 Creatures from Folklore.

Would you like to collaborate with me? Please get in touch!

Shop

You can get prints of my work from my shop on INPRNT. Downloadable prints, free coloring pages, and free wallpapers are available on Ko-Fi. (Let me know if there’s a particular illustration you’d like to order.) As always, any support is deeply appreciated!

What’s new on Instagram

Lost is the hour spent walking in the strange woods, rapt in the mysteries it hides in its shadows and lights...

"Frederick, why don't you work?" they asked.

Sometimes it's surprising what comes along as a pick-me-up, and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was a book that sort of lifted me out of a bog one time. Since then, E. H. Shepard @officialehshepard (of Winnie-the-Pooh fame) has been one of my favorite illustrators. I've already drawn the other books (take a gander down my feed, if you like 🙂 ), so I looked for a less familiar one and stumbled across The Reluctant Dragon, also by Grahame.

"The main thing in life is to know your own mind."

"'The matter with human beans,' the BFG went on, 'is that they is absolutely refusing to believe anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.'"

"That very night, in Max's room, a forest grew..."

"When they answered the bell on that wild winter night,

"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

– Maya Angelou