Sponsor giveaway: Benconservato
Posted by Amy on Tuesday March 9, 2010
Everyone should have a monster to call their own. Mine would be one that’s a little rough around the edges, scruffy looking with a gruff voice, but a big heart (and one with a smile goes a long way too.)
If there ever was a lady who could translate my perfect monster onto paper, that would be Emma Kidd of Benconservato. She’s based in Australia, and is an artist, illustrator, printmaker, and photographer who’s always busy dreaming up and drawing monsters!
She’s giving away a set of Monsters Behaving Badly Colouring Book and a 6-pack of Colour Me Happy Gocco Party Invites to ONE lucky reader if you’ll share with us your favorite monsters (real or imaginary!)
Giveaway ends on 16th March 2010 and the winner will be announced via email!
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is stephanie morgan rogers.
#2 :: jess smart smiley
Mar 10, 12:24 AMThe Aswang is my favorite monster. Mostly because it sounds so ridiculous I can’t take it seriously as a monster.
Like, if it applied for a job as a monster and I was the employer, I’d have to try not to laugh.
This coloring book, however, is no laughing matter. I have to marry my crayons with it’s spooky pages :)
#4 :: Ingrid
Mar 10, 12:52 AMA coloring book! Oh, I love those. I miss coloring (and trying hard to stay within the lines).
#5 :: Sarah Bagshaw
Mar 10, 01:04 AMHi, lovely work!
Its difficult for me to choose as I’m surrounded by monsters drawn by my son…
http://rudisdrawings.blogspot.com
Its even started rubbing off on me….all my doodles are sprouting legs!
Cheers
Sarah
#6 :: Amaranta G.
Mar 10, 01:07 AM(I hope this counts as a monster) I always loved The Blob from that eighties movie, remember??
#7 :: carolina espinosa
Mar 10, 01:07 AMMy favorite monster for the moment is the one I just finished for this week illustration friday. He is the scared scary monster that is even afraid of its shadow
you can check it out here http://karo-design.blogspot.com/2010/03/illustration-friday-brave.html
#8 :: Michaela Lynch
Mar 10, 01:40 AMThat’s probably the greatest coloring book ever! My favorite monster is probably Eduardo from “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.” He’s so adorable!
#10 :: Anna Searle
Mar 10, 02:13 AMMy favourite monster would be strong, powerful and damn right hot…..like the beast out of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Some people would call him a a monster. Or even King Kong…..cause those characters have a deep and loving side. The beast has this really sexy voice so that would have to be a major characteristic in my ideal monster.
p.s. That colouring book is amazing and I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!
#12 :: Rachael Bowyer
Mar 10, 03:56 AMMy favorite monster is the one who startles me out of a sound sleep by crawling into bed with me late and night, wiggling its cold, little feet against me and saying, “Mommy, I had a bad dream. Can I sleep with you?”
#16 :: lyzzie lou
Mar 10, 12:01 PMmy favorite monster has always been, and will always be “cookie monster” from “sesame street”…to me he will always be awesome!
#24 :: Iv Gomes
Mar 10, 10:43 PMfirst of all, Happy (late) Birthday to Pikaland!!
now, of course i love monsters! specially, if you can collect them or color them with pretty crayons and markers, like these one from Emma Kidd.
i’d go back to my childhood years spent in front of the TV watching cartoons and kids series: my favorite monsters are Count Duckula, and Count von Count (often known simply as The Count) from the Sesame Street! i can’t choose between one of them, sorry!
so, these lovely spooky creatures are from the 80s, i wonder if anyone else commenting here remembers them?… oh boy, now i feel old eeeekk! i might be old, but i still love spending time with crayons and coloring books, how’s that? :-D
#25 :: stephanie morgan rogers
Mar 11, 12:54 AMahhh, so good to be back in Pikaland!!
i just looove emma kidd!
my favorite monster? definitely the sasquatch, i grew up in the northwest u.s. so he was a real threat when we went camping! i’d scour the woods for evidence, like hair stuck on branches ( i was told it was moss )
i love that he has become a sort of illustration icon these days. he is scarey, wise, magical and real all rolled up into one big weird monster!
#27 :: Natalia Bondarenko
Mar 11, 05:47 PMI had some help from my younger son with this, because I was quite happy with the choice of bunyip, but he insisted that the icycalus was a much cooler monster!
(And he thinks he will be using that colouring in book, should we win…I will be colouring in! ;D )
#31 :: Sarah Cunningham
Mar 16, 03:20 AMOh, I LOVE me a good bad-behaving-monster, and I’d definitely have to pick the Little Monsters, from the movie; particularly Howie Mandel’s character of course!
#32 :: Virginia
Mar 17, 06:24 AMmy favorite little monsters lie up the street and don’t value following the coloring instructions.
#1 :: sarah anderson
Mar 10, 12:09 AMi love your blog and your Etsy shop too! Where the heck do you find the time!!!!!! :)