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Name:<\/strong> Rachael Smith (a.k.a Penelope and Pip) How about a brief introduction?<\/strong> What\u2019s your goal before the year 2010 ends?<\/strong> What\u2019s your biggest fear?<\/strong> What\u2019s your favorite tool?<\/strong> Share something random with us!<\/strong> Rachael Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26919,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/26919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLocation:<\/strong> Brisbane, Australia
\nWebsite:<\/strong> www.penelopeandpip.com<\/p>\n
\nI am a freelance illustrator who draws pictures of whimsy and adventure from the imaginations of two little characters called Penelope and Pip. My pictures are a little bit quirky and each illustration has its own story. Kind of like a one page picture book! When I am not drawing I play on my piano and dream of places I can holiday and new stuffed toys I can make for my friend Mister Mo (he\u2019s a cat I made and he is always dreaming of new friends).<\/p>\n
\nI would like to create more balance between my work life as a teacher and my home life as an illustrator. Sometimes I get home from school and I have expended so much energy during the day I find it a little hard to be creative at night. To lessen my hours as my day job would be amazing but to do that I need to spend more time drawing – I never was good a maths but I think that equation needs more work!<\/p>\n
\nThat I will run out of time to do everything I want to do and be all of the things I dream of being. My mother was recently diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer and it has really made me realise that life is very, very short. I don\u2019t worry any more about how my art is perceived. I draw and write my stories because I love to be creative and that has become a goal I enjoy pursuing, more so than any financial gain I may have. This means I sometimes draw pictures I know will have a small market, but that is okay too.<\/p>\n
\nWithout a doubt my graphics tablet! I am constantly amazed at how it works (I\u2019m one of those people that don\u2019t understand fax machines too…).<\/p>\n
\nI put rosy cheeks on everything I draw. I just can\u2019t help make my characters look sun-kissed and happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n