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Secret Sketchbook

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Sharing the mess and magic as well as the bumps and bruises of working as a children’s book illustrator.

About Nanette Regan

✏️Picture book illustrator ⚡️Started this career late but I’m catching up ✨Represented by Bright Agency 📙Sharing sketchbooks and work in progress 🤓Sometimes sharing history of the pencil 👋Always happy to say hello

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