Alison Mutton

Thank you! 💜

Thank you! I love peach and green, it’s such a yummy combo! 💜

A mid-century style children’s book vignette illustration of a green caterpillar hanging upside down off a branch of pink leaves, waving at a ladybug.

Welcome back for 2026, #colour_collective! I felt like going a bit retro for #CCPeachBud 💜

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A vignette children’s book illustration of a small Asian girl who has just run towards her grandfather and leapt up to give him a big hug.

Hello #kidlitartpostcard! I’m Alison, a #kidlitart illustrator from (currently very sunny) Perth, Western Australia. I love all forms of illustrating for children: picture books, chapter books, book covers, fiction, non-fiction, I love it all! 💜

#kidlitartpostcardday #childrensillustrator

A limited palette children’s picture book traditional sketch style illustration of a small 19th century girl in a white dress and blue cloak standing on the edge of a footpath with a poodle on a red lead sitting beside her. The background of the image is pale grey.

Bringing back an old favourite for #colour_collective #CCSilverBirch so that I can continue being very lazy while I’m on my holiday break. (I’m actually being pretty busy but let’s avoid drawing to deadline, at least, right? 😉). Are you having a break too? 💜

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💜💜 Merry Christmas!

Thank you! 💜

May your day be lovely! It’s just one minute to Christmas Day here!

And to all my #kidlitart and #kidlit friends, let’s bring joy and success into 2026!

An illustration of a simple green Christmas tree with a large gold star against a deep night sky. The tree is covered baubles, flowers, foliage and spangles in red, green and whiten

Wishing everyone a peaceful and joyful festive season, whatever and however you choose to celebrate. 💜

This is our family Christmas card. 2025 has been A Year, so I kept our card very simple, rather than spending time I didn’t have creating something really spectacular.

#christmascard

Thank you! 💜 If you’re in Australia you like to draw the COLD at Christmas 😅 (we’re going for 41C on Christmas day here 🫠)

Thank you! Carollers really need to be in a group!

A children’s book illustration of four mice, all dressed in winter coats and scarves of varying colours. Three mice hold blue songbooks and are singing carols, while one holds a crook with a lantern hanging from it. The sky is dark and snow is falling.

A compilation of the carolling mice I’ve drawn over the past few Christmasses. I thought I had enough for a nice little group by now, but I’m sure I’ll keep adding more! 💜

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Thank you, Alina! I need to put all my carolling mice together in one image now that the lantern carrier exists!

Reposting with #CcPhthaloGreen because no one else was using the underscore 😬

Thanks so much, Traci! 💜💜

A children’s book illustration of a small light brown mouse in a green coat and hat and huge red scarf, holding a pole with a lantern, in the snow.

Should I have spent all evening adding a mouse to my collection of mouse carol singers for #colour_collective #CC_PhthaloGreen? No. But I had fun anyway. 💜

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A digital vignette kidlit children’s book illustration of a blue Christmas bauble upon which is drawn a small girl with short brown hair and a red tshirt, holding a parent’s hand and gazing in wonder at yellow fairy lights overhead

A redo of an old #colour_collective for #CCOldGold - a core memory of seeing the 🎄lights in S’pore when I was about 4. 90s Perth didn’t have that kind of spectacle; though I don’t remember very clearly it started a lifelong love of twinkly lights. Do you go in for lights at Christmas? 💜

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Aren’t baubles fun to draw? Love it! 💜

So cute! 🥰

A graphic illustration of three decorative vintage baubles in red, gold and blue against a Christmas tree background. At the bottom, of the illustration a curious cat’s paw reaches towards the lowest baubles.

This is was not my plan for #CCZaffre but this afternoon I opened my Christmas card list & discovered the app had stopped working with no way to extract said database (I tried *everything*). It was a DAY. 😭 So I decompressed with the symmetry tool & vintage baubles.

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I dream of having the time, energy and hand strength to do flooded gingerbread biscuits. Snowflakes is my limit, cute birdies WAY beyond it!

A limited palette (black, white and tan) kidlitart sketch illustration vignette of an elderly 19th century woman with her eyes closed, holding a white cat that is asleep on her shoulder.

Let’s all have a moment of serenity before December starts. An afternoon nap, maybe. 💜
#CCBurlywood for #colour_collective, inspired by a 19th century photo I found on Pinterest.

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Absolutely! But I’m still in denial 🤣

Cute! I’ve been working on custom Christmas cards but haven’t brought myself to believe that Christmas is close enough for regular Christmas art yet 😱

Go go go! I have to be ready ahead of time because the technical posting time is 4.30am for me 🫠

A children’s book illustration sketch vignette of a small girl with black hair and red bow and shirt peeking out from behind a selection of green tropical leaves.

A quick little sketch for #colour_collective #CCPeacock - it’s been pretty humid here today so tropical leaves seemed the perfect subject. 💜

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So cute! I think I would be the monkey you can’t see, frantically trying to keep that pile of bananas from falling over. At least that’s what November has been feeling like so far. 😅

A children’s book vignette illustration of a small girl in pastel-coloured bathers and rashie, sitting cross-legged on the beach and cuddling a small scruffy dog.

There’s a bit of #CCOyster for #colour_collective in this piece from ‘Little Dune’ (written by Lisa van der Wielen). Hopefully I can be back creating new pieces for CC in December - right now my nose is firmly to the grindstone! How are you going with the November to-do list? 💜

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