About me

Kateryna Manko specialize mostly in children’s book illustrations and nursery wall art. She creates her artworks using watercolors, colored pencils and white ink, which helps her to create a colorful vibrant whimsical picture communicating to the reader the special feelings, emotions, messages that resonate with the child’s inner world. Kateryna’s artworks are richly imaginative and creative, which ignites in young minds the desire to create, dream and explore the world. Kateryna creates illustrations for children’s books of such categories by age: • Newborn to age 4: Picture books in the form of board and soft books • Ages 2–5: Early picture books • Ages 5–8: Picture books, coloring, activity and novelty books • Ages 4–8: Early (easy) readers

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Projects

• Fancy Birthday Balloons"Fancy Birthday Balloons" Watercolor illustration for greeting cards
• Sloth with Multicolored Fur is PaintingWatercolor children's book illustration
• Baby Elephant in the Hot Air BalloonWatercolor illustration for the Nursery Wall Art print design
• B- BehooveMixed media illustration for “The prodigious alphabet book for intelligent small children”
• Ocean danceWatercolor fantasy illustration
• Little Happy MonsterMixed media (watercolors & colored pencils) illustration for the children's book

Work history

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Book IllustratorDurham University
Nov 2023London, United Kingdom
Creating internal and cover illustrations for the children’s book “Mom's Little Moments” and poster illustration for Durham University
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Book Illustrator/Designer/Watercolor artistPublishing house "Eugen Ulmer"
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023London, United KingdomFreelance
43 watercolor illustrations for the book “How to vegan” by Nina Schnider Publishing house "Eugen Ulmer"

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Skills

• Design
• Lettering
• Social Media
• Illustration
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign

Education

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Master degree in DesignKyiv Institute of Arts (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University)
Aug 2009 - May 2015Kyiv, Ukraine