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LUCIANA NAVARRO POWELL
ILLUSTRATOR HIGHLIGHT
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From Listen, Wonder, Ask
(by Elly Berke/Tilbury)
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Luciana Navarro Powell has created art since childhood—and today as a multimedia artist, Luciana is honored to make a living by doing what she loved as a child—drawing. Her detailed, textured, and vivid illustrations are packed with swooshes of motion that emphasize action and movement. Equally packed with joy and expression, Luciana’s sparklingly saturated illustrations bring her readers into a vibrant world of color and texture.
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From Listen, Wonder, Ask
(by Elly Berke/Tilbury)
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LISTEN, WONDER, ASK shows Luciana‘s masterful use of analog techniques to bring depth to a crucial part of the story—the depiction of different languages. Besides soft hues of pan pastel in stencils to show the characters and landscape, she used paper cuts, costume jewels, broken glass, scanned mints, and paper quilling as embellishment.
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From Listen, Wonder, Ask
(by Elly Berke/Tilbury)
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“[A] sorely needed [book] in this time of division and discord. … Powell’s soft and welcoming, watercolor like illustrations capture present and past at once as each immigrant’s history is revealed.” —Kirkus
Community, belonging and the richness of cultural experiences are paramount to Luciana, herself an immigrant with a coming-here-story.
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Luciana’s art is eye candy for any child—rich in tone and bold in brightness—with illustrations that vary from colorful and fun to mysterious and moody. All and all, her versatility in mediums and style has resulted in more than a dozen books, and she illustrates a broad range of subject matters from quirky animal characters to evocative landscapes and non-fiction.
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From One Small Koala on the Big Blue Earth
(by Tory Christie/Amicus Ink)
Illustrations for the book were just accepted into the Fall 2024 Juried Show at the Jansen Art Center, in Lynden, WA, starting on October 10th.
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Luciana’s work is filled with rich textures and a tactile feel that she achieves by combining acrylics, gouache, pan pastel, and scanned ephemera, then finishing it all on Photoshop. Leaning on her broad range of illustration skills, Luciana can easily move from macro to micro, from landscape to character emotions, from whimsical fiction to nature non-fiction, always keeping sight of the one common thread—her passion to find just the perfect visual voice that a well-told story needs to move and enchant readers.
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From A Tiny Brown Monkey on the Big Blue Earth
(by Tory Christie/Amicus Ink)
 “From the first moment, readers are plunged into
a vibrant world of color and texture in this beautiful book.
Illustrations rich in detail dominate every page of this story.”
—School Library Journal, Starred
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From A Round Little Panda on the Big Blue Earth
(by Tory Christie/Amicus Ink)
“Powell evokes the beauty and deep greens of the bamboo forests, the intricate layers of the rice terraces, the warm pastels of the countryside, the deep rich tones of the city, and the bold brightness of the greater planet.”
—School Library Journal, Starred
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Luciana grew up in Brazil—where monkeys and toucans show up from time to time in the tropical rain forest that surrounds her parents’ home—but now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two sons, with whom she shares her love of the big, blue Earth. Visit her on Instagram at @lucianaillustration.
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From Light Speaks
(by Christine Layton/Tilbury House)
“The images are the star of the show,
making rich use of color to convey the idea of a shimmering universe.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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From Big Day! An Ocean Counting Book
by Erin Dealey (a work in progress)
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From the non-fiction board book Animal Wiggles
by Sibert Honoree Patricia Newman (a work in progress)
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From a work-in-progress authored and illustrated by Luciana.
(Currently on submission.)
A love letter to unsupervised, imaginative, action-filled play,
Play follows two kids to a plain playground…
full of fantastical possibilities.
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