PORTFOLIO • ILLUSTRATION WORK

Olive & Cocoa has built something rare: a catalog with a recognizable artistic identity. The illustrated covers featuring their two signature characters are distinctive enough to be spotted across a room, and that visual consistency carries through every page. It's a balance of playful and refined that's genuinely hard to achieve.

I'm Myra Romano, an illustrator and creative director with 25 years of experience across Fortune 500 brands, published children's books, and independent product development. My work shares that same balance: character-driven scenes in watercolor and decorative line that are warm without being saccharine, detailed without being stiff. My published illustration work includes four books through Pink Umbrella Books and Cider Mill Press. Below is a curated selection of spreads from the picture book "Shoes," chosen to show the style closest to your catalog work.