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Bookishness
Will started Pre-K today. His first day at three year old kindy and it was the cutest day ever. Little lunchbox, little bag, new shoes, new friends. I’m pretty sure he had a great time too, which is a...
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Oh boy! Am I on a roll!
Whoa! Momentum. I have REALLY been enjoying this little project! I now have a set of three. Series complete! Wanna see? OK! Here’s the new one I did today… (click to enlarge) And here is the series...
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Oh Neville!
Last night I Tweeted a pencil sketch of the next piece I was going to work on… …and here it is! All finished and polished and shiny and new. (click to enlarge) Rocket Man – Acrylic paint, pen,...
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Last one for a few days, I think
I don’t want to burn out! Having said that, I can’t actually 100% guarantee this will be the last one for a few days. Although I sort of hope so, because I could do with a few nights off. Unfortunately...
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Two days, two new pieces.
Normally, I hand paint all, or part of, whatever I’m working on, but this time I have completely coloured in photoshop. Every last little bit. I think maybe I like it? I think maybe it could go in the...
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I know what I like, and I like what I know.
Nope. I don’t think I can not paint. Was that sentence full of double (triple) (many) negatives? What I mean to say is, I think I have to stick with my half hand painted, half photoshopped...
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Would you like to see something new?
Something I did today? Ok! Here it is… Where has the weekend gone?!
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I am having one of those days!
One of those days where, no matter how long you look at it, or how long you spend moving things a round on it, changing colours, changing scale and adding textures to it, you just can’t seem to get it...
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Bookishness #2, and other stuff.
Well. I have found a new lovely book that I love. It’s called Sidney, Stella and the Moon by Emma Yarlett and it’s really quite wonderful to look at (excuse my chipped nail polish, please). The story...
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A whole day to myself. Wowsers!
So, I’ve been a very lucky today. Will’s been out on an adventure for the entire day. The whole day! Obviously, I love having Will around, but wow, I’ve had a whole day to myself. It’s been a so...
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Flashback Friday & Adventures with a new guy
I’ve been a little quiet of late, I know. A mix of concentrating on a book idea/illustrations for that book idea and sewing things and not feeling too well this week and being a mum to a three year...
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There is literally a dozen other things I should be working on right now
But I decided to do this instead. Procrastination! At its best. Can you find the boy with no name who I think might be called Hugo but I’m not 100% sure yet. Hugo or Milo. Or August. (click to enlarge)...
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Breakfast Doodles
Every other morning, over breakfast, I doodle. Sometimes the doodles stay doodles and get put away, and other times I make something of them. Yesterday I doodled, then last night I made these with...
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Not by the hair of my chiny chin chin!
Wow. This one has taken me three times longer than usual. Probably because I’ve redone most of it three times over. D’oh! The first version was fine but the pigs felt all wrong and it just felt…flat....
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Who’s down that hole?
Here’s another one that had bothered me for some time. But I think I’ve got it sorted now. Again, the original version of this was too flat. And I know why. I fell into the trap of doing all the...
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Fridoodles!
I haven’t got much in the way of colour stuff to show you at the moment, mostly because I’m busy reworking and fixing up older stuff to put into my portfolio, so, you’ve either seen it before or it’s...
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I coloured a Fridoodle and here’s how I did it.
I thought, seeing as I Instagrammed the process, I might as well make a wee blog post about how I got my Fridoodle from a pencil sketch to a fancy finished coloured piece of work. I worked on this on...
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There’s always one! Also, thank you SCBWI.
From last Thursday to last Sunday I spent four incredibly inspiring days on an island with a whole bunch of children’s book writers and illustrators. I know, right? How lucky was I?! Amazing, talented,...
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Remember yesterdays sketch?
I coloured it! All digitally this time, for two reasons, 1) Its just quicker and, 2) After a decade and a half of using photoshop, it appears I still don’t know it all, shocking! So I wanted to try out...
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I set myself a little two hour challenge today
The night before last, while all cosied up on the sofa watching TV, I made a little sketch in my sketchbook. Happens most nights, to be honest. I liked this one in particular though so I decided to...
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