Ominous "PROJECT X"

I was asked to illustrate a small section of 'Macbeth for kids'.  The part I was given was towards the start where the three witches are on the heath with the mist and storm etcetc...

Couldn't go any bigger than A5 with it, which is considerably smaller than I usually work, but oh well.  I wanted to keep the witches awaaaaayyy from that whole stereotypical big-nosed-green-hag thang, so I worked with the ideas that witches are associated with shapeshifting/animals and such.  I like that it looks like they're just dressed up in creepy animal costumes too.

Aussie? I see.

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Ahoy!


Well, I've been doing lots of work on my current origami themed children's book, but you're not allowed to see that just yet..teehee!


However, I'll throw this into your eyes instead:

I finished this poster off really quickly, which was a wonderful feeling! I like to do little projects between hefty kids books and get things finished. I painted the hair, used pencils for the linework on the hair, bottles, logo etc and digital for the rest - whey!

I hope you have a lovely day.

Oh i am a slow loris.

"Long time no see!" you might say. Well, you'd be right. I haven't uploaded a jot for two months, but now, as a distraction from finishing my dissertation about Monsters I bring you three things I've been doing...


Number one

This is the cover for my finished children's information book Clouds and Weather Systems.

Lovely lovely. I'm very happy with it, Alan Male said he thought it was 'bloody good' so that's nice.  There are a few spreads from it up on the V&A website that I entered for the Student Illustration awards. 

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/illustration_awards/student2010/index.php

I really like painting birds and clouds so this was a pretty appropriate project.

Number two!

Another things I really like doing recently:.....ORIGAMI.  Mmmm, a little obsessed at the moment.  There are paper birds, butterflies and beetles adorning my desk.

Fold fold fold fold fold fold fold fold fold.

Anyway, I wanted to somehow weedle in some origami to a project, or two, so I've made a flyer for a sushi delivery service in London called YouMe Sushi.  There are instructions on the bottom of it for you to make your own origami prawn (which I made up...whey!) and you can tear off the top 3/4 to use as the square of paper to make it.  Then the plan is that you want to make the prawn again, so you keep the instructions, and therefore keep the contact details for the business...sneaky sneaks.

 I've also jammed origami into the book I'm illustrating/writing at the moment about a bored girl who finds an origami book..dot dot dot.

Number three!

This is a project I finished yesterday so I could get it in with the other work for assessment. I'd nearly given up on it and thought it looked terrible, but add brown paper to anything and you're on to a winner.  Well, not a winner but I think it looks quite good.  It's a book jacket for After Dark, a short novel by Haruki Murakami, a really great author so go and read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle now, or failing this, read Kafka on The Shore, but I haven't read that one yet....I hear it's brilliant.

Actually I have a number four too...

It's a poster for a National Trust nationwide event where you can go along and make lovely paper flowers.  They want to make the largest garden of paper flowers the world has ever seen, and with a message teaching about keeping your garden environmentally friendly - naww.

Well that's that. I hope you all have really lovely days.

Relics

Hello! Welcome to my writing. You are also very

warmly welcomed to my drawing and painting,

feel free to absorb it with gusto.

These are a few bits and peices from the past

that you might enjoy before I get a little more

up to date with uploading the work.