Monday 20 July 2009

Beach finds. Compressed charcoal and pencil.
Here is an example of some of my black and white work. This image is made in compressed charcoal and was for an editorial brief for my degree.

Monday 6 July 2009

Children's Books I love and inspired by

Wonder Bear by Tao Nyeu; While You Are Sleeping, Beegu, Slow Loris by Alexis Deacon; Miki by Stephen Mackey; The Dancing Tiger Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher; The 108th Sheep by Ayano Imai; Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak; The Shy Pony by Margriet Heymans; Catherine and the Lion by Clare Jarrett; Tim All Alone by Edward Ardizzone; The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle; Augustus and his Smile by Catherine Rayner; The Root Children by Sibylle Von Olfers; Wolf, Button, Pinocchio by Sara Fanelli; Brave Bitsy and the Bear illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke; Ginger by Charlotte Voake; The Bremen Town Musicians, Little Hobbin, The Wizard of Oz', Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger; The Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmanns; The Moomin books by Tove Jansson; The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers; And if the Moon could Talk and others by Georg Hallensleben; The Red Tree by Shaun Tan.

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Illustration for New Fairy Tales' A Most Ordinary Boy.
Mother and baby dragon from New Fairy Tales' A Most Ordinary Boy. First dragon's I have painted! Image appears un-cropped.
This is one of the images for the New Fairy Tales story A Most Ordinary Boy. Image here is uncropped.
The new edition of New Fairy Tales, www.newfairytales.co.uk is out now. My work is featured in it illustrating A Most Ordinary Boy. Its exciting to see my work in print.

Currently working on a dummy for Ivy-Beatrice and the Field of Poppies. I'll add some roughs on here soon.