On Wednesday, 30th June, I ‘ll be painting a Giraffe with school children from Drayton Park School in North London. Nothing unusual about that other than the fact that we’ll be painting a(3m tall) giraffe on a canvas that’s 3 x 2.7 m (around 10ft each way)in size! Including this one I have done a…… Continue reading Life size
Category: african
Summer
This image is from one of my latest books in the UK, ‘Lenny in the Garden’.
The Weary Traveller
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Readers
“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.” W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965), The Razor’s Edge, 1943
Urbanation; Words from the street
Aikona = Never, Not on your life. Imagine that you are out on the town in Capetown and you get to a posh club in you jeans and T-shirt. The bouncer, known as ‘The Pope’ stands between you and heaven, if he give you his blessing. He looks you up and down and says “Aikona.” Night…… Continue reading Urbanation; Words from the street
The rise of the mobile device
‘On average there are now 60 mobile subscriptions for every 100 people in the world. In developing countries, the figure stands at 48 – more than eight times the level of penetration in 2000.’ from The guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/22/africa-mobile-phones-usage-rise Remember the phones, or weapons that also rang, from the 1980’s?
The Illustrationist 