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
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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)
The carpet
London to Newcastle
“The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.” Unknown
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
The Illustrationist 