“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
Category: Illustration
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
Another reader
Don’t forget the day job
It just occurred to me that I can show pieces from books I have worked on… The first book to show is ‘Red Light, Green Light’, written by Anastasia Suen and published by Harcourt a few years ago. A fun rhyming text and easy to illustrate, I tried to experiment with different coloured outlines as…… Continue reading Don’t forget the day job
Using watercolours. Or, is it watercolors?
I have always admired ‘watercolourists’! I also always thought, deep down, that it is a classical medium and that there are only so many ways to use it. But after seeing a few ‘modern’ ways to use watercolour I was inspired, or courageous enough to use them for the sketches stage of a new book…… Continue reading Using watercolours. Or, is it watercolors?
Another reader
“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.” John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)
The Illustrationist 