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)