I’ve been getting to grips with digital painting over the last few months. It’s nothing like good old fashioned paint and canvas, but it has some advantages worth making the effort for. The only comment I can offer which might be of any use is that illustrating digitally requires a different approach. Think of constructing…… Continue reading Experiments in lockdown
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Life size
We did it! The Life Size project is under way. About 100 children from Drayton Park School and myself painted a three metre tall giraffe in one school day. It was tight and I wish there had been more time, but it went smoothly. Life Size is all about showing children size and scale in real…… Continue reading Life size
Life size
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
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
iPhone illustrations
The task: once a week make a painting on iPhone of a ten minute speaker at a breakfast meeting. The results will be posted each week. This first picture is a test.
What’s in a toddler’s mind part 3.
The more I watch and observe, the more I learn, the more respect I give to babies and young children – to all young people (that goes without saying). When I worked in publishing I knew no one who had children and subsequently learned to use my editors, art directors and sales people as my…… Continue reading What’s in a toddler’s mind part 3.
The Illustrationist 