The weather has been so very warm these past few days here, it's curious that I should have unearthed this old, unfinished Christmas-themed project recently whilst rooting about for more watercolour paper.


Goodnight!

I find myself once again panicking  - about two deadlines this time. Argh.  My apologies if I haven't been leaving comments on friends' posts or replying to messages.

My recent entries have been too much full of gloom (well, I did warn some of you).  Of course, you always have the choice of ignoring these, since I almost always warn beforehand if it's going to be especially despondent.  Though I do wonder whether I oughtn't to dispense with all such emotive things and simply post pictures exclusively...

At all events, here's a glimpse of one of the things making me panic...



Oh, grief, look at the time...

A perambulating and rather sorrowful post.  It's also rather long as it deals with two events last week.  Please feel free to skip straight to the (hopefully) mildly interesting illustrations if you'd much rather.


These pages are from an anthology of animal stories published by Kingfisher.  The extract I illustrated is from Dick king Smith's The Hodgeheg.  I expect it should be available soon, if not already.  I don't have my artist's copies of it yet.  These scans were made, as usual, by the ever reliable funkyfilly. Thank you so much.

I've been a little excited about posting my illustrations from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book, published by The Folio Society this year. 

The Red Fairy Book is a collection of fairy tales which Lang collected and which formed part of his series of 'rainbow' fairy books, originally published in the 1890s.  I'm uncharacteristically pleased with most of them from this set (still one or two I'm not so happy with though!).  My former tutor (and now friend) thinks they're among my best work.

Many, many thanks again to funkyfilly, who scanned these from colour photocopies of the proofs. 

A sizeable peek at some of the progress for parts 2 and 3 of Unicorns, Almost (part 1), in case anybody is interested.

I began a silly personal project in the shape of a cartoon/comic about unicorns.  Yes, I'm afraid so.  Please be advised the image behind the cut is very large.
  Drat, I've just now realized the cut link can't be Italicised...

The final artwork for the binding design of Myths and Legends of Russia.

Because cabaretcarousel demanded it, here is the rough for the binding design of Myths and Legends of Russia. 

It features, of course, Tsarevich Ivan, the Grey wolf, and the Firebird.  They did happen to want them for the binding!  I'm going to Folio today to drop it off.  The decoration on Ivan's cloak is provisional.  I think I'm going to change it to something more organic (I usually prefer that anyway).

I'm still pleased about the new layout *grins*.