tides out

I have been plucking up the courage to post a picture on GCI`s blog.

I have decided on `Tides Out` a painting based on a photo i saw of a great fishing boat.

Two characters having tea with a bored dog.

I look forward to seeing some of the work from other illustrators that is mabey not represented on their webpage!

The Frankfurt Book Fair 2007

I spent two days last week 'walking the floor' of the Frankfurt Book Fair chatting to some of our existing customers and seeking out new ones. Quite exhausting but I hope ultimately quite productive too.

If you have never been to Frankfurt before, it is staggeringly large. So large that there are 'travelators' to speed up your progress between the halls...



And if walking seems too much like hard work as the day wears on, you can always hop on one of the courtesy shuttle buses that cruise endlessly around the perimeter of the Fair.

Rugby card finished

Well it's done, bar possible final tweaks by the client. I'm glad to get it out of the way, spare time is very short at the moment for various reasons and I've been promising this card since early summer!

Grandmas Visit

This is an illustration from a little story that I made about a little chap who makes a huge mess whilst getting ready for his grandmothers visit, in this picture he is "helpfully" washing up.

A Christmas card in progress

I've been asked to do an Xmas card for our Rugby Club this year so I thought you might like to see it as a 'work in progress'. I'm doing it digitally, in Corel Painter and using oil painting type brushes.

Here is the rough :

And here it is so far, I've dropped the line work onto the dark background and am applying layers of colour.


It looks quite dark at the moment but in the end I'd like it to have the feel of this card (in the best Blue Peter tradition, here's one I did earlier!):

Feel free to post comments!
Sue W

British Summertime

Just thought I would kick off this blog by posting a little drawing of a typical British summer, one when it doesn't rain the whole time and everyone has a chance to get attractive sunburn marks.