My journey of 10,000 illustration hours began in photography, pixels were morphed into digital art, expanded via pigments in traditional arts and graphic design to build and hone the skills required for my imagery creation and layout design.
I guess it’s reasonable to not have written a blog for almost 4 months, considering the world has been turned upside down and disassembled in many parts and is still in varying states of sickness and rebuild- RATS.
All that jazz aside, I will write on- writing picture books that is, images are my weapons of choice, It’s much easier for me to…
So this is Xet, A barn Owl from a picture book “Erut Xet” to be released…
Read MoreWell, I know mine is, but what isn’t these days?
Making images- art- illustrations- a picture on a page- whatever you call it, is such a process of the moment.
The method evolved by the artist- the
Read MoreThese patient little fairies have been waiting in my sketchbook for around 3 months until I could do more illustrator studies to add to as illustrator diary posts.
Read MoreHere are the latest spreads from my Illustrator diary, these are two of my favourite author-illustrators.
I had a lot of fun studying Beatrix Potters illustration style, her clever use of colour and fun delicate drawings are enchanting, and was definitely my favourite in this series so far.
Of course, Dr Seuss was
Read MoreToday is the day I start to share my illustrator diary.
It’s no secret, that to become skilled in art many artists recommend to copy other artists work,
FOR LEARNING PURPOSES only of course. This is where you try to work out ‘how did they do that’ and then you
My traditional illustration tools,
Some people would say I am a little traditional- especially with my love of traditional Art media, and holding a good old fashioned Book or shiny magazine in your hands and turning the pages.
However, I do also love the Digital world- carrying a treasure trove in a pocket- is amazing.
But when it comes to
Soon to be released “Human Energy”, A Sumi-e Art story of energy and humans’ being.
Spontaneous ink paintings explore moods such as love, life and dance, as an art picture book.
Read MoreI’m excited to announce I have a few designs available on a new product - Yoga Mats!!!!, they are 60cm x 178cm) (24 x 70 inch.)
The designs so far include a watercolour yoga pose designs on blue, teal and black. These are now available with matching tote bags. Click on image for details of each.
Read MoreMy latest Fine Art photography calendar of twelve a.door.able doors in Italy was released today (yay) and is available in link and via all good book stores.
If the favourable computer fairies come to play for a while- a Monochrome Door Calendar will be released shortly..... unless they don't then you might need to wait a bit.
The doors in Italy are so beautiful, to live behind one would be such a lovely welcome on your return home
Read MoreItaly truly is an amazing and beautiful place to visit, the weather was superb when we were there earlier this year, and the food was -- AMAZING-- I hope I get the opportunity to return very soon as I absolutely adore it.
I have just published this Fine Art Wall Calendar available for sale now at
Read MoreThe White Rhino is my final drawing for a great short Natural History Illustration course I have just completed. The course helped me understand graphite and I really enjoyed closely observing the natural world and the application of Science in drawing, I am looking forward to doing more Natural History-style illustrations and
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