Thanks for commenting on my Substack, Jane - I love your Substack! Also love your walk!
As for things I have nightmares about being asked to illustrate: horses and bicycles!!! So the worst would being asked to illustrated a picture book about a family of bicycle-riding horses, of course.
Wow - reading about all your wonderful activities is like following a colourful character through a picture book, where each spread is even more lively than the last!
I love what your doing with your Dad's old photos, and that there's a whole body of work already that might lead to something else.
My trickiest illustration was for a book about racing cars - I had to show all the things that got checked and changed in a few seconds' pitstop (by rabbit mechanics) - I spent hours watching YouTube videos. And vowed never again!
Your shipyard collages are fantastic, they tell a great story when they are all together and they would make such an exciting book!
The work you make with children is always so wonderful, I especially love the collage dragonflies!
I had an illustrator's nightmare recently with a sunset - so difficult! It needed to bleed into a night sky with stars across a double page spread but the book was short and wide so not much space to fit the changing colours and stop them bleeding together into a mess. So many attempts to make it work, I have a lot of sympathy with your rainbow nightmare!
Thankyou so much Nanette! I am starting to put together the artwork for the mural now and grappling with the largest Photoshop file ever... but I am excited about how it's going to look as the children did such beautiful work. Watch this space! :)
Thankyou Martha, I like that description! Drawing a racing car pit stop does indeed sound like a nightmare - but alleviated by the rabbit mechanics! YouTube is such a handy resource for those illustrator nightmares...
Thanks for commenting on my Substack, Jane - I love your Substack! Also love your walk!
As for things I have nightmares about being asked to illustrate: horses and bicycles!!! So the worst would being asked to illustrated a picture book about a family of bicycle-riding horses, of course.
Oh my goodness, the thought of all those horses on bicycles is blowing my mind!! And also, thankyou! :)
Wow - reading about all your wonderful activities is like following a colourful character through a picture book, where each spread is even more lively than the last!
I love what your doing with your Dad's old photos, and that there's a whole body of work already that might lead to something else.
My trickiest illustration was for a book about racing cars - I had to show all the things that got checked and changed in a few seconds' pitstop (by rabbit mechanics) - I spent hours watching YouTube videos. And vowed never again!
Your shipyard collages are fantastic, they tell a great story when they are all together and they would make such an exciting book!
The work you make with children is always so wonderful, I especially love the collage dragonflies!
I had an illustrator's nightmare recently with a sunset - so difficult! It needed to bleed into a night sky with stars across a double page spread but the book was short and wide so not much space to fit the changing colours and stop them bleeding together into a mess. So many attempts to make it work, I have a lot of sympathy with your rainbow nightmare!
Thankyou so much Nanette! I am starting to put together the artwork for the mural now and grappling with the largest Photoshop file ever... but I am excited about how it's going to look as the children did such beautiful work. Watch this space! :)
Gosh those shipyard collages are so gorgeous (I think they'd make beautiful greetings cards!!)
Thanks Katie! I am just looking at some possibilities, watch this space! 😊
Thankyou Martha, I like that description! Drawing a racing car pit stop does indeed sound like a nightmare - but alleviated by the rabbit mechanics! YouTube is such a handy resource for those illustrator nightmares...