big fish

Did this one as a treat for myself for surviving the grueling last few months!

I just can’t figure out which fish I am…

beastly fun

Recently, I found myself in the middle of a publishing maelstrom, the deadlines for next year’s school sylabus had everybody in a frenzy! With more work coming in than ever before, I had to get creative about stretching my styles without losing time…

These illustrations come from a couple of different stories for Cambridge University Press, do you see the subtle variation in style?

This next one featured a “funny” dog, that’s all the motivation I needed to cast my Una as the lead role :)
(Una is a basset, they’re pretty funny… but next time I’ll use Zoe [the pug] they’re even funnier)

I was walking the other day...

It was a tuesday, I think, and I was walking through the forest at the foot of the mountain that sits in the heart of the city, I veered from the usual way and before I knew it I was very lost indeed!

When I could spot the rocky peaks again, I couldn’t recognise my mountain, it had become another mountain altogether!

Then, from my left, a rustling…

So I grabbed my sketchbook :)

website’s done!

So, like, after a million years, I got around to making and actually finishing my official website (there were a few partially finished mutants on the way).
I recently discovered googlesites which lets me maintain things easily enough until the next evolutionary spurt…

Without further ado, let me present…. me!

going to the circus

Ola strangers!
At least... I’m the stranger. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything regular and for that I apologise. Bad form that is.
To fill you in quickly: I went on holiday and when I returned I hit the proverbial ground at a full sprint! Publishing kept me very busy and by the time things got ‘normal’ again I’d lost the habit of regularly posting stuff.
So enough with the hiding! And on with the show!

 
One of the things that kept me away was the 4th activity book featuring our friend: Toko, the apparently multi-talented gecko! This time around the theme was ‘the circus’ which invites all sorts of fun.

And these are some of the interior pages…

I really enjoy working on these and I’m delighted that I get to work on these activity books again and again, as a kid I’d always wondered about the people putting these things together :)

Remedy this!

A while back we, my good pal and co-loon Maloney and I, created a spin off cartoon strip from our Opera Savannah greeting cards...
It dealt with the day-to-day rituals of a quirky meerkat family and some other beasties from the neighbouring veld.

Meet Albert. That reclusive uncle, the ever vigilant scientist, always ravenous for knowledge; you know the one, every family has one of those!

New pages/tab

Is everyone having a good monday?
…how about you, Garfield?

…

Well that says it all!

Anyway, I digress. For your convenience (and mine) I've added a portfolio/gallery page which you might already have noticed at the top of the blog, on the nav bar… "Older kids", see it?

This one collects illustrations intended for an older audience than the "Children's illustrations" page.

now, carry on...