new books

Here is a link to the latest set of books I've received through post. These turned out really nice and colourful :0)
Hope everyone had a lovely time over christmas and are looking forward to a very happy and healthy 2014!

Merry Christmas everyone!

just want to take this opportunity to wish everyone who follows me a very happy time over the holiday season and all the very best for a happy, healthy and prosperous new year :0) xx

December can only mean one thing...

It's getting closer. Are you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside?

experimental work

So I'm playing around with different ways of working tonight. This is a little experiment in a more textural approach.

so it's that time of year....

It's getting to be colder and it's only going to get even colder! So here I am today...snuggled in my big chunky mans scarf and big oversized jumper. Brrrr!

sneek peeks 2

Been working on new christmas designs!

The christmas spirits is rising :0)) 

sneek peeks

Hi Folks! Just thought I'd post some little samples of work I've been doing over the past couple of days. I'm in between jobs just now so have a bit of time to experiment and develop a few ideas which is nice :0)

little bird

I seem to get very little time to develop up new concepts these days. At the moment I am working on colouring in books and have a new board book to start which has lots of different animals in it :0)

Plus I have some bath books on the cards too.

Here is a little design I worked on last month.

Back home

I've been away for a week to Egypt which was glorious...wall to wall sun, sea and relaxing. Fabulous. Now I'm back it's wall to wall grey sky, rain and work!
It does not fill me joy the thought of this interminable bad weather we have here from now on til around may....so I will just have to content myself with the memories of sun!
you can see more of my pics here

Bug vinyl stickers

Got these in the post yesterday and really pleased with how they turned out :0)
We had a little fun sticking them on last night.
You can get them here

Zoom!

Updates! Work is going ok....waiting on feedback as usual :0( Got a small job on today doing a little fisherman character for packaging. Working on textile designs too. 

See the zooming turtles!

working!

I've been waiting on feedback with jobs so right now I am playing around with patterns, characters and colour which is always lots of fun :0))

Weather here is dull, grey and damp-the sort of weather I hate so it is a good thing I can brighten up my day myself! 

work and play

I am reading this wonderful book right now. I'm absolutely loving it! Obviously I'm not reading it in french but the translated version and oh! it's so so wonderful :0)) I love the film so it stood to reason for me to read the book.

Work wise I am ploughing on. Here is a little peek at some of the textile design I've been working. I am also doing kids books for 3 different clients and did a scraper board type illustration for bakery packaging depicting a rural landscape.  

Go the hedgehogs!

I watched this programme "Britain's Big Wildlife Revival"

 the other night and really enjoyed it. Among other interesting animal related topics they told the story of the plight of the dwindling hedgehogs which I find really sad. I am a life member of the British Hedgehog Preservation society and I would hate to see a decimation of the population to the point of extinction....they said it could happen by 2025  if I remember correctly. so here is my little hedgehog character to raise some awareness. Please look out for our little prickly friends!

New work to show!

Have some work to show!

Here are some images of the books that you can find here, here and here.

Also you can see some images of new work in the book section of my website here. 

some new work!

I received these samples through the post this morning so thought I'd give you a sneak peek :0)

4 Bath books with pictures only. They float in the water when you close them up. Nice and colourful and fun!

You can buy them- boat and fish and frog and duck

at last! something to show :0))

So here we are-some work!!-I got these through the post yesterday and am delighted with how they have turned out :0))

Lot of fun to do too.

You can get them here, here and here

sketchy bits

Still not able to show any printed work. I have some dummy copies of some books I've done from the publisher but can't show them! So here are some recent sketches I did for a job.

found!

I found this design in a Barnardos charity shop last week and it's mine! the illustration part is anyway.

I'm back!

Back home from a lovely holiday in Turkey :0)

Straight back into work. Got a jumbo puzzle to do right now which is fun.

Still no samples of any earlier work to show as yet but hopefully soon!

Up up and away!

So it's that time of year again at last! Holidays!!! YES!!! Been so needing it this year as didn't get one last year due to health reasons. So this will be last post from me for a little while.

Here is a little sneak peek of some work I've been doing recently....it's gone to print now and once I have copies I'll post about it.

Catch up soon :0))

fruit, plants and work

Well I am still mega busy with work so can't show anything here. It'll all get printed at a similar time and then I'll have tons to show I hope. I have other jobs that have been printed but sadly I am not getting copies...I hate when that happens. You ask but then they don't send you them :0(

then you have to go searching online to see if you can find them.

For now here are some pics taken in my garden plus my fruity overload....will need to get stuck into this lot!