Advent 2015

So here are all the picture together! Was so much fun doing these and a great, fun challenge to come up with a new image each day. been so wonderful seeing everyone else's advents too. 

Looking forward to 2016!!

Advent 24

Well this is it! The countdown is finished! The big day cometh tomorrow!

hope everyone has a fabulous time over the festive period :0)

Advent 23-Christmas parsnip

What goes with a Christmas sprout? A Christmas parsnip of course!. Ok so I've lost it....christmas drives me crazy.

Advent 22

Advent 20 and 21

Advent 19!

Advent 18-a cute ickle Turkey :0)

Advent 17

I made it snow!

Advent 16

Advent 15

advent 14

advent 12 and 13 :0)

Advent 11

Advent 10-Christmas squirrel!

Advent 9-christmas narwhal!

Advent 8-reindeer

advent 6 & 7

Advent 5 -snowman!

Christmas walrus 4!

advent 3

December 2nd!

1st December!

So after much deliberation I've gone down the route of producing an advent calendar image for the next 25 days :0)

Here is the first! Hope you like it :0)

Feeling fruity

Getting increasingly fed up with the drab weather we're having here so to cheer me up I've gone a bit fruity this morning :0)

winter kids

I am awaiting feedback today so in meantime enjoying a little self indulgence and doodling up some little winter kiddies :0))

Hope you like them so far!

Post Halloween characters

So I worked these up along with some other halloween related work that isn't posted here.

Really fun to see them coloured up and coming to life :0)

Halloween greetings!

Halloween is nearly upon us!, not that I am doing anything special. This is about the extent of my Halloween celebrations- a new design!

Of course we will get a real pumpkin and deliberate over what to carve into it. I do like a Halloween pumpkin :0))

Hope everyone enjoys a very spooky time! :-o

Boo! review

A lovely review of Boo! here

sketchy goodness

Been doing quite a bit of farm sketching over last couple of days. Really fun to do.

Autumn is here

Well and truly...but it's so nice. The weather has been very temperate and today we have lovely sunshine which looks just stunning on the beautifully coloured autumn leaves. Here's a little bear to celebrate the beginning of Autumn...may it stay beautiful and dry :0))

sneak peek

Amusing myself while I wait on feedback from clients :0)

Earlier this week I got the unfortunate news that a job I had the green light for was cut :0(

I had 3 titles to work on but it's now down to only one.

I had some spare time so had started working up one of the illustrations and here is a little sneak peek at it.

I've heard no more about the remaining title so far but I hope to soon.

I have another 2 book projects I'm working on that have been ongoing for a little while now but hoping to get them all wrapped up very soon.

I also have a project which is a cover for a publishers for their Frankfurt fair catalogue and some possible sticker work from Italy!

self promo

Been working on some some more self promo between waiting on client feedback. I can't believe it's becoming autumn! Yes! there is a halloween pattern in there :0)

Eee haw!

A cute little donkey :0))

work and play

Was my daughter's 18th birthday recently and I made this card for her-she likes pineapples :0)

Been relatively busy. Doing books with the following themes- dinosaurs, farm and sea.

Starting a new project of books including dogs, cats and bears.

WIP-buzzy bees!

Got some nice work on just now. A couple of books for one publisher-one with farm theme, other with dinosaurs.
Also got another 2 books for a different publisher-one with farm theme, other with sea theme.
Here's a little sneaky peek at a buzzy bee from one of the books!

A smug friday Pug!

My daughter has a liking for pugs. No we are not getting one. This is the closest she'll get!

hello crab :0)

testing gif

Wanted to see if this little fella will perform :0)

hello!

Mojo is back. Goodie!

I'm working on a project today and I hope it will come through successful.

Playing around with icons and will see how it pans out.

In meantime here is a little crab friend :0))

Creativity- where are you?!

I'm in a bit of a creative rut right now :0((
Lack of work quite often leads me to be despondent about my work in general.
It's a nasty thing!
When I have lots of work on I am infinitely more creative.
Although I've been doing a little bit of sketching I've not really thought clearly about giving myself a project to work on.
The weather is also not helping me...I find wet, cold weather extremely depressing.
So I am going to try and think about a new project tomorrow!
Creative rut be gone!

New books!

Got some new books today-Brazilian versions and English.

So funny to see the foreign books. "Tum Tum" for Kiss! "Chuaaa" for Fish!

farming it

Waiting for client feedback today so far. Working on some farm themes while I wait :0)

Hello!!!

I'm back in business now :0)) Delighted to report I spy on the farm was published last week. A book chock full of activities and stickers for little ones.

Yes!

It's holiday time for me! Will be back to work on the 23rd or 24th depending on flights :0)

sneek peak

A little peak at what I'm currently working on.

Past project

This was going to be a part of my website design a number of years ago now. I still like the overall effect of it although it's wasn't quite right for my purposes at the time. 

Telling time

If you want a fun book to teach your little one how to tell time then go here to buy it now! :0))

Also out now are these super cute puppet head books on manners. Buy them here and here