Nearly there...

My holiday starts tomorrow, yippeee!

I've had a very very busy week, doing as much as I can for various projects before setting off for Spain.

In amidst all this chaos, I was invited by Olesya Shchukina to submit an illustration for the 2nd issue of the Russian/German magazine Ohrannik spravok ne daet. It sounded really interesting, so despite my ever-growing and worryingly BIG list of things to do, I decided to take part. 

The project involves 30 illustrators taking 1 square of the EuroVelo map (a bicycle map connecting various cities in Europe), and interpreting and illustrating it in their own way. The magazine will piece together all these pieces, forming a big poster of the whole map in B/W. It will also appear in colour as a big map made of 20 x 20 cm printed canvases during an exhibition dedicated to presentation of the 2nd issue. The presentation will take part on 24th september 2010 in Nest gallery above Nest cafe in Kreuzberg district, Berlin.

My square was a whole square of sea, just to the east of Iceland. Simple enough, except I only had a little over 24 hours to start and complete it! Slightly sleep deprived and delirious, but I'm so happy I managed to do it!!! 

At long last i can finally start thinking of my holiday...bliss!

See you in 10 days :)

on my desk...

...some coloured pencils
                                      

...today I bought some lovely coloured and beautifully textured patterned paper :)

 ...the board I work on

hmmm, what's going on with this new blogger malarky? I can't work it out :( how frustrating!

work in progress...

I'm off to Spain on holiday next week (yay!), but first I have to tackle a BIG mountain of work (boohoo!).

I'm working on my third book for Lion Hudson. Here's a pic of my studio floor.

Animal Parade!

Here is the birthday card I worked on for PK Press.

I had fun with this one. Maybe I should make a felt toy animal parade!

more toys!

More new toys in my Etsy shop!

bits

August already!

I will possibly be spending the rest of this Summer buried under a mountain of work, working towards a couple of deadlines in September.

I just finished working on a birthday card for PK Press. Here are some left over bits.

I'll show you the card soon!

I am it

Many summers ago I went on a big road trip with my mum around USA. I picked up this notebook in a junk yard. Such a strange and funny book. I wonder how old it is and who it belonged to...