• In this video I do a lot of drawing and painting and talking about artwork and making children’s books as I create the final artwork for the image I prepared as a rough in the previous video 

    My Editor, Janet, loved the sketches I sent her and now it is a race against time to finish the artwork for the print deadline. I need to paint at least eight images a day, preferably more. It doesn’t help that Mrs Rayner is going away for a week and I have to spend a day in London and we have builders in, who I have to lease with, and cook supper for my aged Mother and go shopping for her and me and my son… but I will get there in time, even if I have to work late in the evenings. It’s part of the “Glamour” of being an illustrator.

    Actually, that sounds like the title of a video blog!

    It is all painted greyscale as It is going to be a back and white book.The colour I use is:
    Neutral Tint Half Pan Watercolour Paint
    http://amzn.to/2ymFRJI in the UK
    http://amzn.to/2Cbk5f5 in the USA
    http://amzn.to/2E5E3t4 in Canada

  • Grab Yourself a Firefly Bargain

    For the next 2 days of January, my dragon trilogy books are on sale for HALF PRICE! only on the Firefly Press Website.

    This is a real bargain, especially when you hear that postage and packing are completely free in the UK!

    That is an offer you just can’t miss.

    Ever wondered about Tân, the dragon, and how he cam to be living with Harri and how his whole world was turned upside down because he owned a real, fire-breathing dragon?

    Tân is the Welsh word for fire. The trilogy roams across Snowdonia, from the fictitious St. Gertrudes – Based of Holywell, where my grandmother was born and raised – to Dinas Emrys – the fabled stronghold of Merlin the Magician. Are all the old prophecies coming true? Surely they are just old stories!

    Here are the direct links:

    Dragon Gold

    Dragon White 

    Dragon Red
    While you are there, you can fill your basket up with other brilliant and award-winning books form Firefly.

  • Poor Benni is freezing his knees off on my new website PenniAndBenni

    You will also notice that there is a countdown, letting you know there are 15 days to go til, “Something special comes this way.”

    That’s when the whole point of Penni and Benni becomes clear.

    Go and have a look at what it’s all about so far!