• I can’t believe a week has gone by since The Great Malarkey Children’s Festival in Hull.

    I got back Sunday night and had to pile straight into a major rewrite of a story on Monday and Tuesday before heading off to London on Wednesday for the Fabulous Harper Collins 200th Birthday Party at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Then, On Thursday I gave a YouTube tutorial to Authors at the Society of Authors in the morning followed by a Children’s writers and illustrators committee meeting in the afternoon. Paddington was closed, so I had the most horrendous journey home, in the heat, staring up in numerous, boiling hot railway carriages, so today, having just spent the afternoon on a major weeding expedition – they keep growing while you are away – is the first day I’m starting to feel a  bit relaxed again!

    Anyway, here are all the remaining videos that I made about the sketchbook I kept at the festival, as the Illustrator in Residence.

     

     

  • Today I’ve been at the children’s book festival – the great malarkey – in Hull which is on the East Coast of England. I’m the illustrator in Residence all week and will be filling my sketchbook up – have a look to see what I did today.

  • This is an illustration of an Evil Lizard drawn with pen and ink and a single colour grey watercolour wash to add tone. A great style for black and white illustrated books.

    You can get a hi-res copy of this image here 

    This video is inspired by my Scaredy Cats story video – The Killer Catflap – you can see the video here 

    More details about the Scaredy Cats book can be found here

    and you can get the books from Amazon here in the UK

    and here in the US