Monthly Archives: May 2011
playing princess for the day
While you can’t quite see the corgis in this photo, I did feel like I was making a royal visit to Roding Primary School in Essex, what with the fancy hat and getting to flounce about majestically all day. Today … Continue reading
fun with felt
Yesterday I made an alien card for head of comics translation website Comix Influx, Stephen Betts, since it was his birthday. (I almost never make birthday cards but I had some spare felt to hand.) Stephen recently showed me a … Continue reading
childhood painting
Back to the photos I found when I was back in Seattle recently… Here’s one of my all-time best days at school that I can remember as a kid. It was first grade, and our class was making a big … Continue reading
dinosaur-sized frustration
Everything I’ve been doing today has been so bitsy that it’s been making me very cross. I wanted to draw something simple and FINISH it. Then I slipped over to Steve Cole’s blog and saw a fabulous Astrosaur drawing by … Continue reading
unfinished tree sketches
I was doing several things around Telegraph Hill and started three different tree sketches but for various reasons didn’t manage to finish any of them. I’ll post them anyway, just so you can see some stuff I was experimenting with. … Continue reading
that’s why it’s called a die, not a dice
I thought I’d be clever and buy a giant inflatable die for events. But I just did a test run blowing it up and almost passed out. …I’ll have to be well famous before I can con a publicist into … Continue reading
cambridge sci-fi & fantasy night
Yesterday I went up to Cambridge to see my lovely editor friend Bridget Hannigan, coinciding with the Sci-Fi & Fantasy evening at Heffers bookshop that was so jam-packed with top speakers that it might as well be called a festival. … Continue reading
constructing monsterville!
I’ve finished my drawings for Monsterville, but now the technicians, set painters, sound engineers and printers are working busily to make it all happen! The fab head techie guy, Paul Callaghan, just sent through these photos. Here’s the basic frame … Continue reading
happy american mother’s day!
Here’s a little card I made. (Note the Princess Beatrice hat.) When I was back in Seattle, I found these fab pictures of my mother when she was just starting out as a teacher. Can you spot her in this … Continue reading
willow tree
Today’s return to landscape sketching. Wow, I feel so out of practice drawing trees! (Click here for some earlier work for my landscape drawing project.) I’ve never drawn a willow tree for more than a few minutes (this took an … Continue reading
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