[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-adventuremice-work-in-progress":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Right now I'm working on a series of books I'm doing with Philip Reeve called \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/adventuremice\">Adventuremice\u003C/a>, initially inspired by the mouse ship paintings I made during Lockdown. It's taking quite a lot of time because we're doing each page full-colour, old-school watercolour, but I think it will end up looking more lush for that. Here's a piece of two-page artwork (a 'double-page spread' in picture book lingo) that I finished the other day, I like how it came out. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1174533_original-2cc513c440.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe gaps in the artwork are where the words will go; there's quite a complicated way of doing light-coloured text on black background that made the piece take even longer, but I think that will make it look more luminous. \\r\n\\r\nIn other news, I put in a bit of time today painting another shield for Philip and Sarah Reeve's \u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/gwenevere.html\">Arthurian Film\u003C/a> they're getting ready to shoot this autumn. I really do love painting those shields, there's something so nice about spreading paint on a big surface after all the more fiddly, small-scale illustration work.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1174976_original-e16b983a85.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.7em\">Photo by Philip Reeve\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: \u003C/i>Here are all but two of the shields we've made, laid out: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1175099_original-2b341acc80.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.7em\">Photo by Philip Reeve\u003C/span>\u003C/i>","2022-07-26T20:35:00.000Z","adventuremice-work-in-progress",[],"Adventuremice, work in progress",1776628731493]