[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-exotic-travels":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I have LOADS to blog about this weekend - my first eBooks! Exeter's animation festival! - but I promised myself I'd get a whole picture book spread painted today, so I'll have to blog about those later. But I thought I'd post a few drawings and photos from my interplanetary trip. This is how I looked on my spaceship about 9:30 last night. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_mcintyre_railsleep_zps941e7b21-18acafb199.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYesterday morning, I did some exploration of the martian terrain. (Funny, I thought Mars would be much hotter.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_snow_zpsdd51dfa7-080b9b9ff0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd aliens! I met aliens! These two are named Alfie and Iggie. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alpacas_dartmoor_zps96553b22-db886a82db.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more drawings and photos under the cut-->\\r\nI spotted strange liquid formations on the planet's surface: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_icicles_zps160158c2-6a51e3bdcc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd found it was inhabited, and not just by aliens, but by two eccentric explorers from Earth, named \u003Ca href=\"http://instagram.com/moorland\">Sarah\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_sarah_bonehill_zps449b512c-d24971e7c4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Sarah, back at the comfy space station. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_reeve_armchair_zpsba8e6360-992b062d08.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI made an alien comic with their hatchling, Sam:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sam_comicsjam_zpsf834ec01-838d774962.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd we left a coded message to beam back to Gary, my studio shipmate:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_bum_zps470e8487-de55e40e2c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBack on Planet Earth now, but just before landing, I caught \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_of_the_baskervilles\">one last glimpse\u003C/a> of the alien landscape:  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_of_the_baskervilles\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baker_street_baskervilles_zpsb89b4ce1-f0e46977d9.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2013-02-25T12:49:00.000Z","exotic-travels",[],"exotic travels",1776628724798]