[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-santa-shark":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm getting really into silly sea life these days.\\r\n \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_shark_santa1_zps7a6e9aa1-467b306570.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the tricky things about having a studio is that I leave most of my art supplies there. So when I want to draw things at home, sometimes I have to scrabble around for bit and bobs to colour things. Last weekend I cleaned out my desk and found a pack of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.letraset.com/products/8-ProMarkers/\">Letraset Promarkers\u003C/a> I didn't know I had. I think I bought them because Posy Simmonds had told me she used them to add the blue tone to her book \u003Ci>Tamara Drew\u003C/i>. And they work beautifully! I had fun colouring these Santa Sharks.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_shark_santa_cards_zps4f52a942-c1e7b60b0e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>\u003Ci>There's a Shark in the Bath\u003C/i>\u003C/b> doesn't come out with Scholastic UK until 2 January. (...But I hope all the shops are putting in their orders now!) In the meantime, I've made up some Santa Sea Monkey gift tags, which you can download as part of the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/606134.html\">Seawigs Perfect Prezzie Pack\u003C/a>. (They're free, and you can use them for prezzies other than my book, that's okay.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/606134.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_xmas_tags_zps30fdd90b-fc548957bf.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIf you still haven't seen the interior pages of \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i>\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CuteNosferatu\">Jonas Anderson\u003C/a> has tweeted a Vine video with a little peek:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2453\"/>\\r\n\\r\nLast week \u003Cb>Philip Reeve\u003C/b> announced \u003Cb>Mortal Engines Week\u003C/b>, and posted a fragment of the fourth book in the Fever Crumb quartet, the Mortal Engines prequels. You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/whatever-happened-to-arlo-thursday.html\">head over to his blog and read it here\u003C/a>! And don't miss some of the \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">other posts\u003C/a>, there's some fascinating Mortal Engines inspired artwork there.","2013-12-18T09:13:00.000Z","santa-shark",[],"santa shark!",1776628726014]