A Valentine's Day ACEO for my wife! I was thinking of the creatures we see around us and the nice things that make us happy, especially at this time of year.
ghost blog
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Ellie's picture
I was commissioned to create a picture for my cousin's daughter who is now 4 years old! Hope she likes it. She wanted lots of pink creatures, butterflies and giraffes. You can also find her name (Elen), a trumpet, a Giant Anteater, a Mole, a Bullfinch, a Roseate Spoonbill, a Whitethroat, a Robin, a Long-eared Owl, a Fox with a top hat (of course) and two Badgers, amongst other things...
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Elen's picture,
giraffes,
pink animals
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Christmas card and Creative Tuesdays
A design for a Christmas card, with local landmarks as a backdrop. Poor, neglected Ghost Blog :-)
I just added this to the Twelve days of Christmas theme for Creative Tuesdays:
http://creativetuesdays.blogspot.com/
Monday, 5 September 2011
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Sketchbook Ghosts
This is an old ghost image from my sketchbook which may be used for some flyers advertising a Halloween film night locally. No pay, but it's nice that something hidden away in a dusty old sketchbook is being seen by people!
Friday, 12 August 2011
Happy Birthday Luke!
I made this image for Luke, my cousin's son who is 6 on Sunday. According to his mum, I needed to include some dangerous animals and also some that he'd seen around... so this is the result. His name is hidden somewhere in the picture too. I hope he likes it!
Labels:
animals,
Birthday card
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Cat goes to another world
Trying out 9B pencil, for fun... I quite like the smoothness of the line, the way different pressures can create different types of line, texture etc. It seems good for creating ambiguity, darkness and the sense of movement. Not sure about the smudginess but maybe that's part of the charm. I think I'll try a few more illustrations with this pencil.
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9B pencil
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Book illustrations!
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| Dodo |
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| It's 5th from the left, the light blue cover - Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher? by David Turner |
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| Crow by the roadside |
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| Great Bustard displaying |
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| Great Crested Grebes dancing |
This is the David Turner book Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher? (Summersdale Publishing) that I did a series of black and white bird illustrations for in the winter. I took a photo of this copy in Waterstone's, Greenwich town centre, today. My first ever published book illustrations!
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