It's been a while...

On Saturday we went to Oxford. This is a spread of sketches made in the wonderful Pitt Rivers Museum. It's been a while and I feel very out of practice!

Thornhill

I am working on a very exciting project at the moment. Here's the house where the story is set.

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

The Brockenspectre

Today I was very happy to walk into Heffers Children's Bookshop and see Linda Newbery's new book, The Brockenspectre, on the shelf. I was lucky enough to be illustrating it this summer. It is my 2nd book illustrating one of Linda's texts - the first, Lob, was published in 2010. 

You can read more about Linda Newbery here:

http://www.lindanewbery.co.uk/

And the first review of the book can be seen here:

http://www.welovethisbook.com/reviews/brockenspectre

Here are some examples of the illustrations in place in the book:

And here are examples of pages where I worked out roughs or character studies, or scanned artwork out of the sketchbook pages...