A Halloween Cartoon to Share...

With Halloween coming up, this seems like a good cartoon to share. It's in the newer, "digital ink and wash" style I've been experimenting with. But most of all, it's for fun and to brighten your day.

Feel free to pass it along to anyone else who might enjoy it too, and have a great day.

Update: This proved popular, so it's now available as a card on Zazzle, (and customisable too, so not just for Halloween)

The Early Years Teacher's Toolkit Is Out (With My Illustrations)

Yay! At last, the ebook I've just illustrated for Leonie Abrahamson is for sale on Amazon. So if you know any Early Years teacher trainees (or anyone who works with them) please point them in the direction of , "The Early Years Teacher Toolkit Series: Preparing for Your Early Years Initial Teacher Training."

Many thanks!

Sneak Peek at a New Project...

What's this illustration all about? None other than a new collaboration, and a new way of working.

Working with the fabulous  author Leonie Abrahamson to illustrate the first in her new "Early Years Teacher Toolkit" series...I've discovered that I can cartoon in (digital) ink and wash. And that I love it...

This illustration is just one of the various icons and pictures in the new guide.

Watch this space for more when the eguide is out...

Update: You can now buy the guide here.

Flamenco Painting & 100th Post

According to Google, this  painting is the 100th post. Appropriate then, that a blog which began with my trying to work out why I'd fallen into digital art at all should mark the milestone with a first painting in motion.

It's also the first that's portrait, one of the first featuring a person, and one of the first in which words popped into my head that just had to be included.

Firsts in a group like that usually lead somewhere significant, and I know they will. Looking forward to finding that path, because the urge to follow it-even to an unknown destination-is building...

Update: You can get this image on a postcard here...

New Digital Painting: Wisteria Waterfall

Apologies that it's been a few week (a stange and bizarre few weeks, but that's another story). Here's the latest digital painting. It's the best attempt I can make so far to capture the "waterfall effect" of wisteria in blosson, with it's lovely gradients of indigo-purple blue to lilac white.
 

Here, it's against maybe a Cotswold stone wall, but let it take you into the bee-buzzed drowsiness of an English summer afternoon, wherever you happen to be as you read this. Enjoy!