Illustration Friday - Red

Highlights Hidden Picture

Here's a recently illustrated page for a new
'Hidden Pictures' book for Highlights High Five.

 
I got the commission partly due to the image below,
which was an Illustration Friday submission back in April 2009!
The word was 'Fleeting'!

Illustration Friday - Voice

...and they sang with one voice.

Pancakes!

A day late...but yay, pancakes!!

Illustration Friday - Space

Space. It's infinite.
I'm absolutely certain there are

 penguins in spacesuits out there somewhere...

This one is called Brenda.

Illustration Friday - Prehistoric

Illustration Friday - Exotic

Highlights Hello Magazine - January issue

Here a couple of spreads I illustrated for the January issue of Highlights Hello Magazine...

A detail...

...which made me very nostalgic as I remembered back to
the days when my daughters were learning to walk!

Happy New Year!!

Well, it's a little late, but here's my Christmas/New Years card!!

Woo. 2014!

Let's see what it brings...

IF Together

Highlights Hello Spread

A spread I illustrated for the September issue of Highlights hello magazine...

IF Robot

(Sad) Robot...

Chloe the Storm Sister

'Chloe the Storm Sister', the eighth, and last in the series

of Spell Sisters books, has been published by Simon & Schuster.

Here's Chloe...

...and here she is in situ on the front cover!

And here's a colourful row of all eight books!

I'm sad to have finished the last book, but it's been a great series to illustrate.
Here are some of the internal b&w illustrations...

IF Worn (again!)

Well, this is is the first time I've noticed Illustration Friday suggesting 

a word that had been used before...

So, here's the image I posted for 'worn' back in July '09, followed by a back

view image of the same characters for 'worn' in June '13!!

And here are they are again...

IF Tribute

Tribute to Thor...

IF urban

Eglantine...

...following on from my IF 'egg' post here,
I present this little character...

Witch, Whale and Winter Parcel...

Here are some recent poem illustrations produced

for The Educational Company of Ireland
for their Primary English books.

(Click on images for larger versions)

IF egg

Spent an hour doodling 'egg'...
(Click on image for larger version)

mmmm.....

IF Eye Glasses

IF storm

Chinese Dragons

As it is almost Chinese New Year, I was reminded of some illustrations

I worked on last year for The Educational Company of Ireland.
I had to illustrate the Chinese Folk Tale 'Four Rivers', which

meant I got to draw lots of Chinese Dragons!!

 

 It's the story of how China got its four great rivers -
from the Yellow Dragon, the Black Dragon, the Pearl Dragon
and the Long Dragon!!

 I'd never drawn Chinese dragons before, but really
loved drawing them...and I intend to draw some more soon!

Here are some more images from the story...

(click on images for larger versions)

 

Olivia the Otter Sister

Olivia the Otter Sister, the seventh book in the Spell Sisters series, 

was published by Simon & Schuster last month.

Here's my cover illustration...

...and some of the interior illustrations...

(click on images for larger versions) 

 Gwen and Flora...

 Avalon coming to life...

...and Louis the dog, who plays an important role in the story.

 

 

And finally, a few of the colour sticker illustrations 

(all the books include free stickers!)

Here's Olivia...

and Louis...

...and an otter!!