A bespectacled dog...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I've been illustrating these 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' characters,
following prompts from Daily Doodle...

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Doodles...

A few doodles from the past week...

A poodle doodle...

A cat caught in the act...

And an Italian cat!

Just some foxes...

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Highlights High Five Hidden Picture Spread

I got to illustrate dragons and elves for a recent Highlights

'Let's Play Hidden Pictures' magazine!

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Really enjoyed doing the fantasy backgrounds...

Spot the hairbrush...!

Little Viking Boy

Little Viking for Daily Doodle...

Small Boy Big Hat

Small Boy Big Hat...
(another daily doodle)

Three Little Pigs

Another pic for Daily Doodle...
The Three Little Pigs. In knitwear.

Daily Doodle

Illustration for Daily Doodle...
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The themes were 'The Hungry Caterpillar', The Cat in the Hat' 

and 'The tiger who came to tea'...if you couldn't guess?!

Any illustrators who haven't come across 'Daily Doodle' yet,

 check it out on Twitter or Facebook!

twitter.com/Daily__Doodle  

or  

www.facebook.com/DAILYD00DLE

There are some really excellent illustrations popping up there!!

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.

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