I've been playing around with different ways to colour black and white images and I've found a nice digital brush that I like.  It's a lot faster than my usual method so that's a bonus.  Here are a few of my experiments.

Welcome to Hartlepool

This is my competition entry based around the story of the Hartlepool monkey.  Being a children's writer I wanted a happier ending to my story.  I wondered what would happen if a monkey spy really washed ashore and set out to infiltrate a town.