Book Nook Blue

Another colour_collective.  This time they chose a colour that I use all the time.  This dark blue features heavily in my work. Trying to decide what to do felt odd because I've never noticed how much I use it before.  To do something specifically with this colour felt like pressure had been added.  Anyway, I like the beaver.

Read together

Read Together

A GIF I made of a recent illustration.

Now available as a greeting card.  Click here to go to the shop.

 

Snuggle Up With A Good Book...too

Recently I made a digital poster and I liked it so much that I made a screen printed version which looks eerily similar.

These prints are available to buy here

Here are a few photos of them in progress...

Snuggle up with a good book

I've been making a lot of posters recently and it's quite addictive.  This is the first in a set of three that I'll hopefully screen print soon.

Cambridge MA Children's Book Illustration Show

The bad news is my boyfriends trousers did not make it.  They are now holier than a trouser ought to be.  The good news is that they were made into this dorky little fellow as part of our graduation exhibition.

Details of the exhibition and a sneak peek at our work can be found here... cambridgemashow.com

And here is my wee beaver.

                                                

Which one's the dummy, dummy?

I've been beavering away trying to get all my work ready for hand in.  Sadly my days as a student are numbered but today saw the arrival of my blurb book, just as I finished making my own dummy in case the nice shiny one didn't arrive.  So which is the dummy, dummy?

                                                                           
                                                        Oh OK.  It's the one on the left.

Merry happy!

No I am not overwhelmed by christmas cheer but leaving tomorrow for home which might as well be sign posted as an internet free zone so whilst I can, seasons greetings all!

Excuse my lack of cleaning up the image but I've had my photoshop fill this year.  See you in the new one!

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

This is a sneak peak at a tiny limited edition newspaper I'm making to go with my book.  This is the front and last page. The Chompton Gazette features articles by such heavyweights as Scoop Shortly and Gnasher Stevens, and charts local heart throb Justin Beavers charity concert among other things.

Still here

I am still here but when not sat cursing my slowly dying laptop as I frantically photoshop bits of my book into shape I'm cursing frantically in the vicinity of it.  So here's a few irrelevant images.

This was a thank you for my wonderful, crazy talented classmate Jin Youn.

This li'l birdy is my vignette for our graduating class catalogue.  To be fair it looks a lot like me.

Winching

Back in my gran's day winching meant kissing behind the bike sheds.  But for my beavers it means a completely different thing...

                                    No animals were harmed in the making of this image.

To the library!

Quick, post this before my laptop realises it's functioning correctly!  It's not been a happy bunny.  Speaking of which, check out my librarians below desk snacks.  Healthy or what?

Endpapers

Finally started my endpapers today.  What other colour could I make them considering my entire book is orange?  Beauty-1 - Imagination-nil.

The Big Draw

Last weeks big draw was a big success.  Sadly I have no pictures of the kids awesome drawing including the most amazing cheetah ever but here were my doodles from early in the day before we were allowed to draw on walls and things!

My wee bee

My squink (more mythological than zoological)

and for good measure an unfinished beaver.

More beavers this weekend.

It's Tuesday...break out the band!

As ever the busy printing bee, I'm busting out the band cos I can.  Guess who hasn't got his hat printed yet?

                                                               That's me bottom right.

Ooh and tomorrow is The Big Draw on Tour Cambridge stylee.  We'll be in the Museum of Zoology from 10am and The Fitzwilliam Gallery from 2pm.  Be there or be square.

Busy as a beaver

Still ridiculously up to my eyeballs in small orange beavers, and printing like a fiend to get my book done. I should really start wearing a 'can't type; printing' sign around my neck.  But alas I am now typing and have some chompers to appease you all.  Enjoy!

Friday!

My sore little feet and tired eyes are glad that it's finally Friday which means no more overcrowded trains for at least two days.  Hooray!  Enough about me, bring on the beavers!  Tilt head left...now.

I've been busy...honest

Despite my prolonged absence I have been very busy printing and separating  printing and separating until there seems no end in sight but alas I have not been scanning...until today that is and so we have something to look at. A little work in progress.

Finally back in the print rooms

Hurray!  Print rooms are finally open for use and so the beavers are under way.  Very much still works in progress but in progress nonetheless.  Hopefully I'll get my scan quality better some time soon but until then...

                                                           If I could only find my spanner....

Nice day for a swim

                         Lazy as I am, I have not been swimming.  But I know some folks who have...

                                                       They've also been busy elsewhere...

And now they're getting ready for bed.

What's a day without beavers?

Another day, another beaver.