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the growing boy: May 2011
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011. Sunday, 15 May 2011. Ok, please bear with me here. I know. This blog has been a mass of stop/starts, changing roughs and long periods of total silence. It's basically the book blog equivalent of being hopelessly lost on a country road without a map. Probably in the dark. Near a sinister tree. With an owl. This image is a good example. Here's the rough:. And here's the finished illustration:. Not what I meant at all. I wish I could be more specific. There was something strangely un...
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the growing boy: green thumbs
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011. Teresa Kline aka va.sunshine. 18 May 2011 at 16:39. Great look.hope your day is fabulous! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The growth of my children's book from tiny seedling. give me sun, give me dirt, give me water. Designer, illustrator, procrastinator. View my complete profile. My other sites and sites I like.
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the growing boy: August 2009
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009. That's artistic licence for you, if only real life was as simple. Here I'm demonstrating the convenience and lucky happinstance (is that a word? Of illustrating while making a cup of tea - in a moment of inspirado, that teabag came in handy for added 'mess'! In an exciting garden update: I have one red tomato! I'm so excited, I may even post a picture! Monday, 3 August 2009. After much procrastinating, the first new illustration visual is finished! Next up, the pooing dog.
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the growing boy: February 2011
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011. Oh dear, the neglect of the poor growing boy is now bordering on abuse. I'm like an evil, wicked character from a Brothers Grimm tale, and he's been shut up in a silent, dark cupboard for months! However. maybe it's the fact that spring is round the corner, maybe I just needed to mull on it for a bit, but I am starting to work on the book again, albeit in a slightly different direction (yet again! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Designer, illustrator, procrastinator.
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the growing boy: new gardening tools
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Wednesday, 3 February 2010. Since they arrived last week my new watercolours have lain, unopened, until today. It has taken huge restraint on my part, but I have had to ignore them while I got on with some urgent design work (it has been hell - I could see them out of the corner of my eye the whole time and I would much rather have been messing around with paints, brushes and water than formatting text! The new illustration is still in the early stages, so nothing to show. View my complete profile.
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the growing boy: distracted by a giant turnip
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Saturday, 17 July 2010. Distracted by a giant turnip. You might think I've been neglecting the growing boy a bit of late. and you'd be right. I do have some new roughs which take the story in a slightly different direction, but for now I'm busy beavering away on illustrations for a book of children's dramas. You can see what I've been up to here. 9 November 2010 at 16:34. Thanks for your visiting Veronica, your works so beautiful and fresh. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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the growing boy: [lino]cuttings
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011. Oh dear, the neglect of the poor growing boy is now bordering on abuse. I'm like an evil, wicked character from a Brothers Grimm tale, and he's been shut up in a silent, dark cupboard for months! However. maybe it's the fact that spring is round the corner, maybe I just needed to mull on it for a bit, but I am starting to work on the book again, albeit in a slightly different direction (yet again! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Designer, illustrator, procrastinator.
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the growing boy: July 2010
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Saturday, 17 July 2010. Distracted by a giant turnip. You might think I've been neglecting the growing boy a bit of late. and you'd be right. I do have some new roughs which take the story in a slightly different direction, but for now I'm busy beavering away on illustrations for a book of children's dramas. You can see what I've been up to here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The growth of my children's book from tiny seedling. give me sun, give me dirt, give me water. Designer, illustrator, procrastinator.
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the growing boy: June 2009
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009. My poor little 'growing boy' is being neglected at the moment as I'm still working on the Latvian illustration for the Italian exhibition. It has to be in Italy by 30th June! However, somewhere in the back of my head I'm garnering lots of real life inspirado for the book - I'm growing tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and spring onions (not to mention a pumpkin and a gourd) and all in freezing grey Scotland. and when I'm finished using them for reference, I get to eat them!
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the growing boy: July 2009
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009. Can you dig it? The thumbnails are coming thick and fast, I'm finally working out the exact details of how the beginning gets to the middle and the middle to the end! It seems obvious I know but, while the bare bones of the story have been quite clear to me for some time it hasn't always been so clear how to say everything I want to in each spread. Although the text is quite minimal, the pictures have to convey much more than the words themselves. Tuesday, 28 July 2009. It's been...
