A new AO sized print of a private commission before it is eased into its cardboard tube, taken to the post office and sent 3500 miles to its destination.
But I can confirm the day, date and time.
Seen in a Spirax notebook c.2018.
Papier mache robin (Erithacus rubecula papyrus), London.
I recently illustrated the third book of the Premier League Writing Stars series of poetry anthologies. The third book, Beautiful Ambition, takes its name from a poem by Karl Nova. The poetry competition for primary schools has the winners’ poems published together with poems from some football players and other well known names in paperback book form. This year, the theme of the competition is ‘Ambition’. You can have a glimpse of the illustrations below.
I hope the authors have a chance to celebrate having their poems published soon.
I made a couple of short films for Hachette about Lauren Child’s new book The Goody. Lauren was interviewed by Sally Williams and they discuss the book’s background and inspiration, illustration techniques and a bit about changing style and what that can mean to an illustrator. It’s a beautiful book, dealing with the themes of labels and reputation. I think it should be labelled with a shiny metallic sticker of some kind.
The music is by Soren Munk.
You can see the other process films I made with Lauren here.
“He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame.” – E.B. White/The Letters of E.B. White.
Not yawning, screaming. Tom the cat.
Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard, illustrated by Lauren Child, came out this week published by Oxford University Press.
I’ve made a series of short films about Lauren’s working process and why she is fascinated by Pippi and Lindgren’s books. The third film features yours truly and we discuss the approach to designing the book, particularly the planning and working with the typography. Lauren’s ideas for making her illustrations integrate with the type and decisions on what and what not to include in a long-form book are discussed.
And you get to see inside the studio where she does all this stuff.
Available at all good bookstores.
