Frances McKay Illustration

Mission: Explore John Muir

Tom Morgan-Jones shares with us a recent project he has been working on.

The bumper book of silly jokes

Jane Eccles has been a very busy lady lately! Here she shares with us a bumper batch of silly sketches.

Illustration, the finest occupation

 

A beautiful animated poem by our very own Temujin Doran, which is getting lots of attention online after receiving a Vimeo staff pick and a nice plug from the good people ar Scamp.ie

Spy Dog: brainwashed!

 

James De La Rue has some canine espionage excitement to share with us.

Small Change for Stuart

Last February I finished illustrating a book by author Lissa Evans called Small Change for Stuart. I drew on A4 drawing paper, a pad of which I bought from Trago Mills (a department shop in Falmouth) about 4 years ago. It was going slightly yellow, and I spilt Ribena on it a while back. I used a pen also bought from the same shop – I stockpiled, as they were going really cheap at the time.

?Nichts fuer Weicheier?.

In September my latest book (cover) is going to be released. This is my first book cover for 10-year-old boys. When Maya Geis, my editor from Oetinger Publishing House called me on the phone I was very surprised. She had only seen my illustrations for small children and my newspaper illustrations. But she said she thought I would do a good job on this bookcover, so I felt encouraged to do my best on it.

The Pink Place

I have drawn two designs for a card which I'm doing for The Pink Place in Basingstoke. This is a charity which offers free support,information and complementary therapies to people who have or have had breast cancer in this area & is supported by the breast unit at Basingstoke and North Hampshire hospital http://www.thepinkplace.org.uk/

Donough and The World of Norm

Who remembers what it was like to be a young lad? Well maybe if you are of the Lady persuasion it might be a stretch to do so, but if you are a man/boy like me(and we are many) it can all seem far far too close to recall. Someone else who seems to have a perfect insight into the world of the pre-teen boy is the writer, comedian, actor and all round creative type Jonathan Meres.