Spring is slow. It is kind of here-but-not really. I too feel as if I've been here-but-not-really. No news on the Numptys, I suspect that my submission hasn't been looked at yet, or is about to come home, rejected and folded in two by our Posty. We have signed up to the cottage for another 6 months - the Asda in Devon isn't due to be up now until September, although frankly at the moment it'll feel like a miracle if we pull ourselves out of our collective gloom and get our arses down there. In an attempt to throw off this fug of grey murk, I sent the cat story out to Egmont. It's a start.
Reasons to be cheerful - I have been given permission to put the 'girly giftbook' illustrations up on my site - they are rather unlike my private work, for a start, they are very small, and they are spot illustrations, which I've never really done before. Nice not to have to worry about the background. So a few of my favourites, from (drum roll if you please) 'The Princess's Handbook' , illustrated by Sophie Allsop, Fran Evans, Georgina Mcbain - and myself, to be published by Templar Publishing in autumn 2006. (To see all of my pieces, click here).
Reasons to be cheerful - I have been given permission to put the 'girly giftbook' illustrations up on my site - they are rather unlike my private work, for a start, they are very small, and they are spot illustrations, which I've never really done before. Nice not to have to worry about the background. So a few of my favourites, from (drum roll if you please) 'The Princess's Handbook' , illustrated by Sophie Allsop, Fran Evans, Georgina Mcbain - and myself, to be published by Templar Publishing in autumn 2006. (To see all of my pieces, click here).
Tomorrow will be better. I will bake a cake, dye the grey out of my hair, finish all the sketches for 'Woodland creatures', maybe start a painting all of my very own and generally try to be the person I aspire to be when I'm being the person I don't want to be but can't help being sometimes. If that makes any sense...