Bologna Children's Book Fair

http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/bcbf09_internal1.asp?m=107&l=2&a=&ma=366&c=4113&p=107Rules

New piece

As i enjoy spamming this blog with work, here is a new page for the picture book project which if all's well is due for completion just shy of my 40th birthday. any comments would be greatly appreciated. hope everyone is having a nice summer :)

winners of waterstones comp

hey they announced the winners. i thought it was worth a mention becuase the work is wonderful!
its worth a look at. and i learnt quite alot from looking at it.
my fave has to be alexis patterson.

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=1789

New Page

This is the next page for the Piano and the Boy story which I am working on towards entering for next year. Took me a while to work out how to portray something at night time because everything is normally in daylight. There is a outerglow on the window as well to show the light emanating out but also to show as if something magical is coming from the room, lighting up the night.

I've changed the tint to a more of a brick look and muted the light, the text also has a small shadow because it didnt stand out on its own.