7 blue birds

About a week ago I finished the spread for the colour blue. Blue birds, a symbol of hope from the ancient times!
When I visited the London Book Fair 2011 just a couple of days ago and showed my portfolio around, this was one of the pieces that stood out. It's one of my favourite too.

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Katie and the Kite

With all the sun these days what better than to take out the ol' kite?
I decided to revisit Katie and the Kite, since I'll be printing a portfolio soon. I didn't change anything drastically, but with a fresh eye I saw some things which I wanted to improve. I generally desaturated some parts and brightened up some colours too. I find it "breathes" a lot better now. The illustrations always come out considerably darker when you print them too, so that was also a concern.

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the fat bee

So I'm working on a storyboard for the "Just an Old Boot?!" tale, which is going great by the way, thanks for asking, but I felt like having a little brake from it, so I started playing with my digi-brushes and I came out with this little piece, the fat bee!

that was one long sentence!

Just an Old Boot?!

So this is the first image for a story I'll start working on.

It should be a fun, short adventure of a boot who thinks it's an animal!

In vain the animals around the lake, where the boot has been dumped, try to convince it otherwise.

Maybe a boot is an animal...?

I'll keep you posted!

5 pink toes

I was stuck with what to use for the colour pink, which fell on the number 5, until a friend suggested I use 5 pink toes! Brilliant idea. I wanted to make the toes look like little balloons, round and silly looking, to make it fun.

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1 white snowman

So here is the third spread I complete for my Book of Colours and it's for white.
Technically white is not a colour, but no need to be pedantic with the little ones!
Since white is what you get when you mix all the colours, I decided to hint to this by creating a background with all the colours together. Also, I really like how the font has turned out and the colour-texture on the text.
These are two pages of a spread, the illustration folds in the middle, that's why there is a gap between the snowman and the text.

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2 yellow lemons

The second illustration I complete for the Book of Colours and it's for the colour yellow. These lemons were the very first thing I illustrated in this style, I still love their vividness and mixture of colour. I use the sliced one for my promotional material often (as you can see on the heading of this Blog).

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Christmas Cactus

My Christmas cactus has flowers once more, great news! Must be the amazing weather :)

8 green leaves

From the book of colours, I have finished working on the first spread for the colour green.
This is great news as I've decided on the font I'll be using (free style organic) and have a layout style I'll be following for the rest of the spreads. The first one is the hardest!
More colours to come soon!

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Promotional Material

My new business cards have arrived and so have the promotional postcards!
Can't wait to start giving them away now :)