Monthly Archives: October 2013
Three new books
“When I start a new book, I think I am not going to be able to do it again. I can’t draw, I can’t use colour. It’s a rather miserable process.” That’s what John Burningham writes at the end of his brilliant book Behind the Scenes, which I was given this week as a present. […]
AOI Illustration Awards at Somerset House
I went to see the AOI Illustration Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, there are some lovely illustrations and some fascinating ones like Mitch Miller’s dialectogram of a showman’s yard in the East End. Lesley Barnes poster for The Museum of Childhood is beautiful and took me back to images from books I used to take […]
Max by Giovanetti, graduation and my first ever picture book proof.
This was a good week. I was given a great book “Max” by Giovanetii full of wonderful drawings of Max ( a hamster) that I can’t stop looking at. If you are trying to draw the same character in hundreds of different situations you can learn a lot from this book. Giovanetti started out in […]
Suzanne Barton Illustration 