We’ve had a fantastic time touring our new production of Tiny Magic Orchestra in schools across Essex, with Charlotte Jolly & an amazing set designed by Sophia Lovell Smith, letting the music transport us to different places around the world & even into space!🌌
🙏Essex Music Hub

It’s been one of those weeks… I think I need some bubbles to take the edge off things.

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is “Romeo & Juliet”, as featured in”Shakespeare’s Stories” retold by Beverly Birch (1997).

“It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine”

Assorted pencils, inks, washes

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31 daily #NewIllustrationoftheDay images have been posted on my timeline since 19 March, pegged to publication, prizes or events. Happily, every single one has been reposted and multiply liked. But this was liked the most: congrats Britta Teckentrup for the #NewIllustrationoftheMonth .

I hope #NewIllustrationoftheDay , which continues tomorrow, demonstrates the standard & variety of artwork in children's books, leads readers to new joys, & inspires illustrators. The response to this post, celebrating 50 yrs in print, also shows that childhood pics are for life.

Happy Birthday Germaine Tailleferre!

#botd
#tailleferre

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is “Romeo & Juliet”, as featured in”Shakespeare’s Stories” retold by Beverly Birch (1997).

“It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine”

Assorted pencils, inks, washes

#60for60

Thank goodness I never did vote for this turnip brained twit.

We were thrilled to bring James Mayhew to the Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 sales conference yesterday to introduce the sales team to his beautiful new book #ASymphonyOfStories publishing this October ! Perfect companion to James’s bestselling #OnceUponATune

Important thread if you care about the arts!

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is from “Boy” (2004)

I had hoped this would become a little series, but alas, it wasn’t to be. But I loved illustrating this, in pastels, and I still think it’s a good book.

Here boy meets a woolly mammoth.

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay Simplified shapes and rich colours reminiscent both of Clarice Cliff and David McKee in a collage conjuring night outdoors by ‘Estrellita Caracol’. From picturebook Firefly Galaxy by Sarah Nelson about catching & releasing fireflies ⁦Barefoot Books⁩

What a treat to hear James Mayhew talk about A Symphony of Stories Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 sales conference - with bonus live painting to music! Otter-Barry Books

Painting live at the Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 sales conference today. A tough crowd ;-) But it was a lovely opportunity to meet those who really help get books out there!

Some pages from my current sketchbook

Something cheery on a cold day!

Not sure how Andersen managed to forget to name author & illustrator, but it’s Rachel Rooney and Zehra Hicks #creditthecreators #picturesmeanbusiness

#BookIllustrationOfTheDay is from 'Ella Bella Ballerina & The Magic Toyshop' inspired by Rossini/Respighi's ballet 'La Boutique Fantasque' (2017). The toymaker is modelled on my very own Toto 😍🥰
The illustrations were created in (real) layers to give a vintage look.

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This will be such a sumptuous book. I’ve seen some of Tamsin Rosewell’s illustrations for this, and they are wonderful.