chicken out

This is something that's been trying to get out for ages - studies of chickens. Not sure why exactly, there's something about them that I find fascinating. I think they remind of dinosaurs and as I child I knew every dinosaur name...

This is the second illustration for the next issue of Juno magazine. I'm definitely entering a 'folkie' stage.

part of the process

After seeing the work on wishes & heroes blog, I'm inspired to try collage for the next Juno illustration - and I love the process! I'm having so much fun it's a real pain to have to stop tonight. It's to illustrate an article on reducing your carbon footprint, so the whole recycling/reuse aspect of collage feels very appropriate. Here's a detail from the illustration.