slugs and snails

My first post of 2010, so happy new year! I'm doing some speculative greetings card work, while trying to remain true to my own style and not being too 'cutsy'. Not easy... I'm also being a bit sneaky and using these to work on a style for the growing boy...

[edit: maybe try one with added mischief!]

rain, rain, go away....

Thought you might like to see how my home town looked at midnight last night... We had a month's rain in a few hours, causing both rivers to burst their banks and invade the town centre (that is actually one of the main roads, not a river!). This has never happened before in living memory, perhaps we should be worried and maybe now it's time for our great leaders to take climate change a bit more seriously? I wish I could say I had faith in them to act! Luckily, for me at least, I live up the hill...

New roughs over on the Growing Boy.

green shoots

The Growing Boy germinates at last...

here comes the sun

The lovely summer issue of Juno with my illustrations has arrived, as usual packed full of interesting stuff and, this time, my bio - not too embarrassing, although I wish I had the time to beaver away on my books! Instead the Growing Boy is languishing untouched while I finish the leaflet for the Woodend Music Society....