To borrow unashamedly the format of my friend and fellow illustrator Jill Calder (jillcalder.com), whose work you need to feast your eyes on if you haven't already, here's a list of excuses for the one month radio silence! Hot damn, it's been a busy month, and blogging's taken a back seat to these little fellas:- 5 book covers plus a cover re-design
- a dps for Renault F1 team
- a Christmas catalogue for an American client (deck the halls ALREADY!)
- a teatowel design
- planning our ground floor studio extension - no doubt more on that later - with a real live architect!
- painting the house front and back, which involves covering the previous owner's aesthetically-challenged render (it has taken weeks, many brushes, scaffold hire and a large chunk of our patience)
- entering the Images, Society Of Illustrators LA and Altpick competitions
- designing new 6x9 postcards with new photos by Anthony Saint James *future blog*
- making the next tattoos (2 in a series)
- mailing out 750 mini-promo items
- working out the Hallowe'en and Christmas projects
- making a brand new folio for Matthew, super-charged NY Agent, for his trip to San Fran
- seeing the Klimt exhibition at the Tate Liverpool
- learning to roller skate again on proper grown-up ones, and falling over
- buying proper made-in-the-UK running shoes
- phew...
- making vegan egg custards - and OMG, yummy:
- chocolate cake with mint chocolate ganache.
I hope you can let me off.