Solly Finds out What's Next Door ...

Solly Goes to the Modern Art Gallery

Solly is Sleeping - Ssssh!

Solly and the Nail - Ouch!

Solly and the Dead Bone

Gently, gently catchee birdie

Lloyd gets the sausages

Spiritual Solly

Layout of children's book

Right - gearing into action this morning, post-class, for my book layout for the Solly children's book. I'm going to do 11 - 12 spreads, a front and back page. It's going to be much more simple than I'd originally thought, and set in the garden without the walk up the hill to the horses. A 32 page book.

Children's Illustration with Dee Shulman

Here's another quick sketch from my first attempt at a children's illustration book. These are rough when I have it mapped out I may try and do it with paint or differently anyway. Will probably do one sketch version of a book and one finished version.

Children's Illustration with Dee Shulman

I've started doing a children's illustration course with Dee Shulman on a Friday evening. There's lots of animators and artists and people who work with children on the course. It's really great.
I think she's nice and she has lots of energy I really like her. She's got a great smile.
Her work is nice too.
I'm starting by drawing some ideas about Solly the dog.
Here's my first drawing. I'm doing a series of drawings taken from Solly's everyday life first, then I might see about adapting his character to a narrative a bit later.

First coffee and planting more veg. The ground is dry.

Solly in the garden - painting

Matt walks the dog in Joyden's Wood

Well, it's the bit of Dartford Heath just by Joydens Wood.

Autobiographical sketches 65 - dog tries to get ducks

Autobiographical sketches 32 - Matt's duck fence, or Solly fence

Autobiographical sketches 25 - making stuff

Autobiographical sketches 19 - the summer of love

Autobiographical sketches 18 - the summer of love

Dartford Heath

Cutting a wooden disc and sewing a coat

I've been helping Matt take his new coat in. It's Aquascutum.

He's cut me a little plywood disc to carve and print.

It's been a DIY day.

Also Richard Tyrone Jones has been staying with me. He's a very welcome house guest. He's out walking Solly at the moment and is posting a letter. He's keeping himself busy.

We have been trying to help him learn to use computer music software. But we don't really know ourselves.

Now Matt and I are listening to the Hammond organ, as recorded on Simon King's Tandberg tape machine. It's a funny old machine, says Matt. He's right. How the motor whirrs.