Sketches and ideas which didn't make it to the printed page

I do like to be beside the seaside ...

Interior illustration Cooking for Chaps.

Cooking for Chaps cover art published by Kyle Books.

The fourth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear-tree.

"Between the two seas the sea-birds wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits. For breath to reinspire him from the gates. That open still toward sunrise on the vault. High-domed of morning."

Algernon Charles Swinburne

 

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Old MacDonald

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

J.R.R Tolkein

Singing kids for the Booktrust

Children's Booktrust illustrations, some musical animals.

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

Shakespeare

For the Green Woodpecker every tree is a door.

A little Kingfisher illustration that I am working on.

A pair of Puffins

A little Goldfinch