What’s been going on…

by thisnorthernboy

I’ve been reasonably quiet on the blog recently, and I’m determined to post more regularly for the rest of the year.

As a bit of a catch-up post, here are some pictures – illustrations and photographs – from the last couple of months.

A little view in to my studio/office set-up at the moment.
Tools of the trade.
Pens and pencils.
The slip case for Taschen’s amazing book on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A fairly typical, and amazing, spread from the 2001 book.
I met a parakeet.
Shadows in the walled garden at Ham House.
Ham House under a brooding sky.
What we do in the shadows (take photographs).
A seventeenth century teapot at Ham House.
Nothing vile about a classic Penguin book cover.
A flavour of the excellent Monotype Recorder.
Sketching some sci-fi scenery for a commission.
Doodling spaceships.
Spaceships.
More spaceships.
I’ve been freelancing here, on Eel Pie Island, for a couple of weeks.
Eel Pie details.
Eel Pie Slipways.
Ship chains.
I was featured in this month’s Artist & Illustrator magazine.
Big sky, big clouds.
Beautiful light in Bushy Park near where I live.
Green Woodpecker (or Yaffle) in flight.
Green Woodpecker.
Red deer in Bushy Park.
Bushy Park.
Sketching landscapes for a commission.
Griff Gristle