Maddalena Gerli I

Italian illustrator Maddalena Gerli's illustrations for the book Sottosopra 'Upside Down'. Maddalena divides the picture beautifully with areas of colour, they are bold and simple but with great complex details that keep you interested time after time.

Juxta

This was a strange juxtaposition of pins on pinterest some weeks ago. 
I love it when you find these odd combinations of images that work in different ways from how they were originally intended. But then it is the way that you read, misread or interpret visual information that is really important and I do find that misreading it is often even more creatively productive than correctly interpreting it, because though you see your mistake you see the possibility to.

Valeria Petrone II

Valeria Petrone, again working with layering of character and obscured areas.

Valeria Petrone I

I Love these strange ghostly figures hanging in the antlers of this deer, by Valeria Petrone, I like her unique way of layering of characters.

Cinta Arribas

Spring is coming, so here is a surprise flower from the portfolio of Cinta Arribas.

100 Flowers

I am working on some illustrations for a project about getting flowers (all be it illustrated) back into hospitals. 
This piece is called Chamomile, I am basing my works to the theme of Glasgow's formal herb garden's.  

Bohdan Wróblewski II

All the legs framing this piece by Bohdan Wróblewski made me smile.

Bohdan Wróblewski I

Bohdan Wróblewski continues my latest Polish Illustration series. I really love the composition of these illustrations especially the double page spreads. Bohdan Wróblewski again was a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art he illustrated many books and designed several sets of postage stamps for Polish Post.

Maria Łuszczkiewicz-Jastrzębska I

These illustrations by Maria Łuszczkiewicz-Jastrzębska have a great range of mark making and wonderful humour and characters, I really loved the slightly panicked looking bobbin people. Maria Łuszczkiewicz-Jastrzębska trained in graphics at the Warsaw Accademy and speciallised in dry point printing.

Mirosław Tokarczyk II

Another selection of illustration by Mirosław Tokarczyk. I have really enjoyed exploring various mid centuary polish illustrators this week, mainly found on the wonderful blog and resource Garaż ilustracji książkowych

Mirosław Tokarczyk I

A wonderful snail by Polish illustrator Mirosław Tokarczyk born in 1934. Miroslaw studied graphics in the studio of Jan Marcin Szancer at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He has illustrated over 200 books and won numerous awards for his work, the silver cross of merit in 1988 and the Polish Association of Book Publishers for the most beautiful book of the year in 1987 and 1990.

A Foxy Wolf

I am so happy to have my own website and it has really inspired me to work. Last weekend I finished this piece called 'Grasp the Nettle', a further exploration of the Little Red Riding Hood theme that has gripped my imagination for a number of years now. In this version I wanted to replace the wolf with a fox as we do not currently have wild wolves here, they apparently were hunted to extinction in the 1700's though there are plans to reintroduce them in a controlled area in Scotland. A fox is the closest wild animal that we have and I really wanted to mix that orange and red.

ごちそう . Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi IV

This has to be my favourite ごちそう Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi illustration so far, as it is so like my home with my crazy cat and over friendly and demanding seagull.
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Christine McArthur I

Some of these images are from the appropriately named exhibition 'a month of Sundays'. This is how Christine McArthur's paintings make me feel, like I am having a lovely Sunday afternoon baking and drinking coffee. 
Sadly it is Monday but Christine's paintings help make the weekend last a little longer.
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