Dragon Dummy

I made this full sized colour pencil dummy so Oliver and our editor at ABC Books, Belinda Bolliger, could get a better idea of what this story is about. Oliver said it helped, Belinda read it to her little boy who didn't get it and I realised my initial idea was not quite there anymore.

Back to the old drawing board

I'll do another and rework the words and a few of the images and then see how it hangs together. I guess it's all part of the challenge of making any work. If it were easy more people would attempt it.

Whale

A New Sky

Bobby didn't like the "sky with nude" painting I did 20 years ago and which I thought looked good in my autumnal coloured lounge room. I thought it kind of pulled the room together like the rug in The Big Lebowski. When I removed it the room fell apart.

Bobby had her reasons and those are for another blog another time. She became upset every time I put it back on the wall. I felt confident that she might grow to love it as I did or at least understand the need for blue in a mostly timber and beige room.

So with this new canvas I have achieved a win-win situation. Obama would approve. I painted another sky, sans nude. Ta da