March desktop calendar

March is my first favourite month of the year, there's nothing worse than January and February I think! Hope you enjoy this wallpaper, it's free for you to download and use as a desktop calendar! The one for April will be coming at the end of March. So do come back! :o)
See the whole set here.

Please note that these calendars (as everything else on here) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

New Editorial Work - Nursery Rhymes

I illustrated a few nursery rhymes for a Scholastic publication late last year, the kids are acting out the rhymes with props. It was a fast turnover but one of these jobs where the characters and situations they're in just flow and work immediately, so I ended up using parts of the last one as a Christmas card last year...looking at it now it could also be an Easter card. For non-English readers: a hot cross bun is a sweet, yeasty, sticky, spicy bun that people eat in Britain and in South Africa etc. on and before Easter! I only ever had one so far during a heatwave in Johannesburg...the bun itself wasn't hot, that's what I always thought that they would have to go into the oven to turn into something else...they look a bit half-baked but I guess that's the yeast.

Yeehaw Wyoming!

The latest addition to my postcard set.

Illustration Friday - Adrift

the oil pastel fun continues...Playing around is good...for me it only works after 1am though...

oil pastel fun

I found some old Sennelier oil pastels which melt like butter and I liked the colour selection that I had picked years ago and started scribbling...it's quite relaxing and it feels easier on my eyes than computer work at the moment. I still haven't decided on what's my favourite traditional medium but maybe there's no need to do just one and throw away the other? I think I did the drawings for my 1st book, Louis+Bobo, mainly in oil pastel with pencil outlines, I like the immediacy of it, it's quick without much fuzzing around.

Postcard from Oregon

...more from the Postcard series...
This one is available as a print at Society 6, where it's part of the Portland Series,
there's a store of all the prints here and there will be a group exhibition in the actual city of Portland, OR, on March 6. I won't be there unfortunately.

Coming soon...Ooh La La Polka Dot Boots!

A small preview of my advance copy, here you can see one of the flaps and how they work...
It's coming out in March.