I’ve moved!

I finally worked out a way to integrate a blog as part of my website – it’s all rather smooth and impressive, aktcherly.  So, now I can be found here….
Please visit and go “ooooh!” and “aaaah!” at the shiny new look.  And this is the last time I change everything around like this.  I promise.  [...]

Frozen Moment

I love this photo – I wish I could look so casual about leaping six feet off the ground. In fact, I wish I could leap 6 feet off the ground in the first place…. The photographer must have been so delighted when they saw how this image had come out, and how [...]

Illustration Friday: “Sugary”

This week, Illustration Friday has the perfect topic to let me segue stylishly into showing some of the sugary sketches I’ve slaved over recently. “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” is in the home stretch – I’ll be submitting all the finals for proofing next week. It’s been a lot of fun [...]

Bookfeast

I was ten flavours of lucky to be invited to Bookfeast yesterday, a book-lovin’ extravaganza with a horde of amazing young book enthusiasts, budding writers and nascent illustrators from schools all over Sydney. It’s a fabulous idea which originated at Fairfield High School and is in it’s (I think) 14th year now. Schools [...]

Mending Lucille is a hit!

Mending Lucille was released for sale at the beginning of this month, and sold its entire first print run in the first 4 days! I think that’s pretty respectable…. I actually have no idea where it’s possible to lay your hands on a copy, though – I should probably find out, because I’ve [...]

The Raucous Royals

My friend Carlyn’s new book is due out in September. It’s “a tell-all book that uncovers the biggest rumors throughout European history, called “The Raucous Royals; The True and Untrue Rumors of Kings and Queens”, (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). Carlyn describes it as “history lesson meets tabloid magazine.” Buy it! Buy it now! [...]

I love humanity

I’m loathe to admit it, but this movie made me cry. Maybe it’s because I’d just been listening to a radio documentary on the My Lai massacre… humans are so full of contradictions, and the world would be a better place if we all got together more often to do silly dances.
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Puppy Poetry

Here’s how my lovely 5 year old described our hyperactive puppy this morning…
A friendly frisk of freedom and fur

Illustration Friday – Punchline

This beetle’s family are worried that he may not make it to the emergency department in time – and let’s face it, they have valid cause for concern, even though the Ambosnail is trying his level best. But will his best be good enough? Tune in next week for another episode of Inverterbrate [...]