Apricot Cat Artist's Book

I've finished the line work for the Apricot Cat artist's book! Yay! :) On the left is a (quite bad, sorry!) photo of what it looks like so far. You can see more of it on my flickr, and there you can see how the idea developed to some extent too. I plan on colouring this in watercolour and maybe pencils, and also maybe photoshopping it too before I make it into a book. Hopefully the colour should be done in the next week or so, so I'll keep you updated with that :)

I'm face painting on Sunday at a craft fair- somewhere near Nottingham I think- so hopefully I'll be able to take some photos without looking too inappropriate! Look out for those pics :)

Is anyone going to the 4th Manchester Artist's Book Fair? I know it's a bit early to be planning really, but for those of you who are interested, the website is here. Take a look, artists books are mint I promise! I've gotten well into them lately :)

Anyway I'm off, party to arrange for tonight! Wish me luck and keep updated :)

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Trip to Page 45

Those of you who know Nottingham should know of Page 45 (www.page45.com), a WICKED comic book shop which is quite central, and where the staff are really friendly, happy to help, and actually know about what they're selling. Well we went today and I had to treat myself... I got 2 artists books.

One is 'Trains are... Mint 5' by Oliver East. www.rollingstockpress.co.uk

It's really good- not read it all yet but it's basically a journey that he's made and what has happened on the way, with lots of colour illustrations. I picked it because I liked the way the illustrations look full of life- there's a lovely imperfection about them which I really like in artwork. The colours are really nice too. Page 45 are selling this for £4.99 at the moment so it's an absolute bargain- it's A5 with quite a lot of pages, all in colour.

The other book is a 2-in-1 comic (you flip it over to read the other story), 'Peanut Butter and Marshmallows/ Cat Hearts' by Lizz Lunney. www.lizzlizz.com

The illustrations in that one are really cool and above all the stories made me laugh :) I like the way she's coloured it too- there's only one colour and white for each story. Also, all the stories are about animals which I think will help give me ideas for 'Apricot Cat' and 'Animools'. Page 45 sold this one for only £2 so I recommend that one too if you're a bit short of money like me and you'd like something to make you laugh!

I spent aaaaaages in there trying to decide because they've got this whole massive shelf now dedicated to artist's books which I've not seen before- although I probably haven't been in for over a year because of being in Birmingham. Anyway you should go and look it's really good, and because it's an independent shop I don't mind them having my money :)