AND SHE SET IT ON THE WATER

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Here's the finished dragon piece I gave to my sister for her thirtieth birthday. In other news, I've completed four of the forty-odd or so drawings I'm working on for this next book commission. Still a little way to go then, eh?

AND SO WAS BORN OUR ISLAND

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15.5x22cm

AND THEN HE BUILDS THEM UP AGAIN

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10.5x16.2cm each

AND SOMEHOW THEY BECAME MORE STURDY

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13x19.5cm each

THE FIRST GERMINATION...

...SO THERE MUST HAVE BEEN LIGHT, SOMEWHERE, OR SO THE THEORIES GO.

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each 18x24.5cm

ONE DIMENSIONAL PORTALS

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10x15.5cm

ONE DIMENSIONAL PORTALS: IN PROGRESS

MORE TALES OF COLLECTING MATTER

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11x18.2cm each

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD PAPER. AND I DREW ON IT.

I found some more mottled endpapers from old books, and since the mountain thing is still going strong this is happening:

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13.5x19.5cm

13x18.5cm

The second image is on paper from a book dating back to 1884. There was a pang of guilt, but the endpapers were coming loose anyway and the rest of the book is intact. It’s a wee astronomy book titled Sun Moon and Stars: A Book for Beginners by A. Giberne, with chapter titles like 'Visitors' and 'Little Servants'.

In other news: The book illustrations I’ve been working on are nearly all done (just the cover and a couple of miscellaneous extras to go, I think - more on that later though), which means I now have to stop pretending I have an actual job and up the job hunting mission. They’re still mythical creatures, those job things...

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SEAS CAME FROM [but here they are anyway]

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each 9.5x19cm

THE ISLES OF ENDPAPER [one]

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9.5x15cm

The islands are often only visible when viewed through a telescope in reverse. This has been known to lead to some confusion.

[framing]