a nephew

Elizabeth

pipedream

It seems odd to me that this morning's advent gingerbreadman is smoking.  But what do I know.

amulets

looking back through old sketchbooks, I found some pages of vague not-quite-anything thoughts about stories around amulets and charms.  This was at the time of the Cheltenham Illustration Award 2012, which took the Pitt Rivers collection of these as the starting point for a brief.  i don't know if it's just because they belong to me, but all these bits seem to add up to something closer to the atmosphere i wanted in the work i made at the end of it.

We do dinner every Thursday

A small painting of mine (this one in fact) will be in the Mill Road Winter Fair exhibition on Saturday 1st December. If you're there on the day, scamper along to the drama centre (on the same street as the six bells), i'm sure there'll be plenty of less peculiar pictures there too.

early elf

As far as I remember, this is a portrait of me as a christmas elf, by my sister patricia some years ago now.. Look how jaunty! Was i really that jaunty? What was it i had to jaunt about?

SHOES! evidently.

a rough idea

favourite

I'm making a comic for LOAf Magazine - late for my own deadline!  But that's the benefit of setting them I guess. 

CAKE

This is for a commission.  No questions please. If you can think of a better hat to eat gateau in, let's be having it.

tigrous dromedary

...is it?

LOAf needs you!

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snore

When we go over
to my grandad's
he falls asleep.

While he's asleep
he snores.

When he wakes up
he says,
'Did I snore?
did I snore?
did I snore?'

Everyone says, 'No,
you didn't snore.'

Why do we lie to him?

Michael Rosen.  An ingenious fellow.

beard bard

sketches

no legs... a lot of my people at the moment seem to end up without feet.

Legless but happy (invisibility gaters)

better late than never..

We've been and gone and done the exhibition! And it came together so lovely! It was up at Foyles on Charing Cross Road:

Work by Narisa Togo (on the left) and Rosie Byrne (the baby on the right).

Liza Smith's dolls. well shod and rosie on a shelf,

that's where I'd like to be come 70.

Heidi Deedman makes hilarious books. And I know it won't be long before your nearest library will be pushing them too. We won the Sebastian Walker award together.

Here's me looking shifty in a picture that is meant to

demonstrate beyond a doubt that this is definitely My Work. hmm.

I'm afraid I was rubbish and only took a very few pictures - but you can see more, and find further links to others in the exhibition, on our blog, here.

wheels

Exhibition!

Finally the time for showing & telling has come... Graduating exhibition will be up at FOYLES bookshop on the Charing Cross Road in London from the 8th to the 15th of February.

smile Leone