Christian Aid book sale 2013

Quick & Easy Japanese Cooking 50p
First Poems by Brenda Meredith Seymour £1
First Hymns by Brenda Meredith Seymour 50p
First Prayers by Brenda Meredith Seymour 50p
First Nursery Rhymes by Brenda Meredith Seymour £1
The Gold of Friendship by Roger Schlesinger 10p
Christmas is a Time of Giving by Joan Walsh Anglund 30p
Dancing Rhymes (Ladybird) 40p
The Book of Tofu by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi 50p
5 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi £1
In and Out of the Garden by Sasa Midda £2
Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen £1
Bansesu no Kurisumasu by Jan Mogensen £1
The Usborne First Thousand Words in Japanese £1
Wooden brooch £1

I spent a lot less than usual this year at the booksale, but I still came home with a good selection of books. The First Prayers, Hymns etc books have lovely illustrations. The Moosewood Cookbook has handwritten recipes with little illustrations. The First Thousand Words in Japanese book was a lucky find - I am studying this as a course on Memrise! And Bansesu no Kurisumasu is a children's book in Japanese, so it will be good for some hiragana practice. I really like the wooden brooch, it has a retro look and also looks almost bird-like! The sale was slightly less busy than usual, probably because the weather was so miserable.

Previous book sales:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007

Baby Bear book

I wrote and illustrated this little book for my new nephew.

The initial drawings didn't take nearly as long as I'd expected - I had already scribbled down some ideas, so it just took one afternoon to draw all of them at the required size.

After that I created the illustrations from layers of card. These were the most 3-dimensional illustrations I've done, and they were perched on every surface in my craft room! I had to work out some new techniques to make the layers stand out from each other, and to take photos of the illustrations without shadows being cast in the wrong places.

For the first few weekends that I worked on them, I was finishing about two illustrations a day. Then the pace slowed down a bit, and the final illustration was put together at midnight the day after my nephew was born!

More photos on Flickr.