Island Bound – Kiskadee
Island Bound – internal illustration (Kiskadee)
Using a woodgrain texture, this is one of 16 little illustrations used in Island Bound, a novel for pre-teens about emotional displacement.
Island Bound – Kiskadee
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Brain Storms! – With tears in my eyes
Brain Storms!
This illustration was used for a section in the book that dealt with grief for kids called ‘With tears in my eyes’.
Brain Storms! – Custard and Fred
Brain Storms!
Here we have Custard and Fred, the singing, dancing pencil and screwdriver.
A job where fun was had in spades creating these quirky illustrations using indian ink and a brush, and a myriad of textures.
The Crystal Crescent
The Crystal Crescent
A sci-fi novel for pre-teens. This cover features my first crack at outer space!
The future looks grim, the ozone layer has been destroyed and earth is at risk. Raki and Tando are on a mission to find a source of the rare substance telotion, which when heated creates masses of ozone.
Cover and text design + 10 full page b/w illustrations + scattered small illustrations
My Summer of the Lions
My Summer of the Lions
The first book I designed for Pearsons NZ. This novel for pre/early teens deals with some heavy stuff – the loss of his mother and an emotionally absent dad lead Martin into the wrong company, until he discovers friendship in the unlikely form of a pair of ageing zoo lions. The cover needed to look dark and edgy, but tinged with hope.
Cover + text design + 16 internal b/w illustrations
The Ninth Dragon
This cover was great fun to design, aided by frills such as gold foil and embossing. The dragon was drawn freehand, then coloured. Layered offsets were made of it in a couple of colours to give it a feel of old print. I also finally found the perfect use for a font I have long loved: Chinese Rocks.
A historical novel which begins at an archaeological dig in China where Zach’s mum has landed a job at a nearby museum. Zach joins her there most reluctantly for the holidays, but once he has found a mysterious carved jade dragon at the dig, life turns very strange indeed.
Cover and text design + ten full page b/w illustrations + scattered small llustrations
My first 350 words
My First 350 Words
A fun, colourful book for preschoolers with beautiful large illustrations for 350 first words.
Cover and internal design
Memory Bones
Memory Bones
This historical novel for early teens focuses on the early life of Mary Anning (thought to be the inspiration for the tongue-twister ‘she sells sea shells by the sea shore’). Mary scours the coastline and cliffs near Dorset in search of fossils that she can sell to feed her impoverished family. She makes a historically significant discovery …
This cover features an aged linen texture and muted tones to enhance the themes of poverty and loneliness. The skeleton of the ichthyosaur (fish-lizard) is embossed.
Cover and text design + 13 monotone watercolour illustrations + scattered small illustrations
Island Bound
Island Bound
This story for early teens is based in Bermuda, so the design adopted a laid-back wood-grain-with-peeling-paint look.
A story of displacement and coming to terms with it, with a mystery at the centre.
Cover design and illustration + 16 b/w internal illustrations
The Intruder
The Intruder
A futuristic tale for pre-teens. Luca is the sole occupant of Moon Base, where a secret mineral has been found to produce bumper crops of food for Earth, grown under giant domes. Luca is there day in, day out, supervising the computerised supply chain. But then Luca’s lonely world is disrupted by an unknown intruder. The question is, friend or foe?
Cover design and illustration, plus 16 black and white collage chapter illustrations
Those blue tendrils on the cover are foil – cool!