Welcome to my blog! Here you'll find many samples of my finished art, conceptual work, unpublished material, and other miscellaneous jobs. You can find a complete list of my published books at this link.

I currently have signed copies of THE GREAT MONTEFIACO, WHACKO THE CHOOK, THE PUMPKIN EATER FROM PONDICHERRY, and THE SHIKKER COLA COWS available for purchase. For more info, please contact me at whackothechook@internode.on.net


Wednesday, July 7, 2010

CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS

One of the perks of doing books for children, is occasionally I receive endearing hand-written letters from young readers, and if I'm really lucky they include a very cool picture for me to keep! I absolutely love children's art, and I'm always thrilled to receive it! I keep the following on my studio wall where they continue to make me smile...
The following looks like something I was probably drawing at his age. I was obsessed with dragons, dinosaurs, and all big hulking monsters, still am really...

The following drawings of WHACKO THE CHOOK belong to Mark Svendsen, they were given to him by a primary school class he taught. The following pictures are scans of print-outs of jpegs of scans, so the quality is poor. But, the humour is definitely not lost, these are just brilliant...
I may delve further into my archive of children's drawings for future posts, including some of my own drawings from very early on, I have them hidden away somewhere...

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