Another year is rapidly spinning out and I find myself on the edge of another great event in our household. 'Pumpkin' is due in the next couple of weeks and we are readying ourselves for the excitement and inevitable sleep deprivation that new little people bring into your life.
On top of that I have been tapping away at Pearl very occasionally, not because I don't love her still, I do, but I have been working on a picture book for children. It is thirty pages of four line rhyming stanzas (AABB) which I plan, and have begun, to illustrate with watercolours and coloured pencil. (Okay, I've started to illustrate in pencil sketches - I'm a busy Domestic Godling dontcha know?).
The pictures will hopefully turn out a bit like the work of Charles Fuge ( http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Authors_and_Illustrators/Charles-Fuge ). He is one of my very favourite illustrators for children and if I can come up with images even half as good as his 'I Know a Rhino' or in 'Sometimes I like to Curl Up in a Ball' (written by Vicki Churchill), then I'll be stoked. Most of the story is set in the Australian bush, just like the hill up behind our house coincidentally, so I hope to capture a little bit of its magic. I also love to paint in watercolours so hopefully I can come up with something that is simple enough, yet tells the story I need it to.
I quite like the story, and some of the rhyme is actually okay. I also get to draw a map, I love maps. Who doesn't love a map? And as it is drawn by a young boy it can look a bit dodgy and still authentic. :)
I spent all day on the mower today too, love living in the sub-tropics where the grass grows before your eyes. Tomorrow I finish cleaning up the spider-webs on the verandah and bleach the walls and mouldy drains. House Hubby's work is never done. Really, there is always something to keep me busy. Wouldn't have it any other way. Gotta go, satellite dropping out... again :P
