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I’ve been working away on a new picture book called Itch, Scritch Scratch! by the wonderful Elenor Updale. It’s all about Nits!
Here’s a peek at some of the character work I’ve been playing with lately. It’s going to very fun and super silly…
Click to see him bigger.
This is first glimpse of new picture book idea Deep Space Duck I’ve been developing with LaB.
Henry the duck has a curious invite to afternoon tea from the Emperor of Bathstar! So he sets out down a wormhole on a donut!
Click the image to see more detail. Contact my agent Kate Johnson at Advocate Art on 0208 879 1166 to see the full material.
TPS: 260 x 215 mm
Extent: cover +32pp
(c)Sarah Horne 2013
It was exciting to be asked to illustrate Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures last year… and funny animal poetry is always a big tick for me!
The book published last year in hardback and earlier this year in paperback. This week I’m off to Tunbridge Wells to see Michaela’s new show based on the book! It’ll be interesting to see how it all looks on stage…
Michaela’s tour dates are here and you can buy a copy of the book here.
Here’s a snapshot of some of the work that has been on my drawing board the last few months.
(Click the images to see bigger)
The Sesame Seade Mysteries by Clementine Beauvais. Published by Hodder Childrens’ (2nd May, 2013)
Very exciting to be asked to illustrate this wonderfully witty series about a Super Sleuth. The first book in the series publishes on May 2nd, 2013. We will celebrating with a launch at Heffers in Cambridge. You can Pre-order a Sesame here or purchase from your finest indie bookshop on the day, should the mood take you!
Two Bad Grans By Geraldine Durrant Published by Piccadilly Press. (Oct 2013)
It was my pleasure to work on this picture book earlier this year. As the title states it’s about some very badly behaved old ladies, who have to buck up their ideas once they suddenly become Grannies!
Two Bad Grans publishes in October this year.
Lettering for covers: Dead Or Alive and My Best Friend and Other Enemies (Egmont/Nosy Crow)
I am asked more and more these days, to supply hand drawn/ illustrated type for cover work, to which my answer is always a massive, big fat “Yes”.
Vulgar The Viking series by Odin Redbeard. Published by Nosy Crow
This has been a real joy to work on. The gags are excellent and five books down, Vulgar text is still wonderfully fresh. We are all rather bereft at the moment, as Vulgar’s adventures come to a halt after book 6. What a fantastic project.
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Thanks for reading!
Great excitement here when I received an advanced copy of my new pop up book Monster House last week.
I am wearing one huge big grin over this book, what a project! Thank you team S&S and Maggie Bateson.
Here’s a couple of photos- the book publishes on the 25th October and you can pre-order a Monster here if you do so wish!
Fizzlebert Stump (The boy who wan away from the circus and joined the library) by A.F. Harrold
Client: Bloomsbury
Thought it would be nice to show some sketches that never normally see the light of day- (and you can see why!)
These are my scruffy thumbnails for the latest book in the Vulgar the Viking series for Nosy Crow.
Only readable by me and soon to be translated to ink and wash.
Thumbs are kind of an illustrators’ shorthand.
I say no more.
After eight whole years in Wapping, I have now moved to new pastures in Forest Hill. The place is called Whirled Art Studios and it is eight minutes from my house. There is something to be said for living very close to your workplace, but not in it. I’m experiencing the weird phenomena they called spare time!
There is also the added luxury of rolling up the hill home at lunchtime.
Here’s a few pics of the new place… I haven’t seen any badgers yet, think they all must have met their doom in the kitchen?
The new address is:
Whirled Art Studios, Unit 1, 118 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3EP.
After over a year of thinking monsters with the good people at S&S… last month, finally, I finished the artwork on a pop up book called Monster House.
Here’s a pic of some of the detail from the dummy and a couple of the press-out pieces. The rest is a secret until the Autumn when it is published. But, you can pre-order here if you do so wish!
