Beautiful, beautiful boy

This paper scans a little oddly, unfortunately.

Life has been busy since I got back from holiday and I still haven’t sorted out my photos, though I did make a start on Sunday by re-sizing them and deleting the really bad ones. That just leaves the bad, moderately bad and passable ones to deal with! Maybe in a few weeks I’ll get round to finishing.

I probably won’t be blogging too much, or Flickring (has Flickring become a verb?) over the next few weeks because I have a lot on - mainly I’m working on something huge but secret (don’t hold your breath!), but I also have some wildlife illustrations to do and a couple of other bits and pieces so personal work is taking a back seat apart from odd drawings in the sketchbook and The Daily Paper project I’ve started uploading to Flickr. I’ll probably post the wildlife illustrations as and when though, as I’m really enjoying doing them.

So who else is getting snow then? I know some areas of the USA are still covered in the white stuff, Canada too, but it is pretty unusual to get it this late in the UK. Not that it’s sticking, but it was a surprise to get up yesterday and the day before to see snow falling again, particularly since the blossom is well on the way and there are buds and shoots everywhere. Also a little sickening - I’ve had enough of winter - I want sunshine and greenness please, winter’s been long enough.

And finally: IFN is ending. I wanted to do a final entry but it’s not going to happen. I’m sad to see it go, though the site has suffered a little lately due to the increased popularity it’s been a great year and some superb illustration work has appeared there - and it will stay there too, as Steve is leaving the site up for posterity - or something.