Nice way to spend an early Saturday evening, watching the clouds turn pink.

Last year, I had some cushions in the window of MeMeMe in Long Street. In a shamelessly commercial move, I put this one in just before Valentine’s Day, thinking it would get snapped up. It did get bought, eventually, but looong after Valentine’s Day. So much for my canny business sense, eh?Have a good weekend, …

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Something fishy for you – my illustration for the Pisces horoscope, to be found in Fair Lady magazine this month. Tech stuff: As per usual, I cut the figure out of sticky vinyl with my knife and also, bizarrely, the tiles in the pool. That took rather a long time. After scanning, colour was added …

How fortunate! Valentine’s Day has coincided with the publication of this heart-themed illustration of mine in the March issue of FairLady magazine. Er, let’s just gloss over the fact that the article is about heart disease and concentrate on the happy coincidence of hearts and the date, ok?Tech details: Black adhesive vinyl (matte this time …

Hooray, I found the ref pic for my horse cushion (see post below) in an old Elle Decoration UK. Can’t find Sisko on the web though.

The February issue of Fair Lady magazine has published my horoscope illustration for Aquarius. What do you mean, you’d never guess that practically everyone I know is pregnant?! I made this by cutting each element separately from black vinyl with my NT cutter, then scanning and colouring in Photoshop.This illustration and a glorious sunset on …

The February issue of Fairlady magazine has an article on why the sex lives of married couples often go kaput, based on Esther Perel’s book, Mating in Captivity. I did the illustrations. This one was published as a full pager: And the next brightened up the DPS that followed. It’s a long article! Both illustrations …

This illustration appears as a DPS in the January issue of Fairlady magazine. The article features eight South African inventors and my brief was to show each person with their invention, combining photos and illustration.I used deep-etched photos of each inventor, drew each invention in Illustrator, and then added in scanned equation scribbles and graph …