Rod Suskin’s 2007 horoscope predictions have been published in Fair Lady, with placeholder illustrations for each star sign done by me this year. Seeing as Fair Lady’s a fashion mag, I decided to go with a theme of accessories. Scroll down to find yours! Above, the full-page intro pic that had to tie in with …

The January Fair Lady is on the shelves with a 2007 Horoscope special, illustrated by me, so I’ve got a bumper crop of illustrations to post. Yay! I’m rushing, with a lunchtime deadline today, so I’ll start with a stand-alone Capricorn and put the rest up tomorrow. As usual, I first made a cut-out in …

For the first Drawing Room show in May last year, I did a series of lonely cowboy paper cutouts called Home on the Range. This is Home on the Range IV. I really like the mood of this – lonely but hopeful. I always wanted to make more of these, and eventually did, with the …

I delivered these birds to Janet yesterday. She seemed to like them. For some reason, this photo is publishing really poorly. Sorry about that. I met Janet when I admired her Orla Kiely handbag (a rare sight down here on the tip of Africa).This is woodgrain vinyl cut to reveal wonderfully shiny scarlet vinyl below.

Off-cuts of the teatowels that were made into cushions, have now been turned into little purses. Waste not, want not – you know. Psst! Baby steps into bigtime retail made early this morning, with 30 teatowels zooting off to a fancy multibranched store for a test run. Let’s see what happens next…

My hurriedly-put-together label/business card for the Somerset Studio Show, currently being made into a rubber stamp.

I have two more illustrations in the December issue of Fairlady magazine. These are for an article on the “sandwich generation” – women who find themselves emotionally and financially squeezed by demands from their aging parents and dependent children. Yikes! This is the main illustration… … and this “sandwich recipe” appeared on a following page. …

The December edition of Fairlady magazine is out, so I can publish my Saggitarius illustration. I put extra care into this one, ‘cos I’m a Sagg myself! Made using cut paper and vinyl, finished in Photoshop and Illustrator.

I’ve been playing around with paint samples for ages. Who can resist those hardware store displays of glorious colour swatches that you can help yourself to? Not me, that’s for sure. The post below this shows Bamboo from the first Drawing Room show, and below this note, I’ve posted two of my other paint sample …