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After many months of hard work, I am delighted to be able to show you the finished version of "Beastly Boring Burghley!", an exciting new children's guide book for Burghley House near Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Burghley has a reputation for educational excellence (winning the prestigious Sanford Education Award in 2010) and offer a great range of activities for school parties. However they also wanted to improve their offering for children visiting as part of family groups.

The new "Beastly Boring Burghley" children's guide book is a 20 page book which takes children on a journey around the house, with things to spot and activities for each room.

The rooms are covered in the same order as in the adult guide book meaning that hopefully children will be entertained for long enough to allow their parents to have a good around themselves!

The book is good quality, and makes a perfect souvenir to take home and keep. It is much more than just an activity book and contains lots of historical information about life at Burghley, meaning you can return to it time and time again.

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I'm very pleased to be able to unveil this new artwork for the recently reopened Cutty Sark in Greenwich.

I was commissioned to create an illustration for the new souvenir guide book which would complement the bolder and more contemporary feel of the new guide book. The illustration needed to have a broad enough appeal for the general visitor, but also be technically detailed enough to be of interest to the enthusiast.

You can read more about Cutty Sark, the fire which nearly destroyed her, and the painstaking restoration process which has restored her to her former glory here. Even better, you can visit and see for yourself!]]> http://www.emillustration.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry120520-192727




It was great to meet so many nice people at this year's Museums & Heritage Show and it was once again a great event with a really friendly feel. I had a lot of very interesting conversations about potential projects, educational initiatives and new ideas and it seems that plenty of museums and heritage attractions are really trying to improve their offering for younger visitors. I hope that some of those conversations will in time turn into exciting new projects.

I have already booked my stand for Museums & Heritage 2013 which will be held at London Olympia, so I hope to see you there!

(I got my rollable PVC display graphics printed by G&L Services, a local Sheffield printing company and I couldn't have been happier with the result! Extremely high quality, and a great personal service as always. And no, I didn't get a discount for writing this, I just think they do a brilliant job!)]]> http://www.emillustration.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry120320-095319



Here's a project I've recently completed for the Chiltern Open Air Museum.

The brief was to design an illustrated timeline showing the buildings at the museum, as well as some historical events.

The pictures of the buildings will be on magnets, and visiting children will have to see if they can find where the builds belong on the timeline.

I also designed a small information card which will go in their children's activity packs. The museum had the idea of a 'time traveller' theme, and wanted both the timeline and info card to have a nostalgic, 1940s feel to them.]]> http://www.emillustration.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry111103-121036

Here are a couple of pictures of the final Bolton Castle Children's Guide. It's a 16 page booklet, full colour, and every page is packed full of information, activities and eye catching colourful illustrations.



The booklets were beautifully printed by Adam Swift at Print Revolution and he's done a fantastic job. If you like the look of these then I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.

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I've been working on a very enjoyable project for CAFOD to illustrate a series of 20 Children's liturgy colouring sheets which can be downloaded from CAFOD's website for use by church and school groups.

The colouring sheet illustrations link into the theme of the liturgy each week and vary from biblical scenes to pictures showing CAFOD's work.

Here are three of the colouring sheets, I will be putting the rest on my website.

You can visit the CAFOD website and download the colouring sheets here.

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I made some random splashes of ink on lots of sheets of paper and waited for them to dry. Then I looked at the splodges to see if I could find any inspiration in them! As I looked at the seemingly random blobs, figures and animals started to loom out of the page - and here are some of the results!


A charming duck!

A glamorous, slightly 1920s looking woman

Woman with fur hat and suitcase walking

A ram

This would be a great activity to try if you want to do something quick and sketchy and to shake things up a bit. It would also be a good activity to do with children or with adults who are new to drawing/lack confidence.

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I'm pleased to announce that the children's guide book I have been working on for Bolton Castle in North Yorkshire is now finished and on sale at Bolton Castle!

Bolton Castle already has a good range of children's activities and trails on offer, but wanted to develop these further and offer a children's 'Guide Book' full of facts and puzzles for younger visitors to complete as they explore the Castle and then take home with them at the end of the day.

The Children's Guide is a 16 page book with fun facts, questions and puzzles relating to different areas of the Castle. It is colourful and fully illustrated throughout.

The book introduces Charlie the Chough who is your guide around the Castle. Charlie is inspired by the Chough on the Bolton Castle Coat of Arms.





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This is an illustration I recently completed for an article in Wiltshire Life Magazine. The article tells the story of the 'Malefactors of Gore Cross' (a group of highwaymen) and how they were apprehended.]]> http://www.emillustration.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry110616-175125

I've just finished a really fun project working with the very nice people at White Fox on this map for a family trail around the Drift Park in Rhyl.

The map needed to be fun but also functional, as families visiting the Drift Park will use it to find the different things to spot along the trail, and to navigate their way around the Drift Park itself.

The Leaflet is Copyright Denbighshire County Council 2011 and reproduced with their kind permission.

CLICK HERE TO SEE A NICE BIG VERSION OF THE MAP ILLUSTRATION IN A NEW WINDOW
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