Tresure Island

This week I did a talk at our lovely local school St. George’s. The hall was full of children and visiting teachers from Italy. Later on I talked to one of the Italian teachers and she mentioned the Czech illustrator Vojtěch Kubašta. 

Kubasta was a great illustrator and master of POP UP books. Mentioning his name brought back memories. All my friends and I had at least one of Kubasta’s books at home.

The rest of the week I’ve been sitting behind my table trying to meet a deadline. I’m working on a picture book version of Treasure Island.

 

This kind of illustration is rather different from what I normally do. Apart from a parrot, there are no animals. I don’t normally draw people so much.

I still use printing and collage as I normally do.

I must say, apart from the deadline, I’m really enjoying the work.  I like the challenge. It’s quite inspiring finding how to work more realistically and implant my style and collage onto rather different kind of work.

I started with pop up and I finish with POP UP. Tomorrow I’m taking part in POP UP festival. I’m visiting two schools in Holloway in London. I will be talking to nursery children about books and animals. I’m looking forward to it.