Beetles

The dummy of this book is currently being presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair.  I’m looking forward to hearing the feedback.

The book is almost finished but one of the most challenging illustrations I’ve kept to the end. It’s a picture of beetles. Here is the very first sketch for the picture.I talked to Nicola about the text and decided that in this case the picture itself should say the story. Here is the work in progress. I printed and painted each of the beetles separately. I spent lots of time looking at the variety, sizes and mainly the colours of beetles. The colours are just unbelievable. I wouldn’t have been able to make it up!I also looked at my little sketchbooks for more beetles and sure enough I found a couple.Here is a great stag beetle who just landed on a farmer’s head.A gardener attacked by a giant ladybird.This is Mr. Kafka just a moment before he wrote “Metamorphoses”.Two wrestling beetlesand one rather big beetle on the table.

My new book “Blue Penguin” is going to be published on the 5th November! For that reason my next blog is going to be about….BLUE PENGUIN! Here is a drawing of somebody who also loves penguins.