Soaked

Soaked! This is a collage of bits and pieces of imagery I have already made.

Yorkshire Postcards

Here are a selection of Yorkshire postcards showing off some delightful local sayings and expressions.

Food book

Now my animal alphabet is done and dusted I am making a factual (ish) book on food. It will be aimed at adults but in a playful kiddie way like before.
Here are a few of my initial thought and images I have been playing around with - it has been a very sticky, sugary, greasy day!

A Big Mac takes 6 hours of solid walking to burn off

A Full English breakfast contains over half your daily salt intake

 The FDA allows up to 60 insect fragments per 100g of chocolate

 A can of cola has 10 tsp of sugar

 Corn is used to make a syrup sweeter than sugar

 Dohnuts are 25% oil

Honey never goes off

A hot dog can legally contain 30% fat and 10% water

 Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish

Book

My completed Animal ABC's book with a few sample pages 

Some more facts

B is for Bull

Bulls don't mind the colour red

H is for Hamster

Hamsters like to eat crickets

J is for Jellyfish

Jellyfish are 90% water

L is for Lemur

Mouse lemurs are one of the smallest primates, standing between 10-14cm high

O is for Ostrich

Ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain

P is for Porcupine

Porcupines can float in water

V is for Vulture

Vultures urinate on themselves to cool down

W is for Walrus

Walrus's use their tusks to break breathing holes in ice from below the surface

Animal facts

A is for Ants

Ants can lift 50 times their own body weight

E is for Eels

Eels can tie themselves in knots

G is for Giraffe

Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any animal

I is for Iguana

By some unknown means an iguana can end its own life

K is for Kangaroo

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

S is for Scallop

Scallops have 35 blue eyes

Animals

One very frightened cat

A watery grave

Dogs

This is an initial idea for a poster on dog breeds. Once it's finalised I am going to screen print it. 

Animal Idioms

My next little self-set project is to illustrate and make a book about animal idioms. Here are some of my initial rough ideas.

Dog Eat Dog

Hair of the dog