Ink drawing of this week's Gerald Leslie Brockhurst #PortraitChallenge for StudioTeaBreak over on X/Twitter. I love this portrait, Dorette has such an enigmatic gaze and her hair makes a terrific shape. If you have an X account, check out lots of other people's studies of the same portrait, that hangs in the Watt Institution in Greenock, Scotland ( Read more... )

So here are the five Adventuremice books that you can already find in bookshops:


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Some reflections on Artificial Intelligence, its impact on illustrators
...and trying to answer the question: What do we do now?


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When you go to Bath, you expect to see a lot of Regency grandeur. Have a look at our event venue in the Assembly Rooms, you could easily imagine Jane Austen's characters gathered there for a ball. Did Elizabeth Bennett draw pictures of Pedro the mouse on her dance card? Perhaps?


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I was excited when I found out my co-author Philip Reeve and I would get to do our Adventuremice event for Marlborough Lit Fest in their fancy main room at the Town Hall! Here's an ace photo by official festival photographer Ben Phillips:


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Since I last blogged, Philip Reeve and I had a new book come out! Presenting the fifth in our highly-illustrated series, Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon. And you can find out more about it here on our website, complete with activities and videos!


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I've been meaning to write a proper long blog post about my trip to Alaska, but for now, I'll post this video of some things I made while I was there.

My auntie had collected lots of second-hand bowls for me to draw on, and my dad and Stuart sanded them down for me. My auntie drew on one, too!

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For the last two days, my co-author Philip Reeve and I have been visiting four different schools, in the Budleigh Salterton and Exmouth areas, as a schools outreach programme for Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. The days were action-packed! The first day was UK Election Day, so Philip and I were at the polling stations as soon as they opened, ( Read more... )

Big thanks to The Grove primary school in Totnes for hosting our Reeve & McIntyre Adventuremice visit today! Here's teacher Mrs John (Shanaz John) who looked after us (thanks, Shanaz!), and drew this rather splendid picture of Pedro along with us.


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There's always a strange transition time between when we're hard at work making our books - I've been painting long hours at my desk in the studio to meet a print deadline for Adventuremice Book 5 - and when we take the SHOW ON THE ROAD and meet the people who actually read our books ( Read more... )